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ARTS - ACTING, DRAMA & THEATRE
INDIVIDUALS ORGANISATIONS
| In 1992 Auti Angel, a professional dancer on her way to stardom, faced devastation when she experienced a life threatening auto accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down. However, through years of many trials, Auti Angel has been able to reinvent herself as the shinning star she is.
Auti Angel has experienced life’s challenges that would later become her tool to help mentor others through their struggles. Returning to her first love of dance, she pioneered wheelchair hip-hop dancing worldwide and has continued to pursue her career in music and acting; showing this industry that she is Unstoppable!
Auti Angel is currently one of the stars on the Best Reality Series "Push Girls" (Critics Choice Award winner). In the film "Musical Chairs" on HBO, she not only stars as Nicky, but she also wrote, sang, and co-produced the song “Baile Baile” that is on the soundtrack (availible on iTunes). |
| Wheelchair user Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, a former hip-hopper, now acting in NCIS. |
| In addition to her "day-job," Jaehn freelances as a performing artist, touring nationally to perform her orginal one-woman shows, Belle's on Wheels and Tail Tell Tale. She also freelances as a residency teaching artist, offering classes and workshops in community settings. Jaehn also danced professionally for three years, with Atlanta's only integrated professional modern dance company, Full Radius Dance.
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| On March 9th 2017, The Glass Menagerie opened at the Belasco Theater in New York City, thereby adding a new act to the city’s theater history — Madison Ferris, an actor with muscular dystrophy, will become the first wheelchair user to perform a major role in a Broadway production. |
| Marlee Matlin received worldwide critical acclaim for her motion picture debut in Paramount Pictures' "Children of a Lesser God," a performance the film community chose to recognize in with its highest honor - the Academy Award for Best Actress. At age 21, she became the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar and one of only four actresses to receive that honor for a film debut. |
| This site is maintained by fans and friends of Mitch Longley's, and is in no way officially associated with Mr. Longley; it is a non-profit site and compiledstrictly as a tribute to Mr. Longley, and as a celebration of his many and varied accomplishments as an actor, writer, model, photographer and advocate for people with physical disabilities. (NB: search Google for more on Mitch, his site is no longer in action).
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| My acting: I strive to be part of projects that are honest, extraordinary, and change-effecting while also entertaining and unpretentious. Ingenue I am not; give me the gritty, messy, crazy, humorous, quirky, unbalanced, powerful, asymmetrical, injured, witty, intelligent, and complicated. I value every moment on stage with an audience, and treat each theatrical endeavour as a unique opportunity to connect with other humans. Mostly, I believe acting is the ultimate exercise in empathy...and that's why I love it. And the wheels? I use a manual wheelchair due to a T-4 complete spinal cord injury from a car accident in college. I am fortunate to cruise through the world each day, and while I delight in the daily discoveries of my wheeling existence, my wheels are just one element of my human smorgasbord. |
| One of my favorite stories regarding my short stature is about a man I encountered while Christmas shopping with some friends in Marshall Field's. He looked like an African dignitary (nice suit with medals, flanked by secret service types) and stared at me in wonder. Later I found out he asked one of my friends, "What tribe is she from?" Apart from the occasional rude stares, though, people are generally very nice to me. I especially like meeting kids and explaining my short stature to them. I figure if they are taught early, they will be more accepting of others as adults.
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| Australian Theatre of the Deaf aims to make a unique contribution to Australian culture by creating daring and bi-lingual theatre for the hearing and the deaf. In so doing, it hopes to promote understanding and awareness of cultural difference and increase the audience for deaf cultural expression. |
| BIRDS OF PARADISE is a professional touring theatre company, which produces adventurous and challenging work that places disability in the public arena. |
| A collective of artists and performers who identify as being disabled or having a disability, its members are professional and amateur artists and performers of all genres. They include visual artists, screen and stage actors, dancers, comedians and humorists, musicians, singers, speakers, poets, writers, producers, directors and others working in the arts and entertainment industries. They experience physical, intellectual or learning disablement, mental illness, or a combination. |
| Involving themselves in a range of media and arts areas, 'No Limits' won the Media Award from People with Disabilities WA for promoting inclusion and awareness for people with disabilities - 2004. |
| Wild Swan Theater is nationally known for its ingenious artistry, its innovative audience accessiblity program, and its projects for participants with disabilities.
Through a project named Dramatically Able, Wild Swan Theater is making drama accessible to participants with disabilities.
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