How Playwrights Horizons Led to New Backstage Profile Changes
When Playwrights Horizons’ casting director Alaine Alldaffer began the casting process for Taylor Mac’s upcoming play “Hir,” she expected to do something similar to what she’s been doing for years. “Originally I was thinking, I’ll throw in a few wild cards here and there and see what happens,” she says. But Mac was adamant that the actor playing the trans character in h…