Allie Trimm, who recently starred as Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, says she was censored from speaking out about Palestine because of the show’s producer Marc Platt and his own political views.
The 31-year-old Broadway actress spoke out in a 10-minute video posted to her Instagram account amid the controversy over Macklemore being dropped from Ed Sheeran‘s tour over his “Free Palestine” comments.
Allie has been an outspoken advocate for Palestinian people for years and she attempted to use her platform to speak out during her run in Wicked, but says she was told to stay silent. She starred as Glinda in the Broadway production from March 2025 to March 2026. She also was the understudy for the role for years before that.
“While I worked at Wicked, I was told that there’s an if and a then. If I keep talking about Palestine or Palestinian human rights on the internet, then I can expect the phones to stop ringing and all of the perks that should come with my contract to cease,” Allie began her video.
She continued, “This came after I had watched a full interview of Marc Platt, the producer of Wicked, talking to his son Jonah Platt on his podcast about how he deals with pro-Palestine employees in his workplace, which he says he doesn’t feel comfortable working with people with these views, he views as people who must not really know everything. In order to intervene, he pulls them aside individually, one-on-one between employer and employee, to try to influence their beliefs and what they end up saying or putting their name to. He says that some of those conversations are successful, and I assume that means that person no longer says anything, and some of them are unsuccessful. And in his words, that indicates ‘Jew hate,’ period.”
Keep scrolling to read the full transcript of her 10-minute video.
Last year, there was controversy amid Rachel Zegler‘s comments about Palestine while she was working on Platt‘s live-action adaptation of Snow White, with reports claiming that the producer tried to silence her too.
Marc Platt‘s son Ben Platt later spoke out about feeling “alienated” from his Jewish community and voiced support for Palestinian rights.
Read all of Allie Trimm’s comments below…
While I worked at Wicked, I was told that there’s an if and a then. If I keep talking about Palestine or Palestinian human rights on the internet, then I can expect the phones to stop ringing and all of the perks that should come with my contract to cease.
This came after I had watched a full interview of Marc Platt, the producer of Wicked, talking to his son Jonah Platt on his podcast about how he deals with pro-Palestine employees in his workplace, which he says he doesn’t feel comfortable working with people with these views, he views as people who must not really know everything. In order to intervene, he pulls them aside individually, one-on-one between employer and employee, to try to influence their beliefs and what they end up saying or putting their name to. He says that some of those conversations are successful, and I assume that means that person no longer says anything, and some of them are unsuccessful. And in his words, that indicates ‘Jew hate,’ period.
I will never forget that phrasing because it’s so strong. And as one of his employees, I never had a one-on-one meeting with him, and he never explicitly and personally tried to influence my beliefs. But I was subjected to monitoring, censorship, threats, and I don’t know how else to say this besides, like, the threat of pretextual termination.
So I was told verbatim that if I talk about this, then I won’t work again, and that the show can create any rationale to justify those choices to not work with me.
And this isn’t far off from what Marc says literally on this podcast. He talks about how he has the choice of who to work with and who to hire. And so when he knows too much about someone, like what they really believe and what maybe in their heart that doesn’t match with him, he ultimately gets to choose who gets a job.
And this makes me angry for a lot of obvious reasons.
We’re talking about genocide. We’re talking about the murder of 20,000 children in a handful of years, probably more. We’re talking about children being shot in the skull that I’ve seen X-rays of. We’re talking about humanitarian aid sites that are put up and then people are shot point-blank as they try to get food for their families. We’re talking about children who are carrying their siblings in plastic bags to try to honor their remains. We’re talking about things that I don’t think I ever imagined talking about or thinking about or seeing with my eyes.
And at the same time, we’re doing Wicked. So Marc talks on this podcast about Wicked, and it represents to him, you know, his Jewish values and his personal beliefs. And I was told that Wicked is neutral. I was told in the context of why I cannot talk about Palestine, and only Palestine, it’s because Wicked is neutral.
But that’s not true, because Marc, the employer of Wicked, is talking about explicitly tying Wicked to his personal values. And if he can do it, so can I. I also have personal values that stem in large part from Wicked.
Wicked taught me that above all else, the most important thing you can do to be true to yourself is to stand up in the fight for the people who are losing their rights when nobody else will, and especially when it costs you power or esteem or accolade or proximity to your dream wizard, you let that go in order to do what you know in your heart is right.
And I think that’s the moral of the show that I took from it and that I try to practice, because I love Wicked. I love Wicked so much.
But there’s a disconnect between what’s happening on this stage and what’s happening behind the scenes, because you can’t tell me that the producer gets to speak his opinions and then dangle your whole livelihood in front of you if you don’t acquiesce to exactly his political opinions and views.
