Many Major Theaters Believe in Color Blind Casting (Except When
It Comes to People of Color)  Chuck Mee is all about fairness.
The legendary American playwright believes there's no such thing
as an original play, and invites visitors to his website to
"remix" his work. He also has some pretty visionary ideas about
casting his shows. He writes:  Casting Note: In my plays, as in
life itself, the female romantic lead can be played by a woman
in a wheelchair. The male romantic lead can be played by an
Indian man. And that is not the subject of the play. There is
not a single role in any one of my plays that must be played by
a physically intact white person. And directors should go very
far out of their way to avoid creating the bizarre, artificial
world of all intact white people, a world that no longer exists
where I live, in casting my plays.  This quote particularly
resonates with Asian actors, who are historically
underrepresented on the stage. Many say a regular refrain from
theaters is that they believe in