How a neurodivergent college student got the lead role in a Tony-winning play by Theresa Walker
Read full article | » Buy Tickets | » More Info“College student Aaron Lipp will step into his first professional theatrical production when Chance Theater in Anaheim presents “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” which opens Saturday, Sept. 30.”
“Yes, it is a risk to cast somebody that’s an unknown,” said Hovis, a resident artist at Chance Theater for more than 20 years. “But we were really hoping to cast somebody who identified as neurodivergent. We really felt like it’s their story.”
“Yes, I’m going to be exhausted and tired,” Lipp said. “But I also don’t have to leave the stage and go in and out of character. I find that challenging.”
“Acting, Lipp said, is his outlet: “It’s a way to say whatever I want to say emotionally and physically through the words and actions of another character.”
“Lipp hopes audience members themselves will feel different at the end of two and a half hours. “I want people to just care more about others around them.”
“It’s really about everyone who is navigating spaces in between people that don’t quite look like us or don’t sound like us.”
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