| re: In Praise of James Morgan | |
| Last Edit: JereNYC 10:58 am EDT 10/15/24 | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 10:50 am EDT 10/15/24 | |
| In reply to: re: In Praise of James Morgan - portenopete 09:22 am EDT 10/15/24 | |
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| I interpreted Morgan's statement to mean that he was making the decision to resign and step away because his health challenges were becoming too much to handle while running the company. Perhaps he does not have a history of such behavior in the past, but he may have been worried that such outbursts would be more frequent in future and did not wish to subject his staff to that. And, though he does not say so specifically, he may have been seeing the signs of such things popping up in his personal life and had a sense of no longer being able to completely separate the behavior he exhibits in his free time from the professional behavior needed in the office. This incident may have been the shocking wake up call that he needed. Not that verbal abuse is acceptable anywhere or any time, of course, but the way one acts with friends and family is necessarily different from the way one must act in a professional environment, especially for the public face of a company. Clearly, whatever happened and whatever was said, it was bad enough that McIntyre felt the need to resign, rather than address it privately or publicly within the company. People, in general, in the theatre business have a long history of accepting abusive behavior from those higher up in the food chain. Sometimes it's because they're considered geniuses and we accept asshole behavior as the price of working with genius. Sometimes it's because we're so used to taking orders/direction that we don't notice when the line is crossed or don't feel able to address it. Sometimes, it's just that we love what we do so much that we see working with assholes as the price to do what we love (and I'm writing here generally...I'm not calling Morgan an asshole). In any case, corporate American has been reckoning with these issues for ages and it's high time that the creative community followed suit. There is NO excuse ever for abusive behavior. Period. No one should have to put up with that just to do their job. I have such respect for Morgan for recognizing the issue and addressing it appropriately, rather than hunkering down and denying. We need more of this kind of personal accountability. |
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