This diarist freelances out of state, but this week she is at home beginning her daughter’s transition from educational services to housing for disabled adults. Her week is full of paperwork, pureed pizza, and a commitment to remaining present.
Through creative captions, the access tool of captioning becomes a design element with its own dramaturgical perspective. Caption designer McClain Leong introduces some of the design considerations that enable a dramaturgical approach to creative captions.
A Panel About Collaborating with Specialists on Stage and Screen
Wednesday 5 June 2024
United States
The panel is facilitated by Brooke M. Haney and features queer leaders in the fields of intimacy direction and coordination, gender and cultural consulting, mental health, and disability advocacy, and more.
In Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre, Fumbani Innot Phiri Jr. interviews established theatre artists from all backgrounds to explore the precarious journey of theatre in a modern world, define its problems, and find better solutions to sustain performing arts in a generation of motion pictures. Fumbani leads discussions with established performers, directors, and writers who are exploring ways to greet these challenges while their works inspires their communities.
Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.
In this series, a variety of disabled theatre artists—managers, designers, producers, and dramaturgs—will share how they do their work, as well as their vision for an accessible future in professional theatre.
To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on 26 July 2015, we're publishing a series of pieces focusing on issues of accessibility and visibility in theatre.
