I cast a black actor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Albee Estate called and said I need to fire the black actor and replace him with a white one. The Edward Albee Estate needs to join the 21st Century.
Outcry built swiftly after Michael Streeter of the Shoebox Theatre posted the following message to Facebook: It is unlikely that many people in the theatre are unaware of the controversy that arose in mid-May, when a small Portland, Oregon theatre company proposed a production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with a black actor in the role of Nick.
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