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How creative groups navigate success without compromising vision

Our theater company started as four friends who wanted to make weird, experimental work, but as we've gotten more successful and started getting grants, we've unconsciously begun making safer choices, and I think we're all afraid to be the one who says we're selling out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External validation and resources have created invisible pressure toward conventionality that no one wants to acknowledge or address.

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