On June 5th, 2019, Xavier Cortada led attendees of the Theatre Communications Group’s national conference in “DO NOT OPEN.” 

“As we stare straight into the face of the largest existential threat humanity has ever endured—ecosystem collapse, mass extinction—at this very precipice of catastrophe, I could not be more hopeful, no more joyous,” Cortada said. “Because there are artists in this room—there are agents of change who through culture will see us through.”