Black Hair On Stage & Set

Textured hair safety — operationalized for production.

Most organizations already prohibit racial discrimination. Many already promise dignity and safety at work.

But without a shared production standard for textured hair, teams are left to improvise under pressure, and Black performers carry the risk.

Black Hair on Stage & Set™ gives you the missing operational layer: clear minimum standards & an implementation kit your team can actually use in real rehearsal rooms, tech weeks, and training programs.

Reviewed by Natural Hair Weekly • Aligned with Natural Hair Anywhere verified provider standards

  • Start Free: Texture-Ready Starter Pack

    $
    /year
    $0
    The “start here” bundle: a fast adoption checklist plus a 5-day micro-course that shows you what to change before it becomes a tech-week emergency.
    Get the Starter Pack

  • Production-Ready Toolkit

    $
    /year
    $3500
    /year
    The full annual license for organizations ready to adopt a textured-hair standard with implementation tools, budgeting guidance, shared language, and training.
    License the Toolkit

Good intentions aren’t a plan.

Across rehearsal rooms, tech weeks, and training programs, the same pattern keeps repeating:

  • textured-hair needs are discovered too late
  • unqualified hands are assigned because “hair is hair”
  • performers are pressured to “make it work” under schedule pressure
  • support is inconsistent from performer to performer
  • pain, breakage, scalp irritation, and unequal labor get treated like unfortunate accidents instead of preventable systems failures

This is not just a culture problem. It is an operational readiness problem.

And operational readiness is fixable.

Black Hair On Stage & Set does this:

Prevents harm before it happens

Textured hair becomes a production responsibility, not a backstage scramble.

Makes planning and budgeting concrete

Hair needs are accounted for in advance with real tools, real timing, and real staffing logic.

Reduces crisis spending and fire drills

With pre-casting budgeting, post-casting true-up, qualified staffing decisions, continuity tools, and a clear stop-the-line escalation path.

Builds shared language across the team

The toolkit and Black Hair On Stage ebook help leaders, educators, and production staff understand not just what to do, but why it matters.

Texture-Ready Starter Pack (Free)

The Texture-Ready Starter Pack gives you a fast, practical entry point.

Inside the Starter Pack:


1) The Texture-Ready Checklist
A fast adoption checklist that helps you install a baseline in ~30 minutes:

2) Texture-Ready in 5 (email micro-course)
Five short emails that teach your team how to prevent the common failure points before you’re in crisis mode:

  • Day 1: Why “don’t discriminate” fails without an SOP (what discrimination looks like operationally)
  • Day 2: Qualified expertise: what it means and how to staff it without blowing budget
  • Day 3: The planning trigger that prevents tech-week hair emergencies
  • Day 4: Consent + escalation: what to do when something hurts (without retaliation)
  • Day 5: The 1-production pilot plan: pick a tier, assign roles, train, debrief, improve
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License the Production-Ready SOP Toolkit

The operating system for textured-hair readiness in rehearsal, tech, and run.

This is the paid offer. Not a vague “resource.”
Not a symbolic statement.

A minimum operating standard plus a ready-to-use implementation suite that turns “we value equity” into concrete planning, budgeting, staffing, and escalation decisions.

When you license Black Hair on Stage & Set™, you get the operational tools to make textured hair plan-able, staff-able, and budget-able before casting and throughout the run. 

What’s Included in the Annual License:

  • Core SOP + Minimum Standard

    Your baseline policy, roles, decision rights, planning triggers, and escalation path — so everyone knows what the standard is, what safe practice requires, and who owns what.

  • Production-ready templates your team can use immediately

    A full suite of working tools for intake and consent, hair planning, vendor qualification, pre-casting budgeting, post-casting true-up, timeline planning, continuity tracking, backstage escalation, and post-run debrief.

