I leave town for a week to get a much-needed vacation away from New York City, and to clear my head. And while I'm gone, what comes out? A continuation of the
Asian American Performers Action Coalition (which I wrote about last year
here and
here) 2012 survey of the racial breakdown of actors on Broadway and in the not-for-profit theater in New York City. The news was the numbers in the 2011-12 season.
And they were not pretty.
On Broadway, the casting breakdown was as followed:
- Caucasian: 74%
- African-American: 19%
- Latino: 2%
- Asian-American: 3%
For the top 16 not-for-profit theaters in New York City, the numbers were:
- Caucasian: 77%
- African-American: 16 %
- Latino: 3%
- Asian-American: 3%
- Others: 1%
