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To Whom it May Concern,              

I am writing this letter because I need to bring attention to the racism that the faculty at Circle in The Square Theatre School has towards their students. There have been too many instances where the faculty has demonstrated racist behavior towards their students making it a truly unsafe place for learning. Kevin McGuire, Alan Langdon, Sara Louise Lazarus, Joe Baker and Beth Falcone are teachers who need to be held accountable for their actions. 

Teachers should never tell their students the only roles available to them are terrorist roles. Teachers should not actively allow White students to do scenes that should be played by people of color and they should not allow White students to say the “N” word to play a character they’d otherwise never play. Sara Louise Lazarus has been accused of saying the “N” word towards students, and Joe Baker has made several inappropriate comments about blackface, and other racist remarks towards a Black student. 

It took me a while to realize what was actually going on and I now realize it was just racism. It is hypocritical of Circle in The Square Theatre School to make posts about Black lives solely for propaganda, when time and time again their faculty has shown that the safety of their students is not a concern. As a former student of Circle in The Square Theatre School, I can assure you that I will never recommend this school to anyone. The teachers I have listed must be fired, in order to ensure the safety of the students. Due to their overt racism, they’ve proven that they were never fit to be teachers.

— Anonymous