SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY
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Mission Statement
We envision a future where storytellers from diverse backgrounds have access to the opportunities and support they need to produce plays and grow within a state-of-the-art theater for an engaged audience representative of Los Angeles. The mission of Skylight Theatre Company is to: • Seek, champion, develop and produce new works, • Welcome and empower the people that create them, • Introduce plays new to Los Angeles, and • Engage a diverse community of theatergoers.
About This Cause
In 2011, Skylight reinvented itself by committing to seek, develop, and produce original new plays that meaningfully reflect the diversity of Los Angeles, expand mainstream theater, and spark conversation. Leadership realized that maximizing opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color ensures that a variety of perspectives and creative voices are heard. However, producing plays, even excellent ones, isn’t enough to substantively alter our theater ecology if a system that continuously nurtures diverse playwrights to advance their work toward professional production isn’t in place. Skylight’s producing and development approach has been successful; plays and writers we’ve developed are regularly being produced nationally. Just since 2017, two Skylight world premieres have been produced Off-Broadway: Ross Golan’s “The Wrong Man,” a musical about wrongful incarceration (2019, Newman Mills Theater, 13 award nominations), and “Church & State,” a gun control story by Jason Odell Williams (2017, New World Stages; 65 productions), and in 2024 "Bronco Billy - The Musical" will open in London's West End. Equity, diversity, inclusion and access are integral to what we do and how we interact with others. We offer ASL INTERPRETED PERFORMANCES for season productions (unusual for intimate theatre), and regularly meet or exceed Skylight’s EDI benchmarks for productions in front of and behind the curtain. The TICKET INITIATIVE improves access by providing subsidized tickets to fully staged productions to help ensure that the play is performed for the audience it was created for, and that tickets are priced so that theater isn’t just for special occasions. ARTIST WELLBEING is a priority. Recognizing that artists have always struggled with overworking (especially acute for those who are caregivers or work multiple jobs), production/rehearsal hours have been adjusted shortening the workweek and hours worked per day. EQUITABLE REPRESENTATION - ACTION ITEMS FOR CHANGE: We want Skylight to become a place of cultural equity. In 2020, after twelve-weeks of detailed internal evaluation and three candid assessment sessions by an artist cohort of 15 BIPOC artists, the Skylight staff created “Action Items For Change,” a document that outlines priorities to improve Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in all areas of the organization. We don't just "put on plays," we create opportunities, help launch careers, and sometimes we change minds.