Megwyn Sanders-Andrews

There’s a moment near the end of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time —the stage adaptation—that still sits in my body years after I first saw it. Christopher, a 15-year-old boy coded as autistic, has done something monumental: he traveled to London on his own, solved the mystery of who killed Wellington (the dog), found his mother, survived a sensory and emotional gauntlet, and wrote a book about it. And then he asks the question that lands like a dare: “Does that mean I can do...

Representation shapes real lives. Casting artists with disabilities, avoiding dehumanizing tropes, and judging work by community-grounded aesthetics creates theatre that respects—and reflects—our full humanity.