Stephanie Barton-Farcas
Stephanie Barton-Farcas is the Artistic Director of Nicu's Spoon Theater Company, the first company in NYC history to be fully inclusive. She recently directed Red Noses and The Cherry Orchard and her company Nicu’s Spoon is the subject of the documentary Two and Twenty Troubles which premiered in NYC September 2014. She directed Richard III in NYC in fall of 2015 where the entire society of the play is disabled, except Richard. Other NYC directing includes Bad Seed, Buried Child, The Little Prince, George Orwell’s 1984, and the OOBR winning SubUrbia. She is the creator of a new performance style called co-playing for both deaf and hearing audiences and was guest director at the University of Hawaii in 2016. She actively assists with casting for plays, films and some TV and actively encourages disabled, women and actors of color to be cast.
As an educator and activist she has guest lectured for University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan and does many consultancies - with the Royal Societe Scotland on their training program, Stella Adler studios in NYC in ways to attract disabled artists, Columbia University & NYU Tisch in how to increase disabled artists access to auditions for their programs. She has been a guest speaker at USITT as well as consults with the Fulbright Scholars Ph.D program.
As a writer she has written for Backstage and howlround. Her book Disability & Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts: published by Routledge Press and a second book, Acting & Auditioning in the 21st Century. Currently she is authoring a chapter on applied theater and youth with disabilities for Routledge Press’ 2020 book on applied theater.
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- ↑ https://www.americantheatre.org/2015/10/20/theatre-artists-with-disabilities-are-ready-willing-and-yes-able
- ↑ https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=stephanie+barton-farcas&docid=608026992516670875&mid=68E002225C0BC46B0F3868E002225C0BC46B0F38&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
- ↑ https://howlround.com/commons/stephanie-barton-farcas
- ↑ http://www.22troublesfilm.com/team/
- ↑ https://www.routledge.com/authors/i16253-stephanie-barton-farcas
- ↑ https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Stephanie+Barton-Farcas
- ↑ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=stephanie+barton-farcas&hl=en
