“Theater Latte Da’s commitment to nurturing new work is rooted in our desire to help create a canon of musical theatre works that reflect the demographics and the diversity of our country and to produce work that shares with our audiences the aesthetics and the perspectives of a multiplicity of voices.  It’s clear to us that, if that is our goal, we need create more pathways for women and artists of color. The Next Generation Commission is designed to seek out those voices and provide them with the support necessary for their talents to be recognized and nurtured and their stories to be told”