Creating Disability Equity and Allyship in the Arts
COMPANY EVENT Creating Disability Equity and Allyship in the Arts Dates & Times Tuesday, October 1, 2024 – 6:00pm-7:30pm This event has been postponed About the Event Join company members Christine Bruno, Carey Cox, Joseph Kibler, and ally Jeff Crockett for a dynamic and interactive company conversion that explores creating disability equity in the arts and raising awareness within our community. Together, we’ll dig into where we’ve been, where we are now, where we want to go, and strategies on how to get there. During our 90 minutes together, we’ll unpack history and facts, dismantle common tropes, tackle language, highlight the work of select disabled creatives, past and present, and explore the complicated history and evolving landscape of training, including the importance of ongoing communication, the valuable learning that comes from making mistakes, being willing to make repair and change, and how working with disabled artists benefits everyone. This conversation is open to all company members and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. RSVP To Attend This event has been postponed About the Artists Christine Bruno is an award-winning actor, director, teaching artist, and disability equity consultant for the entertainment industry. She has appeared in productions across the U.S. and internationally. Recent select theatre credits include the Off-Broadway world premieres of Bekah Brunstetter's Public Servant (Theatre Row); Mariana Correño King’s Truckers (INTAR); Jose Rivera’s adaptation of Genet’s The Maids (INTAR). Additional world premieres include How to Live (14Y) Raspberry: The Musical (UK tour), The Ugly Girl (UK tour), The Good Daughter (NJ Rep). Regional Credits include Cost of Living (Oakland Theater Project), The Glass Menagerie (Fulton Theater). Select TV and film credits include God Friended Me, Law & Order, SXSW festival favorites Best Summer Ever and This is Where We Live; ABLE: A Series, Less Than or Equal To, and Hungry. Christine’s teaching artist credits include NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Queens Theatre’s TFA program. She serves on the National Board and New York Local Board of SAG-AFTRA, is Chair of the National and NY SAG- AFTRA Performers with Disabilities (PWD) Committees, Vice-Chair of the National Diversity Advisory Committee, and serves on several other SAG- AFTRA Committees, Actors’ Equity EEOC Committee, as well as the Advisory Councils of National Disability Theatre, Queens Theatre’, and ART/NY. Christine is a 2024 Disability Futures Fund Fellow, the recipient of Artist Grants from NYFA, Park Avenue Armory, NY Arts...

