Able Workshop www.ableworkshop.com/
A site for woodworkers who have disabilities.
Actors’ Fund of America www.actorsfund.org/
The Actors’ Fund is for people on the stage and behind the
scenes, in front of the camera and behind the lens. It’s for agents,
announcers, carpenters and clowns, actors and dancers, magicians and
musicians, producers and free agents, stage hands and singers. People in
film and theatre, TV and radio, music, dance and opera, and the full
spectrum of other entertainment media have always turned to the Actors’
Fund when some personal or family crisis threatens their well-being.
Maintains a very complete list of industry websites of unions &
guilds, theater, film and television related sites.
Association of Mouth & Foot
Painting Artists Worldwide www.amfpa.com
Supports artists who, due to handicap or illness, have created works
of art with their mouth or foot.
Association for Theatre and
Accessibility www.npi.ucla.edu/ata
(Coalition of Inclusive Performing Arts) Mission: To foster the
inclusion of persons with disabilities in the performing arts. We are
committed to serving performing artists and administrators by
encouraging their professional growth and development and to serving
audiences by educating and advocating for accessible accommodations at
performances.
Awareness
Theater Company www.vsavt.org/awareness/about.html
A theatrical group composed of people with and without disabilities
in Vermont.
Axis Dance Company www.Axisdance.org
Based in Oakland, CA, Axis has been described as a "visual
and physical discovery, creating fascinating works of movement
art." Axis has become an internationally known resource for
physically integrated dance and is known for setting high artistic and
educational standards.
Blandina, Sister Pauline www.paulineblandina.org
Original paintings by a St. Louis artist who has a disability. Check it
out!
Callahan
Online www.callahanonline.com
There’s nothing funny about a quadriplegic in a wheelchair.
Unless, of course, that person is John Callahan. For nearly a
decade, this irreverent cartoonist has been shocking America
with his own special brand of wicked humor. In the world of
Callahan, nothing is sacred, nothing is taboo and nothing is funnier!
Dancing Wheels www.gggreg.com/dancingwheels.htm
One of the first professional modern dance companies in the U.S.
comprised of dancers with and without disabilities, Dancing Wheels was
established in 1980 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Deaf Art www.deafart.org/
Dedicated to art by people who are Deaf
Deaf
West Theatre www.deafwest.org
Founded in 1991 to directly improve and enrich the cultural lives of
the 1.2 million deaf and hard of hearing individuals who live in the Los
Angeles area.
Digital
Guild www.digitalguild.org.uk
British non-profit organization committed to the creative
application of digital technology.
Disability Information for Students
& Professionals www.abilityinfo.com/
Canadian site for education about disabilities for students and
professionals. Includes a disability news ticker, employment section,
chat rooms, and disability resources.
Disability Project www.disabilityproject.com
St. Louis ensemble of people with and without disabilities engaging
in conversation, writing, sound, movement, and theatrical exercises to
develop performance material around the culture of disability.
Full Radius Dance www.fullradiusdance.org
Mission: To promote, advance and enhance the modern dance form
for persons with disabilities, for dance artists, and the general
community.
Graeae www.members.lycos.co.uk/graeae
Britain’s foremost theatre
company of people with physical and sensory impairments.
Half The Planet Arts Page www.halftheplanet.com/departments/arts/
Articles on arts and disability.
Heart
N Soul www.heartnsoul.co.uk
A British dynamic arts organization offering creative opportunities
to people with learning disabilities.
Interact www.interactcenter.com
Creating art and challenging society’s view of disability in Minnesota.
Media Access Office www.mediaaccessoffice.com/
Actively promotes the employment and accurate portrayal of
persons with disabilities in all areas of the media and entertainment
industry, ensuring that the industry recognizes people with disabilities
as part of cultural diversity.
McCoys Guide to Theater and
Performance Studies www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html
Directory, index & guide related to theatre and/or performance
studies. Contents include actors and acting, plays and playwrights,
technical theater, stagecraft, arts management, online discussions and
newsgroups and a variety of magazines & journals.
National Arts & Disability Center http://nadc.ucla.edu/
National information dissemination, technical assistance and
referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability.
National Institute for Arts &
Disabilities www.niadart.org
Mission: To provide an art program for people with developmental
disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence, dignity
and community integration.
National Theatre of the Deaf www.ntd.org
Mission: To produce theatrically challenging work at a world
class level, drawing from as wide a range of the world’s literature as
possible; to perform these original works in a style that links American
Sign Language with the spoken word; to seek, train and employ Deaf
artists; to offer our work to as culturally diverse and inclusive an
audience as possible; to provide community outreach activities that will
educate and enlighten the general public.
Non-Traditional Casting Project www.ntcp.org./
A non-profit advocacy organization established in 1986 to
address and seek solutions to the problems of racism and exclusion in
theater, film and television.
PHAMALy www.phamaly-colorado.org
Phisically Handicapped Amateur Musical Actors League, Inc.
PHAMALy’s mission is to enable people with disabilities to showcase
their talents and abilities through live productions and to make the
performing arts more accessible to everyone.
Project Ability www.project-ability.co.uk/
An interesting VSA Arts-like program in England.
Scraping the Surface: www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/surface/
Autobiographical one-man show, written and performed as a
monologue by Canadian playwright/performer Lyle Victor Albert—"Vic."
Vic shares his experiences as a teenager with cerebral palsy. Excellent
show!
Screen Actors Guild www.sag.com/
Membership organization for filmmakers and actors. Includes a
directory, guild members, history, awards, resources and links in other
film, theater, & television professional organizations.
Theater
By The Blind www.tbtb.org
Critically acclaimed New York
company made up of both visually impaired and sighted theater
professionals.
VSA Arts www.vsarts.org
VSA arts is an international organization that creates learning
opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities.
