A huge number of stars from Grey's Anatomy, the Marvel and DC cinematic universes, Hamilton, Orange is the New Black, Pose and more have come together as a group called 'The Ground We Stand On' to call out the theatre industry for racial inequality.

Sandra Oh, Sterling K Brown, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Issa Rae, Uzo Aduba, Viola Davis, Billy Porter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Danielle Brooks, among dozens upon dozens of others, have listed the ways in which people of colour have been affected by white privilege in the theatre, and demanded that changes be made.

The letter, titled 'We See You, White American Theatre', reads: "We have watched you un-challenge your white privilege, inviting us to traffic in the very racism and patriarchy that festers in our bodies, while we protest against it on your stages. We see you.

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"We have watched you amplify our voices when we are heralded by the press, but refuse to defend our aesthetic when we are not, allowing our livelihoods to be destroyed by a monolithic and racist critical culture. We see you.

"We have watched you inadequately compare us to each other, allowing the failure of entire productions to be attributed to decisions you forced upon us for the comfort of your theatres white patrons.

"When we demanded you live up to your own creeds, you cowered behind old racist laments of feeling threatened, and then discarded us along with the values you claim to uphold. We see you.

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"We have watched you attend one 'undoing racism workshop', espousing to funders you are doing the work, without any changes to your programming or leadership. You've been unwilling to even say the words 'anti-racism' to your boards out of fear of them divesting from your institutions, prioritising their privilege over our safety. We see you.

"We have watched you promote anti-Blackness again and again. We see you.

"We have watched you say things like 'I may be white, but Im a woman'. Or, 'I may be white, but I'm gay'. As if oppression isnt multi-layered. We see you. We have watched you exploit us, shame us, diminish us, and exclude us. We see you. We have always seen you. And now you will see us.

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"You are all a part of this house of cards built on white fragility and supremacy. And this is a house that will not stand.

"This ends TODAY. We are about to introduce you to yourself."

You can read the letter in full here.

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