The first performer who uses a wheelchair to win a Tony, Ali Stroker is changing the Broadway stage and leading the conversation about visibility and accessibility.
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“I think back and it being the first time I ever did it, I’m sort of impressed with myself,” Stroker says of her first time taking the proverbial stage. After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts in 2009, Stroker says roles were difficult to come by. She moved to Los Angeles and in 2012 auditioned for. Then, her agents sent her to audition for a production ofwith the Deaf West Theatre, a production company that uses both hearing and hearing-impaired actors. In 2015 she made her Broadway debut in that production and became the first performer in a wheelchair in a Broadway show.
Stroker says she recognizes the importance of all these firsts having spent years going to the theater, and seeing movies and T.V. shows without any stars who looked like her. It’s part of what drew her to play Ado Annie inThe role is traditionally a very physical and expressive one, and Stroker’s interpretation held true to the original. “We used my chair, we used my physicality,” she says.There is still a long way to go when it comes to representation and accessibility in entertainment.
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