WAA’s Board of Directors plays a vital role in our capacity to serve you — our members. Our board supports us in fulfilling our mission to advance excellence in the performing arts, through innovative thinking and ground-breaking initiatives, by anticipating the future needs of the field, and through sound governance and stewardship.

Congratulations to our three (3) 2025 WAA Service Awardees, whose commitment(s) to serving their hometown of Los Angeles with compassion, creativity, and urgency in times of crisis and need was nothing short of inspiring.

WAA 19; credit: Corporate Close Ups

Our parks and streets are transformed into festive landscapes filled with Juneteenth cookouts and Pride parades and we get to see what the United States is truly made of – people of all colors and backgrounds partying together. But underneath the veneer of block parties and family reunions…

WAA 2024; credit: Victor Karam

Vijay Gupta; credit: Kat Bawden

Beginning today, we present to you Trying Times, a collection of resources that have helped our community navigate The Pandemic, The Great Recession, A Racial Reckoning, and more. Over the next five months, we will release past conference sessions, performances, articles, and other resources that offer important lessons for the present.