ETA Launches Effort to Reclaim the 'Theater Kid'

Recently, a national theater organization launched a pop-up campaign to push back against the increasingly pejorative use of the term "theater kid," galvanizing its member base in support of its advocacy goals.

On Dec. 21, The New York Times published an article titled "Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-to Political Insult.” The story showed how the term has been used to criticize New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) and other Democratic lawmakers.

The story naturally caught the attention of the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), which represents theater-education professionals and supports middle- and high-school theater students through its awards and foundation programs. 

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.