Producing Theatre That Scares You with Michael Patrick Thornton
Break A Leg! Disability in the Arts08/01/21 • 53 min
Michael Patrick Thornton is the co-founder and artistic director of Chicago's The Gift Theatre. He joined Nicole to talk about producing, his career on stage and television, casting, representation, the “cripple card,” traveling abroad in a wheelchair, and more!
The Gift Theatre online:
Website: https://thegifttheatre.org/
Instagram: @thegifttheatre
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGiftTheatre/
Episode Transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1751649/8977842
Produced by Scott MacDonald
Artwork by Sasha & Alexander Schwartz
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08/01/21 • 53 min
Break A Leg! Disability in the Arts - Producing Theatre That Scares You with Michael Patrick Thornton
Transcript
Welcome to Break A Leg! A podcast that explores the relationship between disability and the arts. I'm your host, Nicole Zimmerer, and on today's episode our guest is Michael Patrick Thornton. Mike is the co-founder and artistic director of Chicago's The Gift Theatre. He's an actor, a writer, an improviser and a director. And let me see, and he appears frequently on TV and stage and he also happens to be my mentor, my "Yoda," as I like to sa
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