Workshop: Audience Access and Accessibility with Kayla Besse

Kayla Besse currently works as the Accessibility Coordinator at the Stratford Festival. Prior to this, she worked as the Public Education Coordinator at Tangled Art + Disability, and in knowledge mobilization and digital storytelling facilitation roles at the ReVision Centre for Art & Social Justice. She co-produces and co-hosts the Crip Times podcast. She earned both her Bachelor and Master’s degrees from The School of English & Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. In her Master’s work with Dr. Elaine Chang, she was interested in tracing histories of disability representation in literature and on stage, and how these inform public and medical bias. These days, she mostly wants to facilitate a nice time for disabled people in the arts, because it shouldn’t be as hard as it is.