Abstract
I have a habit of liking to flip the familiar. In theatre this manifests as a driving obsession to look for artistic practices and models that work well for institutes, companies, and creators and ask: is this the way you’ve always done things? It’s a good question to start the rock rolling on issues of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. No matter what the answer is, I like to invite people to start a conversation, to ask who is involved in these successful systems and who isn’t? Not everyone is interested. Heidi Taylor, Artistic and Executive Director of the Playwrights’ Theatre Centre (PTC) in Vancouver, is. Together we developed ACK Lab, an investigation on how to make the PTC Playwright’s Colony, a yearly writing intensive at PTC, more inclusive and accessible to persons with perceived or self-identified disabilities. It was graciously funded by the Bly Capacity grant, a LAMDA initiative and a Canada Council “Leadership for Change” grant. It involved six months of intense conversations and a ten-day workshop during December 2015.
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