Who Cares about COVID Safe Theater? Who is thinking about it and talking about it? Who is producing it? This ever growing collection of essays, videos. and organizations features our collective knowledge and feelings on this topic.
VIDEOS
Covid Monologues: Where science meets theatre to build community resilience and relevancy for theatre in unusual times.
Single Carrot Theater
https://howlround.com/happenings/covid-monologues-0
https://howlround.com/happenings/covid-monologues
The Inciting Incident: Art Activism, Social Justice, and Youth Theatre after COVID
Panel Discussion with Hallie Gordon, Barbara Pitts McAdams, Michael Rohd, and Willa Taylor
https://howlround.com/happenings/inciting-incident-art-activism-social-justice-and-youth-theatre-after-covid
Coping with COVID: Livestreaming for Artists
An online workshop with Creative Capital to help artists better understand how to livestream their work to virtual audiences
https://howlround.com/happenings/coping-covid-livestreaming-artists
Traditional Arts: The Forgotten COVID Casualty?
Moderated by Soultari Amin Farid, with panelists Khin Maung Htwe, Alena Murang, and Jacob Boehme
https://howlround.com/happenings/traditional-arts-forgotten-covid-casualty
Livestreaming a Marathon: A HowlRound for India
A 24-hour marathon of Covid-19 talks with the global theatre community
https://howlround.com/happenings/livestreaming-marathon-howlround-india
How Do We Go On? Essay by E. M. Lewis https://howlround.com/how-do-we-go
It Was Always Possible: Centering the Leaders Who Were Here All Along (ASL & Captioned)
an #ArtistResource talk with Rachel Spencer Hewitt (PAAL); Claudia Alick (CallingUP); Ashley Hanson (Department of Public Transformation); and more https://howlround.com/happenings/it-was-always-possible-centering-leaders-who-were-here-all-along-asl-captioned
Producing In Pandemic
100 hours of theater artists sharing how they are producing in pandemic
https://callingupjustice.com/producing-in-pandemic/
ARTICLES
Two Long COVID-focused performances show the power of art for reflection and solidarity by Betsy Ladyzhets https://thesicktimes.org/2025/04/29/two-long-covid-focused-performances-show-the-power-of-art-for-reflection-and-solidarity/
How to Negotiate COVID Protections Essay by Ezra Tozian https://howlround.com/how-negotiate-covid-protections
Challenging the COVID Status Quo Essay by Ezra Tozian, Claudia Alick, Jon Jon Johnson https://howlround.com/challenging-covid-status-quo
We Can’t Build an Equitable Theatre While Ignoring COVID Essay by Taylor Leigh Lamb https://howlround.com/we-cant-build-equitable-theatre-while-ignoring-covid
COVID-19 is Killing Performers by Charles A. Waltz https://medium.com/@cdl.tuebingen/covid-19-is-killing-performers-a81d1cf209a2
Community Theatre Versus COVID-19: The Center’s Creative Comeback by Joe Tuosto https://medium.com/thegroundhog/community-theatre-versus-covid-19-the-centers-creative-comeback-e2d640362997
South Korea has proved that theatre can be Covid-safe and open for business by by Sammi Cannold https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/opinion/south-korea-has-proved-that-theatre-can-be-covid-safe-and-open-for-business
Greenfield, MA: Under the Stars by NoPro Newswire https://medium.com/no-proscenium/greenfield-ma-under-the-stars-a566ff44bf8f
Crowdsourcing Theatre Practice in a Time of COVID Essay by Elena Araoz, Barbara Fuchs https://howlround.com/crowdsourcing-theatre-practice-time-covid
What Theatre Do We Want to Return To? Essay by Mike Lew, Rehana Lew Mirza https://howlround.com/what-theatre-do-we-want-return
To Be a Long Hauler; or, If We Build It We Can Thrive Essay by Tania Richard https://howlround.com/be-long-hauler-or-if-we-build-it-we-can-thrive
The Ableist Effects of Creating “Post-Pandemic Theatre” During a Pandemic Essay by Allie Marotta https://howlround.com/ableist-effects-creating-post-pandemic-theatre-during-pandemic
ORGANIZATIONS
Protect the Heart of the Arts (PTHOTA) is a grassroots movement mobilizing love as a force for disability justice-led systems change.
Launched in October 2023, it has engaged over 100 volunteers across 10+ countries. Through social media campaigns, public events, national and independent media coverage, institutional advocacy and policy impact, the movement has reach reached 7+ million people, and influenced policy affecting 300,000+.Here is a selection of core actions exemplifying our approach: storytelling that sparks collective action, turning love into real-world change. https://protecttheheartofthearts.org
Theater in Quarantine
Home of the Obie and Drama league award winning digital performance laboratory, live-streaming from a closet measuring only 8 sq. feet.
https://www.theaterinquarantine.com/
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE C🪴VID A theatre rhizome for COVID-impacted artists.
https://linktr.ee/wakeupandsmellthecovid
The Show Must Go Online Their first show went live on March 19th 2020, just two days after the West End shut down due to Covid19
https://robmyles.co.uk/theshowmustgoonline