Posted on Mar 28, 2023
Making the theater experience more inclusive and accessible
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We all deserve a space where we can be unapologetically ourselves. Sylvie Crowe, a director, costume designer, and actor at Bellevue Youth Theater, is part of a new generation of creatives who are fighting to create that space for disabled and LGBTQ+ people.
Making the theater experience more inclusive and accessible
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...""One of the ways that we're really working on making our program accessible is relaxing on the urgency that sometimes comes with theater," Sylvie said. "There's that sense of, 'We have to get this done now. We have to know all of these things now. And we have to do all of this exactly right, right now.' And because we're community theater — because we're not putting the pressures of professional theater on ourselves — we are able to step on the brakes, and let things happen at a different pace than with the urgency that prevents a lot of theater from being accessible to people."
Today, Sylvie continues to advocate for representation in media and community theater.
This story was produced in a RadioActive Youth Media one-week Intro to Radio Storytelling workshop for high school-age youth. Production assistance by Dayana Capulong and Leila M'baye. Prepared for the web by Leila M'baye."
...""One of the ways that we're really working on making our program accessible is relaxing on the urgency that sometimes comes with theater," Sylvie said. "There's that sense of, 'We have to get this done now. We have to know all of these things now. And we have to do all of this exactly right, right now.' And because we're community theater — because we're not putting the pressures of professional theater on ourselves — we are able to step on the brakes, and let things happen at a different pace than with the urgency that prevents a lot of theater from being accessible to people."
Today, Sylvie continues to advocate for representation in media and community theater.
This story was produced in a RadioActive Youth Media one-week Intro to Radio Storytelling workshop for high school-age youth. Production assistance by Dayana Capulong and Leila M'baye. Prepared for the web by Leila M'baye."
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