Vibrancy Theater is a theater company founded and run by students at Ohio University. We were born out of the outrage following the tragic murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020. During the following civil rights movements, my colleagues and I decided it was time we step up and create more equity for black and brown artists in Ohio University's School of Theatre, and thus Vibrancy was born.

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What we do is simple, but not easy: Uplifting and broadcasting the Black, Indigenous and People of Color in theatre at Ohio University and beyond. As Co-Artistic Director this year, I've had the honor to ring in history with our inaugural production, Absentia, written by Ohio's own alum, Olivia Matthews.

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As I sat in the house during one tech rehearsal, a lull fell in the break of working. On stage, one of the actors started removing her box braids while two technicians spoke Spanish to each other from across the theater. Both of these deeply cultured acts of subtly occurred fearlessly in front of the white members of the production team, the minority in the room. At that moment, I realized that we had achieved our goal and committed to myself to work as hard I can to continue to make theatre in spaces that felt that fearless, because it's where the best art is made.