Glover recalls a time this kind of insight fundamentally changed an audience's experience of a show he worked on.

The example that comes to mind is Jordan E. Cooper's Ain't No Mo, directed by Kumar Jewell.

At the end of the first scene, there was a montage of real-world events that happened to Black people in the U.S. between the time of President Obama's reign in the White House to now.

And one of the events that made its way into a design element was an instance of police brutality.

And I said to Kumar plainly that Black people who are going to be coming to see his production don't need to see an incident of police brutality whatsoever.

while they are in the theater.

Kamar agreed, and then that design element was struck from the production, and for the better.

Eric and Catherine faced a number of challenges as production got rolling, but armed with tools to mine the script for context, dramaturgs thrive