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Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage – television program
April 29, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free
Watch an upcoming television program featuring Mickey Rowe and neurodiversity-affirming speech-language therapist and Buffalo native Amy Pinder on WBBZ-TV on Wednesday, April 26 at 8 pm or Saturday, April 29 at noon on Channel 5 on Verizon FiOS, Spectrum, and DISH and Channel 67 on DirecTV.
Mickey is an actor, director, speaker, author, and consultant who has been featured in The New York Times, the Today Show, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Vogue, CNN, and PBS. He is the first autistic actor to play Christopher Boone, the lead role in the Tony Award-winning play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and the title role in the Tony Award-winning play Amadeus. He keynoted at the International Council on Development and Learning, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Kennedy Center, Yale University, Columbia University, Disability Rights Washington, The Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, New York Public Library, and more.
An autistic and legally blind person, Mickey Rowe is a disability and accessibility expert who has led DEIA trainings and workshops for Nordstrom, Pfizer, BrightHouse, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, and more. He was the founding Artistic Director of the National Disability Theatre, which partners with Tony Award-winning companies, like La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Most recently, Mickey authored the award-winning, bestselling book Fearlessly Different. (Link to article written by Annette Pinder in Buffalo Healthy Living.)
To learn more about Mickey, see video clips of his appearances, purchase his book, or arrange to have him speak at your organization, visit http://www.mickeyrowe.com.