Excerpt from: SCPR (click for full article)
Actors with developmental disabilities compete with non-disabled performers to get roles in Hollywood. But disabled actors often are typecast as handicapped characters. Performers enrolled in a theater group in Inglewood want to break out of that box.
About 90 actors at Performing Arts Studio West are rehearsing more than a dozen pop and classic rock songs for their upcoming show called “Recovered: A Musical Journey.”
The creative arts adult program they’re part of trains people who have disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and bipolar disorder.
“A lot of people said, ‘Oh, my God, you have a disability?'" said Nick
Daley, 33, who has Prader-Willi Syndrome — a rare genetic disorder.
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