Hello EST Family,
The Transition Team is excited to send out our first newsletter to update you on where we are during this time of change with our company. We want you to know that we are still in the process of organizing as a team, and in order to make sure that the sharing of information is equitable, across the community, we as a team have agreed to not have side conversations about our meetings, and in the interest of transparency, we as a team have agreed to release all information together in a uniform way. We are in the process of organizing ourselves (as recommended by Rebecca Kelly G), and we are in the early stages of reading and talking through pages of EST's Equity & Justice Report.
We would like to share with you the pages of RKG’s report that we will be reading and talking through as a team, and we encourage you to follow along.
Please see our list below:
We have as a collective started to read the Transition Team Section of the Report (Pages 43-47 & Bottom of 48 & Bottom of 49-50)
We are reading and will be discussing over the Community Feedback (Page 44)
We are also reading the Artistic Director section (pages 28-30) and the Executive Director Section (pages 30-33) *The goal here is to provide a vision for the AD & ED so that we can as a team create job descriptions that are tailored to the needs of EST.
We are also reading the shared leadership section (pages 38-41)
Due to the enormous responsibility of the list above, we as a team have decided to meet weekly.
We would like to acknowledge that a draft of our Newsletter was preemptively sent out to some of the members of EST before it was finalized by the group, and we would like to assure everyone that moving forward everyone will receive all correspondences monthly at the same time.
If you have any questions regarding this newsletter, or any section of the reading material, please do not hesitate to email us at questions@ensemblestudiotheatre.org or you can reach out and email your individual representative.
*Please note that your questions will be brought to the Transition Team and the Team together as a whole will answer any questions that you may have*
Sincerely,
Eliza Beckwith, Focus Group
France-Luce Benson, Playwrights Unit
Erin Cherry, Member Council Co-Chair
Bjorn Dupaty, Black Affinity Group
Jahna-Ferron Smith, Youngblood
Linsay Firman, Staff
Lynnette R. Freeman, EST Membership
Russell G. Jones, Board
Lou Liberatore, Members Council
Mariel Sanchez, Staff Affinity Group
Elizabeth Van Dyke, EST Membership