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Art & Soul Consulting — A Production Standard
A production standard that ensures every performer's hair is planned for, budgeted, and protected — not outsourced, not othered, not left to the performer to solve. Launched April 2026. Quarterly cohorts now forming.
The Standard
Like lighting. Like costume. Like sound. Every other department has a lead, a budget, a timeline, and documented protocols. Hair doesn't — and the labor falls on Black performers and performers of color to fill that gap.
Texture Ready changes that. It's not about finding the right specialist. It's about building the infrastructure so textured hair is planned for, regardless of who's in the chair — before the first rehearsal, before casting is complete, before tech week.
A production is Texture Ready when the system works. Not when one exceptional person made it work.
A Texture Ready production has:
"Qualified isn't a person. It's a production."
How We Work Together
For Hair Leads & Production Staff
The professional standard, taught directly. Your Hair Lead — whether that's a costume designer, ASM, or wardrobe supervisor — learns what it means to be Texture Ready and earns the credential to prove it.
Investment
$797
Per seat — quarterly cohorts
For Productions & Organizations
We assess your production against the Texture Ready standard — your existing processes, staffing, budget approach, and gaps — and deliver a custom toolkit built for your specific production. Ready to implement.
Investment
From $3,000
Theater from $3,000 · Film/TV/Commercial from $5,000
For Productions in Implementation
You have the toolkit. Your Hair Lead has the training. Now you need support executing it. We coach your Hair Lead through implementation — in your specific production context, with your cast, calendar, and team.
Investment
From $5,000
Theater from $5,000 · Film/TV from $10,000
Concierge always follows a completed Diagnostic. Both can be scoped together.
Private & Institutional
Private cohorts deliver the full Texture Ready curriculum exclusively for your organization or team — same standard, same credential, scoped to your context and schedule. Available for institutions, peer groups of organizations, and production teams ahead of a major project.
The Path
Your Hair Lead gets trained on the standard and earns the credential. They return to your production with the language and knowledge to advocate for what's needed.
We assess your production and build your custom operating system. You leave with every document you need — tailored to your specific cast, calendar, and team.
For productions that want support executing the toolkit. We coach your Hair Lead through implementation so the system runs — and your team owns it going forward.
Who This Is For
Producing Theater
You're casting diversely and your hair infrastructure hasn't caught up. The labor is landing on performers. You have no documentation if something goes wrong — and the industry just watched what that costs.
Film / TV / Commercial
The SAG-AFTRA contract uses the word "qualified" with no legal definition. On a commercial shoot, one bad hair day is a brand crisis your client calls you about. Texture Ready defines qualified — and documents that you met the standard.
Production Staff
You're holding the hair work but you don't have the framework, the language, or the authority to do it right. You're improvising around a gap that shouldn't be yours alone to fill.
Production Operations
You own the call sheet. You know maintenance time for textured hair isn't on it. You know there's no protocol when something goes wrong mid-run. You're improvising around a gap that belongs in the production — not on your shoulders.
Casting & Representation
You're placing diverse talent into productions with no hair infrastructure. You have no leverage to fix it and no language to name it before your client signs. Texture Ready gives you both.
Legal
Your clients are operating under SAG-AFTRA contract language that uses the word "qualified" with no legal definition. The ART lawsuit shows what that gap looks like in litigation. Texture Ready closes it — and gives you something to point to.
Training & Education
You're training the next generation of production professionals and none of them are learning this before they graduate. Their first job will expose the gap — and the performers they work with will absorb it.
Performer?
Before you sign, you have the right to ask if a production is Texture Ready. We've built the questions for you.
5 Questions to Ask →The Cohort
The professional standard, taught directly. Three sessions. Six hours. Your Hair Lead leaves with the knowledge, the framework, and a Texture Ready credential they carry into every production.
Cohort 1 — April 28, 2026 · Cohort 2 — July 2026 · $797 per seat
Private cohorts available for organizations and production teams. Inquire here.
Every path to Texture Ready begins with a conversation. Tell us where your production is and we'll tell you where the gaps are.
Questions? Reach us at kiratroilo@artandsoulconsulting.com
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