Amy Steiger: “Not only do students recognize misogynist and colonialist language in acting textbooks — as well as an insistence on the gender binary that sometimes makes them wonder if there is room for them in theatre — they glean ideas about how theatre artists understand their own work and how students are expected to learn. Students’ role in the drama of the classroom is key to shaping and defining their position in American culture and the kind of work they produce within it. Have American actors ever been represented in textbooks as intellectuals, dissenters, or agents of change?” – HowlRound