So I am a mixed race, a millennial from the Midwest.

Like you, I majored in theater, got my master's degree in Boston,

and was finally at a point where I could actually live off of theater

with some supplemental work.

So I quit my job.

I was working as a genius or as a mobile technician at Apple,

at an Apple store in Cambridge side, in Cambridge and Massachusetts.

And so I eagerly anticipated the year with the five contracts lined up and enough planned

income to actually sustain and even save money.

This was December of 2019.

So as you can imagine, the year didn't go as planned.

I found myself without contracts and broke because of the pandemic, without, with the whole industry

utterly crushed by COVID in a way that no other entertainment-related industry was, at least

as far as the arts, it's concerned. So it is not recovered. In the subsequent five years,

I've lived, live theater has become an artistic wasteland. I've tried to keep doing shows, but when things began reopening

the environment and the community that I remembered had been transformed into this radical

hate-filled tribe of virtue signaling ideologically captured zealots. There is no more storytelling.

Everything has a message. Everyone has an agenda. And the idea that anyone in the community

would disagree with the

opinion of the mainstream urban monoculture has become absurd. They assume you agree with their

absurdities, all of them. If you're in theater, you hate Trump. You believe in intersectionality,

in critical race theory, in sterilizing and feminine boys, and more masculine and more masculine girls i do shows and the

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