“I feel like the theatrical industry is no place for a fat girl because a fat girl isn't what the public wants- at what least the paying public wants. Well, I’m sick and tired of it. I’m tired of being typecast as the “fat best friend”.”

“So can theatres cast a White performer Deloris? The answer is yes. But does that mean a community theatre company should?”

“There’s nothing about the role of Ebeneezer Scrooge that says he can’t be Deaf. There’s nothing that says that the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella can’t be blind. There’s nothing that pigeonholes anyone when you remember that folks with disabilities are people, just like everyone else, who can be misers or fairy godmothers or flirtatious townswomen. That openness is, inherently, authentic casting.”

“Casting roles shouldn’t be an assembly line – it should be a celebration of how a role becomes special and uniquely moving as told by any individual actor. And I think it’s a way for actors to liberate themselves and take some control in a system that often tries to fit us into a cookie cutter mold.”

“The casting team for the upcoming Wicked movie has put out a casting notice for the role of Nessarose where they encourage performers who are wheelchair users to submit for the role. A casting like this would be a step forward in representation for performers with disabilities. Which means it has to happen.”

“As a young actor growing up, I too had two different lists of roles I wanted to play. The first being the roles I knew I could realistically play as an Asian man and the other ones if I was white. Over the years I've spoken with many other performers of color and I know I'm far from the only one who had lists like these. “

“If you’ve donned any type of “face” in your performing career, it might not be something to expect a lot of people to “like”.”

“Maybe the Casting Director isn’t looking at you, because on some level you don’t want to be looked at.”

“I personally don’t think it should be seen as an overwhelmingly negative factor that the actor playing an autistic character is not on the spectrum himself.”