The Disability Scorecard: Are You Doing a Panel, or Actually Doing Something?
Want to make disabled artists and audiences more than symbols or afterthoughts? Here’s the minimum you can do (and you really should do more than the minimum).
All Stories About disability
Everything Going His Way: My Dad’s ‘Oklahoma!’ Accessibility Journey
Taking my father, a Parkinson’s patient and stroke survivor, to the current Broadway revival was a challenge, but well worth it.
A Place for Exposure: New Initiative to Nurture Writers With Disabilities
Apothetae and the Lark launch a two-year fellowship to nurture new voices and keep them in conversation.
A Leg Up: Disability as an Advantage in ‘The Matchmaker’
The Goodman Theatre’s diversity and inclusion efforts, thankfully for me and others, include disability.
If a Deaf Musical Is Possible, There Is Room on Our Stages for Everyone
The artistry of Deaf and disabled theatre workers has been amply demonstrated. Why aren’t they centerstage more regularly?
Theatre Artists With Disabilities Are Ready, Willing, and, Yes, Able
Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.
Once More Unto the Breach
An Anatomized Philippic Regarding the Relationship of Disability to the Contemporary American Theatre
What John Belluso Taught Me About Disability, Generosity, and Life
How a seminal friendship changed my views on disability—and prepared me for my own.
‘We Are Not a Metaphor’
A conversation about disability and representation.
Sharing the Spotlight
Deafness and disability have been marginalized from our stages. How can we change that picture?
