Sep 29, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
What does sustainability actually look like backstage on Broadway? Molly Braverman, Executive Director of the Broadway Green Alliance, joins Zena and Mark to break down how theatre's culture of…
Molly BravermanGuestZena HarrisHostMark RabinHostThat's one of the things we, we heard and kind of one of the early values that was set with um some of our guests that we've had on is um just this this sense of like you know we're going to be scrappy and conserve and think about how we can use this they were using this popsicle stick as many times as we can because we are on a tight budget and we have to think about these things And that all came from theater.
And so that was one of my questions was like, you know, with these tight budgets, how, you know, has that even been an opportunity for, you know, the sustainability component where you're like really having to like think about reuse? Yeah.
All of us, I'm sure, whether in our youth, you know, put on things in basements in theaters that maybe should have been condemned years ago, you know, with $4 gaff tape and a dream.
And I think that's exciting because it shows us that This isn't a constraint too far.
Oftentimes, sustainability, as you all know, gets such a bad rap of just being, we're going to say no to things.
You know, we're not going to argue that we want to build a set bigger than the proscenium and how dare you constrain me.
So I think that our scrappy roots are a huge advantage in reminding people that, in fact, this makes us better.
That's one of the things we, we heard and kind of one of the early values that was set with um some of our guests that we've had on is um just this this sense of like you know we're going to be scrappy and conserve and think about how we can use this they were using this popsicle stick as many times as we can because we are on a tight budget and we have to think about these things And that all came from theater.
And so that was one of my questions was like, you know, with these tight budgets, how, you know, has that even been an opportunity for, you know, the sustainability component where you're like really having to like think about reuse? Yeah.
All of us, I'm sure, whether in our youth, you know, put on things in basements in theaters that maybe should have been condemned years ago, you know, with $4 gaff tape and a dream.
And I think that's exciting because it shows us that This isn't a constraint too far.
Oftentimes, sustainability, as you all know, gets such a bad rap of just being, we're going to say no to things.
You know, we're not going to argue that we want to build a set bigger than the proscenium and how dare you constrain me.
So I think that our scrappy roots are a huge advantage in reminding people that, in fact, this makes us better.
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