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Tuesday, July 20 • 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Demanding Access: Women and Non-Binary People w/Disabilities Making Theatre on Their Own Terms

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Join Michaela Goldhaber, Artistic Director of Wry Crips Disabled Women's Theatre (Berkeley California), in conversation with a panel of disabled women and non-binary movers and shakers in theatre from around the country about how to make our work on our terms.

Michaela (Mickey) Goldhaber is Artistic Director of Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theatre. She cowrote and directed Wry Crips Occupy! at ACT’s Costume Shop and on Phamaly Theatre’s YouTube channel. She was Co-Artistic Director (with Heather Ondersma) of Flying Fig Theater in New York, whose mission was to tell women’s stories on stage. Mickey’s plays include The Lady Scribblers (Custom Made Theatre), Watch Out for Falling Women (Berkeley Rep School), and What Does it Matter? A Morality from the short story by E. M. Forster (Sex and Culture). Mickey is the Lead Instigator of the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival.

NOTE: This is a TWO HOUR session + will begin at 7:00 pm ET on Tuesday, July 20th, 2021.
If you haven't already, please visit our Eventbrite to purchase a ticket, and then you will be able to add this session to your Con 21 SCHEDule.
Speakers
avatar for Grant Miller

Grant Miller

Co-President, Access Artist, The Curiosity Paradox
Grant Miller is a Disabled, queer, non-binary white settler who was born on the stolen lands of the Multnomah bands of Chinook and Kalapuya-Tualatin people. Their practice is shaped against eugenic performance training models, and involves elements of physical theater, dance, mask... Read More →
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Sofiya Cheyenne

Sofiya Cheyenne is a Performer, Teaching Artist and Disability Advocate/Consultant. She is the Committee Chair of The Dwarf Artist Coalition of Little People of America and on the Board of Trustee’s for Access Champions Podcast, where she continually advocates for people of short... Read More →
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Christine Bruno

Disability Inclusion Consultant
CHRISTINE BRUNO received her MFA in acting and directing from the New School, and works nationally and internationally as an actor, director, teaching artist, and disability inclusion consultant for the entertainment industry, universities, theatre conferences, nonprofit and for-profit... Read More →
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Michaela Goldhaber

Lead Instigator, Bay area Women's Theatre Festival
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Claudia Alick

Founding Executive Producer, Calling Up Justice
Claudia Alick is a cultural producer, performer, and inclusion expert. Named by American Theater Magazine as one of 25 theater artists who will shape American Theater in the next 25 years, Alick has served as the founding Artistic Director of Smokin' Word Productions, is a NY Neofuturist... Read More →
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Ciara Lovelace

Hello! My name is ciara Lovelace and I live in Oakland California. I have been living in Oakland for all of my life and I love it! I iam an all around artist. I am a poet, an actress, and a writerl. I have been writting since I was a child. Self expression as an art form has helped... Read More →

Tuesday July 20, 2021 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
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