Meet the NYC Theater Teacher Who Stood Up to ‘Anti-Racist’ Activists at the Height of the Moral Panic of 2020

Earlier this year, while working as a visiting teaching artist at a New York City public high school, theater director Kevin Ray pitched a potential lecture about plays involving magical realism, since his students were reading a book of that genre at the time.

“They didn’t want that,” Ray told National Review. Instead, the teachers asked Ray to develop and teach a workshop on “Theater and Toxic Masculinity,” he said.