Cheryl Marie Wade

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Early years in Missouri and Texas; contracting polio at age three; receiving master's degree in literature from Columbia University; leaving teaching to pursue acting; rejection from Neighborhood Playhouse due to disability; moving to Portland, Oregon; joining the Family Circus Theater; moving to San Francisco, 1978; working on The Independent at the Center for Independent Living, Berkeley (CIL); joining Lilith Woman's Theatre; influence of Judy Heumann; CIL as consumer model system; developing first performance piece about disability; teaching theater to women with disabilities; writing No More Stares; moving to Los Angeles, 1980; Virginia Rubin as role model; developing work at Mark Taper Forum; power of disabled-only environments; Other Voices theater workshop; PhD in theater from University of California, Los Angeles; training in the arts for young people with disabilities; California Arts Council grant; Tell Them I'm a Mermaid; depictions of disabled people in theater, fighting stereotypes; accessibility issues in theater; casting and training issues for actors with disabilities in film and TV; Chautauquas: bringing together artists with disabilities. Supplementary material includes photographs, clippings, articles by Lewis, etc. Family background; role of music and poetry; disabled children and the role of physical touch; acknowledging and surviving childhood sexual abuse; experiences in school; onset of rheumatoid arthritis at age ten; attitudes of medical establishment; mother's denial of disability; parents' alcoholism; returning to College of Marin, 1974, impact of more accessible campus; complexity of the disability experience; University of California, Berkeley's Physically Disabled Students' Program; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Judy Heumann; motorized wheelchair; becoming an activist; attending UC Berkeley; impressions of Berkeley's disability rights activists; decision to leave psychology program; joining Wry Crips, disabled women's theater group, 1985; Wry Crips goals: inclusion, education, empowerment; decision to leave Wry Crips, 1989; inception of Axis Dance Company; Axis' international recognition; working with Brava! For Women in the Arts; receiving National Endowment for the Arts Solo Theater Artist Fellowship; choosing to write about disability; the Corporation on Disabilities and Telecommunications (CDT); Professional Enrichment Project; creative process as writer; role of art in disability rights; mainstream media and disability; Ed Roberts.

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Early years in Missouri and Texas; contracting polio at age three; receiving master's degree in literature from Columbia University; leaving teaching to pursue acting; rejection from Neighborhood Playhouse due to disability; moving to Portland, Oregon; joining the Family Circus Theater; moving to San Francisco, 1978; working on The Independent at the Center for Independent Living, Berkeley (CIL); joining Lilith Woman's Theatre; influence of Judy Heumann; CIL as consumer model system; developing first performance piece about disability; teaching theater to women with disabilities; writing No More Stares; moving to Los Angeles, 1980; Virginia Rubin as role model; developing work at Mark Taper Forum; power of disabled-only environments; Other Voices theater workshop; PhD in theater from University of California, Los Angeles; training in the arts for young people with disabilities; California Arts Council grant; Tell Them I'm a Mermaid; depictions of disabled people in theater, fighting stereotypes; accessibility issues in theater; casting and training issues for actors with disabilities in film and TV; Chautauquas: bringing together artists with disabilities. Supplementary material includes photographs, clippings, articles by Lewis, etc. Family background; role of music and poetry; disabled children and the role of physical touch; acknowledging and surviving childhood sexual abuse; experiences in school; onset of rheumatoid arthritis at age ten; attitudes of medical establishment; mother's denial of disability; parents' alcoholism; returning to College of Marin, 1974, impact of more accessible campus; complexity of the disability experience; University of California, Berkeley's Physically Disabled Students' Program; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Judy Heumann; motorized wheelchair; becoming an activist; attending UC Berkeley; impressions of Berkeley's disability rights activists; decision to leave psychology program; joining Wry Crips, disabled women's theater group, 1985; Wry Crips goals: inclusion, education, empowerment; decision to leave Wry Crips, 1989; inception of Axis Dance Company; Axis' international recognition; working with Brava! For Women in the Arts; receiving National Endowment for the Arts Solo Theater Artist Fellowship; choosing to write about disability; the Corporation on Disabilities and Telecommunications (CDT); Professional Enrichment Project; creative process as writer; role of art in disability rights; mainstream media and disability; Ed Roberts.

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Title	Cheryl Marie Wade
Creator	interviewee. Lewis, Victoria, interviewee. Wade, Cheryl Marie, interviewer. Cowan, Kathryn, interviewer. Ehrlich, Esther,
Creator	issuing body. Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office,
Published	Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, 2002-2003.
Full Collection Name	California Audiovisual Preservation Project
Other Identifiers	cabeuroh_000286
Subject (Person)	Lewis, Victoria Interviews. Wade, Cheryl Marie Interviews.
Subject (Corporate)	Center for Independent Living. Project Other Voices. Wry Crips. AXIS Dance Troupe. AXIS Dance Company (Oakland, Calif.)
Subject (Topic)	Actors with disabilities United States--Interviews. Women performance artists United States--Interviews. Actors with disabilities United States. People with disabilities Drama. Women with disabilities United States. Women authors, American. Acteurs handicapés États-Unis--Entretiens. Acteurs handicapés États-Unis. Handicapées États-Unis. Écrivaines américaines.
Type	Video
Format	Oral histories.
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