And not only this, but I was singled out in this process. I was singled out, and I was the only employee that was subjected to this censorship and this monitoring.
And there were other employees, people who have had the exact same job position as me, so we are equals, right, who share their opinions on the internet that are not the same as mine necessarily, but that are the same as Marc Platt’s, and not get any sort of discipline, not get any sort of intervention or discipline.
That’s not right. That’s not fair. There is no equal employment policy. I mean, I was literally told I didn’t actually even break any policy at any point. It’s just that they wanted me to be quiet about this subject.
To go even further, to really try to understand the absurdity of this, I asked, “Can I talk about other things that I care about? Can I talk about LGBTQ rights and trans rights?” And they said, “Yeah, you can say whatever you want.”
And I said, “Well, what if I said, like, anti-things on the internet? Would that get me disciplined?” And they said, “You could say whatever you want.”
So they literally did not care what I said, except if it was about Palestine.
And I’m fired up about this because I was rereading my notes and my transcript from that point of my life, when I was doing the show at night every single day, but in the daytime I was in these meetings with management and HR. I was being asked to delete the word “Palestine” from a post about the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
So now we’re watching this play out on a completely different scale with Ed Sheeran capitulating to these venues’ demands, you know, the system’s demands of him. And I, too, know what it’s like to look in the eyes of the system and have them say, “If you don’t do what we’re telling you to do, you’re out.”
But you know what? What we have seen today is major: to see Macklemore stand on his convictions and to see other artists follow in suit, because they, too, understand that this is much bigger than a concert. This is much bigger than a tour. This is definitely much bigger than your paycheck.
It’s really heartening to see, and it’s like, I don’t know, it’s a major win for the internet today because this is happening in every industry. It’s happening—doctors are getting fired for talking about this. Professors have been fired for talking about this. Everybody’s fired for talking about this.
And what it is that we’re talking about is—and I quote—here’s something that this was the screenshot that I got, you know, in trouble for, disciplined over. And the quote said, “This has truly altered my life and woven into everything I see. There is nothing I can do or say that doesn’t in some way trace back to the hope for a more expansive, awakened humanity that includes and uplifts the Palestinian struggle.”
And then, in a separate but, like, the same-day post, I wrote, “There’s no controversy in wishing for a world where Palestinians have equal human rights.” And I believe that that is absolutely what I believe. And actually, if you don’t agree with that, I don’t even know what to say to you. I don’t know what to say to you if you’re gonna stand ten toes down that Palestinians shouldn’t have equal rights.
Girl, what do you mean? You’re going to try to belittle that sentiment by saying you don’t really know the whole story? It’s more complex. It’s more nuanced. You’re also missing the point.
The point is the crux of the message that I was doxed for saying is that Palestinians are human people that deserve equal human rights to all other people. There’s no confusion about that. There’s no hostility in that.
I worked up right now, but this isn’t dangerous to say. The reason it feels dangerous to say is because the Robert Krafts and the Marc Platts can just fire you or choose to never hire you again if you don’t agree with them.
That’s at least what I’m seeing. That’s at least what the world is seeing play out right now. That’s what I experienced at Wicked: that the producer of the show went on to say his personal feelings that didn’t agree with mine, and then I was told I’d be fired if I didn’t shut up about it.
About genocide, about 20,000 children being killed in the span of a few years, probably more. What are we talking about?
And also, the entire Broadway community has been pretty quiet about this. And it’s because our jobs are tied to our health insurance, and our work and our employment is tied to our very livelihood. Like, I understand this.
But what I don’t understand is when you’re somebody like Ed Sheeran and you have all the money in the world, or Taylor Swift, or Beyoncé, or really anyone who has any sort of, you know, ability to feed yourself at the end of the day.
No, even in the Broadway community, because I don’t have that much money, but I’m here trying to do what I can to donate it when I can, or to say what I have to say, or to not sell myself.
I mean, we have a lot more agency than Marc Platt lets us believe, and than the, you know, theological Marc Platts of the world allow us to believe. We do have more agency.
And I feel like today, with this Ed Sheeran stuff, is, like, showing us that. It’s, like, showing us that. And I hope to see more people follow suit, and I hope to see more people get engaged and start asking themselves, “What kind of artist am I? What kind of person do I want to be? What values have I taken from the art that I’ve watched in my life?”
Because I know what I’ve learned from Wicked. I know what I’ve learned from Glinda and what happens when you choose to be silent over following what’s in your heart. I cried every night feeling the consequences of Glinda’s choices. And sue me for being a little theater geek about it, but I do think art matters. I do think art can teach us things.
And I think it’s very unfair that Marc Platt gets to say what he thinks about the show, but I get properly disciplined for tying any of my personal views with my employment.
I’m not the only one doing that. I’m just the only one getting disciplined.
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