Creative Access in Playwriting: A Writer’s Approach to Creating a Low Vision Friendly Production
Hosted by Amy Amantea
There are many ways to create a Low Vision Friendly (LVF) play! Playwright Frankie McGee joins us to share their journey of adapting a solo piece with multiple characters, exploring techniques in creative integrated description along the way.
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Guest Bio
Frankie McGee is an interdisciplinary artist, organizer, and youth worker of Irish settler descent, living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Frankie’s work invites audiences into the joy, heaviness, and unique intimacies bound up in their experiences as a queer, trans, disabled person muddling their way through relationships, care, and a world that needs transforming. In all their work, they aim to open space for people to feel freedom and power in their bodies, minds, and stories.
Frankie started performing spoken word poetry in 2013. In 2020 they collaborated with other disabled artists to create a video-poem, “our glorious bodies,” that pushes back against shame and celebrates disabled community. They’re currently working on a solo theatre piece, tentatively titled “my body remembers,” to connect themself and audiences with queer, trans, and disabled lineages more deeply, which they’ll perform in Peterborough ON in August 2025.
