Asst. Prof @PSUtheatre. Dramaturg. Write on disability/crip studies, musicals, literature, queerness, aesthetics, performance, and access. deaf. They/he.

Joined March 2009
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i cannot stress enough how excited i am for this i LOVE seeing artists put so much love and detail into their work especially to make it more inclusive. more of this @ dis

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Amy Poehler’s impression of a Stephen Sondheim song absolutely took me out
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US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.
Stop fear-mongering. ICE does NOT arrest or deport U.S. citizens. If a U.S. citizen is arrested, it is because they have obstructed or assaulted law enforcement. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is if they are illegally in the U.S.—NOT their skin color, race, or ethnicity. Secretary Noem has been clear: rioters will not stop us or slow us down.
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*Gasp* wow students are disabled in similar proportions to the adult American public. How mind boggling. Could yall stop telling disabled kids they dont belong in college? Sincerely a disabled professor.
This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago." As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability—extended time on tests, housing accommodations, etc—the rates of disability at colleges, and especially at elite colleges, has exploded. America used to stigmatize disability too severely. Now elite institutions reward it too liberally. It simply does not make any sense to have a policy that declares half of the students at Stanford cognitively disabled and in need of accommodations.
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Hey @deadline, it's 2025–let's maybe leave behind "Wheelchair-bound" when we describe disabled wheelchair-users – either film characters or real performers? It's ableist language that inverts the very point of Bode's casting/performance in #WickedForGood. deadline.com/2025/11/wicked-…
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As a disability theatre artist scholar, I can't help but feel conflicted about @DeadlinePete's well-intentioned line: "Marissa Bode’s wheelchair-bound Nessarose is given some key screen time and delivers in a piece of casting that is as inspiring as the character she plays."
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Nessarose's arc–and Chu's handling of the challenging (and problematic) Broadway storyline–runs against the grain of traditional disability inspiration porn precisely because she refuses to be easily flattened into simplistic binaries.
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honestly i was skeptical but they did a good job w the website hotgirlsforcuomo.com

I’m officially launching “Hot Girls for Cuomo” If you’re a hot girl for Cuomo, I want to hear from you!!
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Please share widely: Penn State School of Theatre is hiring an Assistant Professor of Theatre History. Applications received by October 20, 2025, will receive full consideration; however, the search will continue until the position is filled. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en…

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The search is open to all applicants, although expertise in teaching, artistry, and research areas related to Premodern or Modern global diasporic practices, such as African, Asian, Latine, and Native American/Indigenous/First Nations cultures and methodologies, is desired.
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Please feel free to reach out with any questions you have! If I don't know the answer, I will try to discover it for you.
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To be clear, this is basically all of my work. These executive order restrictions on freedom of thought are dangerous and damaging—to say nothing of the fact that the logic that “equity ideology” is discriminatory is laughably bad.
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crucible cast party.
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I’m lucky to have the time and energy to navigate this problem—and thank goodness I started this process while I still have some days of medication left. How do people without these resources navigate these inaccessible systems?
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It's THAT time of year! Here's my annual 2025 #AuditionList of first choice songs presented by auditionees for entry onto a BA or MA Musical Theatre degree at a London conservatoire this year. PDF is available on my website for free download. ingadavisrutter.com
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there is a point to be made here about the lengths a creative team can choose to go to accommodate a disability
It's amazing to see the creatives accommodate Patrick's injury and integrate it into Hades' character instead of erasing it via close-ups and strategically placed camera angles. Accept and adapt. That's the way to go.
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Signal boosting— (I wish more departments had this kind of program. It seems like a particularly good model for performance artists wanting to collaborate on a shared project.)
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversit…
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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