What has to change: “Disabled people may be artists, musicians, singers, or actors, [but] our experiences and stories rarely find their way to the stage. When we do appear in scripts or on stages, almost invariably those stories focus on the non-disabled people around us and cast us as villains, punchlines, or charity projects for the protagonists. Ableism runs deep in theatre and other performing arts communities. It shows up not only in the stories we tell but also in the ways in which we tell those stories—and it shows up in the spaces where we learn, rehearse, and perform.” – American Theatre