Disability & Ableism

Is The New York Theater Scene Serving Disabled Artists And The Disabled Population?

https://thetheatretimes.com/is-the-new-york-theater-scene-serving-disabled-artists-and-the-disabled-population/

Is The New York Theater Scene Serving Disabled Artists And The Disabled Population?" is an article from the Theatre Times. This article discusses the representation of people with disabilities onstage. It argues theaters in New York have made progress in representation onstage but still have a long way to go.  

Diversity in theatre: why is disability being left out?

 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2016/feb/16/disability-theatre-diversity-arena-wolverhampton
This article from The Guardian  (published in and about the UK) briefly discusses how the UK is shifting towards a more diverse theatre scene in terms of gender and race, but diversity in disability is dragging behind. The author, Lyn Gardner, summarizes a discussion which she chaired for a UK theatre about disability diversity in UK theatre.

Creating Ability-Positive Theatre for Children

 https://howlround.com/creating-ability-positive-theatre-children
This article is the author's account of what it was like to grow up as a child with Asperger's Syndrome experiencing media and theatre that lacked diverse ability representation. He goes into detail on how he took his own experience of lacking representation and developed an ability-positive adaption of The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson that gives differently abled children representation onstage. 

Mental Health and Working in Theatre: a Roundtable Discussion
https://www.theintervalny.com/interviews/2018/10/mental-health-and-working-in-theatre-a-roundtable-discussion/
This article is from The Interval and is a transcript of a round table discussion among female theatre professionals. All of the women speak about the challenges of working in theatre with mental health issues from personal experiences.