What this is
A small, live, working session — held virtually so the people who need to be in the room can actually be in the room. In two hours, you'll build a real foundation in textured hair for stage and set, walk through the Texture Ready minimum-standards framework, and get hands-on with Art & Soul's new interactive budgeting tool — the only tool of its kind built specifically for hair needs in production.
You'll leave with a completion badge and a clear picture of what designing for textured hair actually looks like when it's done right. Not after the incident. Before it.
This session will be recorded. The recording is made available exclusively to registered attendees who complete the full two hours — it will not be distributed otherwise.
What you'll walk away with
- A real foundation in textured hair for stage & set What textured hair is, what working with it under production pressure requires, what qualifies someone to do it — and why "she said it was fine" is not a standard your organization can stand behind.
- A full walk-through of the Texture Ready checklist The minimum-standard framework currently being adopted by organizations including Boston Lyric Opera — organized around the four decisions that actually determine outcomes: who you hire, when you plan, how you budget, and what you do when something goes wrong.
- Hands-on time with Art & Soul's new interactive budgeting tool The only tool of its kind built specifically for hair needs in stage and set production. You'll see what realistic, equity-centered budgeting looks like — and you'll know how to use it before you leave.
- A completion badge Issued by Black Hair on Stage & Set™ / Art & Soul Consulting. A signal that you were in the room, you engaged with the material, and you know what your organization is now expected to know.
Your instructor
Kira Troilo
Founder, Black Hair on Stage & Set™ · Principal, Art & Soul Consulting
In 2023, Kira led a live workshop in Boston in partnership with the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, training leaders from The Huntington, Umbrella Arts Center, SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage, and more. In 2024, she published Black Hair On Stage, bringing that framework to a wider audience.
Her minimum-standards work is currently being adopted by Boston Lyric Opera and Walnut Hill School for the Arts. The Black Hair on Stage & Set™ toolkit is a recommended employer resource of Actors' Equity Association. She was recently quoted in the Boston Globe on the state of textured hair in American theater.
She built this framework because the field needed one. She's teaching it because the people in charge deserve to actually understand it.
