Actor and director Shermona Mitchell first felt called to the stage because she believed it was a place she could be her full self. Over the past two decades, she has worked on nearly every stage in Seattle, always advocating for equity and access as she makes her indelible contribution to the city’s rich history of Black theater.
“Clubs shutting down may not immediately lead to trafficking,” says one advocate. “But it immediately leads to all sorts of other vulnerable situations.”
