#195: Dave Osmundsen

About this episode

Dave Osmundsen discusses the challenges and opportunities for autistic theatre artists in the industry.

Dave Osmundsen is autistic playwright / dramaturg / actor whose article “Finding Autistic Theatre Artists Is a Challenge (If You Make It a Challenge)” appeared in Howlround this past February. It’s a terrific article and I wholly recommend reading it because it will definitely broaden your knowledge base around autism. In the article Dave addresses several questions of how the theatre world could include, accommodate, and better understand autistic theatre artists while also allowing those accommodations to enhance and strengthen not just the needs of autistic theatre artists but the needs of everyone involved in the theatre company.

People in this episode

Host: George Sapio

Guest: Dave Osmundsen

Topics covered

• autism
• theatre
• inclusion
• playwriting
• dramaturgy

Keywords

• autistic theatre
• playwright
• dramaturg
• inclusion
• accommodation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Howlround

Books & works: Finding Autistic Theatre Artists Is a Challenge (If You Make It a Challenge)

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