  • Budgeting tools that stop the scramble before it starts

    Use the Pre-Casting Hair Budget Predictor to set a reserve before auditions, then use the True-Up After Casting tool to turn real performer needs into staffing decisions, schedule touchpoints, and actual budget planning.

  • Black Hair On Stage ebook

    The literacy and context guide behind the standard — designed to help leadership, educators, and production teams build shared language, understand the stakes, and recognize what harm, bias, and poor planning look like in practice.

  • Run-ready guides for the real-world moments teams fumble

    Plain-English textured hair basics, red-flag guidance, scripts for leadership/design/marketing, dressing-room procurement guidance, and completed examples that show what strong implementation actually looks like.

  • Leadership and board tools that help adoption stick

    Board-facing FAQ, budget memo insert, policy language, and a short leadership script — so this doesn’t die in committee or live forever as “we should really do something.”

  • Live virtual training + recording access

    Active licensees receive access to the live virtual training, with the recording available afterward for current licensees who can’t attend live or want to use it later for internal rollout and onboarding.

  • Licensed internal use across your site

    Store the materials on your internal drive, copy/paste language into handbooks and production packets, duplicate templates for each show, and use the suite in internal onboarding and training while your license is active.

  • Ongoing updates

    The toolkit is designed as a living system, with updated materials made available during the license term so your team isn’t relying on stale guidance.

How Licensing Works

  • Step One: Choose Your Tier

    Select the license that fits your organization size and structure.

  • Step Two: Get the full suite

    You receive the Minimum Standard, Production-Ready Toolkit, Black Hair On Stage ebook, training access, and updated materials.

  • Step Three: Use it in production

    Your team installs the standard using the templates, checklists, budgeting tools, and internal language.

  • Step Four: Train and reinforce

    Attend the live training or use the recording to support rollout, onboarding, and internal alignment.
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Two Simple Tiers

Year-to-year licenses. Includes updated materials.

  • Standard

    $
    /year
    $3,500
    /year
    For small-midsized orgs, K–12 programs, community theatres, and small colleges. Includes full kit + access to annual training.
    Get A Standard License

  • Institutional

    $
    /year
    $7,500
    /year
    For large orgs, LORT theaters, universities, and conservatories. Includes full kit + access to annual training.
    Get An Institutional License

Who This Is For

If you’ve ever thought, “We didn’t know until late,” or “We tried our best but it got messy,” this is for you.

  • Theaters, touring productions, and producing organizations
  • University theater programs and performing arts high schools
  • Production managers, costume/hair departments, educators, stage management teams, and leadership

If your organization produces work with Black and textured-hair performers, this is not edge-case planning. It is baseline readiness.

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Grounded in textured-hair safety and real production practice

Built for production teams who need something practical, usable, and clear.

  • Natural Hair Weekly Approved
    Reviewed Natural Hair Weekly for safe, effective, & ethical textured hair care
  • NaHa Approved
    Aligned with Natural Hair Anywhere verified provider standards

What People Say

  • "DEI work in the theatre so often feels perfunctory… Kira’s philosophy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and artistry allowed us to… deepen our work and enhance our collaboration…"

    Will Roland, Actor

  • "Kira is a fantastic Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) consultant! … I had never worked with an EDI consultant before and I don’t think I could ever go back to not having one on a show!"

    Corbin Bleu, Actor/Singer

  • "Culturally sensitive work can be just as emotionally fraught… Art and Soul's approach really helps foster an environment where people can ask for what they need, work safely, and process afterward."

    Elizabeth Ramirez, Stage Manager & AEA Deputy

  • "Art & Soul's presentation and demo on 'Black Hair On Stage' in 2023 was SO helpful."

    Sharman Altshuler, Artistic Director, Moonbox Productions

You Have Questions. We Have Answers.

Ready to stop improvising textured hair under production pressure?

Install a real standard. Give your team the tools to use it. Protect your performers before the crisis happens.

Questions first? Email hello@artandsoulconsulting.com

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