• Our largest production each year is our Summer Shakespeare Production. Due to his name recognition and links to English education, Shakespeare and his plays are a gateway into communities with little or no professional live theatre within the area. This flagship production each season affords our organization the opportunity to prove artistic excellence and the financial stability to later produce non-classical texts and share the diverse array of styles, voices, and stories our medium has to offer.
    • Brown Box acknowledges that the history of Eurocentrism in Shakespeare often leads to exclusion and racism within our industry. We will combat this by:
      • Reimagining Shakespeare’s texts and moving away from a puritanical approach
      • Never producing or including text that is racist; Brown Box does not subscribe to the ideology that we are bound to perform and justify even the most out-of-date and/or out of touch components of the Bard’s canon. We refuse to propagate racism under the guise of classics purism or a historical defense. 
  • Brown Box stands by its equitable payment standards for all artists. Brown Box guarantees that no contractor will receive proportionately more favorable financial compensation than other artists in the same tier of employment. If the stipend provided to one member of a tier increases for any reason, the stipend of all artists under that tier contract will be raised to match. Click HERE to see our full payment protocol.