Broadway On Tour Youth Theater

OUR HISTORY:

Broadway On Tour was founded in 1989 by Daniel Halkyard with the goal of providing a professional environment for children and young adults to learn theater arts and performance. The theater has been in continuous operation ever since at various locations around Orange County and, has continued to improve the quality of instruction and performance every year. We have a volunteer board of directors to handle show production and administration. Our artistic staff for each show are hired as contractors, there is no permanent overhead. We properly license all shows we perform and have a long term relationship with our performance venue.

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OUR MISSION:

We strive to provide Orange County and the surrounding area with affordable live theatre for young actors and families to enjoy by giving aspiring performers a safe place to learn and explore the arts while receiving the highest quality theatre training and being a part of an experience that mirrors our community through diversity, inclusion, fairness, and opportunity.


OUR DIVERSITY POLICY:

Reflecting our World through Diversity 
Broadway on Tour (BOT) is committed to creating a safe space free of to foster the growth and creativity of Orange County and surrounding area youth in a theatrical environment. We believe that every person deserves to be treated with respect, equality, and love regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, beliefs, or gender. Our goal is to celebrate the diversity of our world through the creation of art, and to also reflect these values within our organization. BOT strives for our stages, board, and audience to mirror the wonderfully diverse community of Orange County. We advocate the “free to be Me” culture, so that BOT can truly be a safe space for all. 
 
We commit to:
• Inspire community members to audition for our shows, volunteer, or join our board and creative team in order to tell stories through theater that  reflect our world. 
• Create a space where our performers, volunteers, patrons, board, and creative teams hold one another up with love, kindness, in hope that all generations that come after will see one another as equals regardless of race, ability, identity, or religious affiliation. 
• Promote diversity within our board, performers, creative teams, production teams, and audiences, to create opportunities which advance BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth, whether backstage or onstage. 
• Foster a creative environment through diversity to ensure fairness, justice, and inclusivity in our policies and procedures.
 
Our efforts to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity include: 
• Discounted community rates and supplied select community groups with complimentary seats to each of our productions.
• Open captioning at every performance to ensure that our deaf and hard of hearing audience members can access shows.
• Sensory friendly adjustments to accommodate neurodiverse theatre patrons.

• Open casting for all roles regardless of race, color, gender, or socio-economic status. 
• Casting of youth performers to include those who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) or LGBTQ+
• Our board is open to include those who identify as women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) or LGBTQ+. Our current board is 90% female and includes members of the Asian and LGBTQ+ community.