A Pulitzer Prize-winning play is opening at Fonseca Theatre this weekend. Chris Saunders, the artistic director of American Lives Theatre, tells WRTV 'Cost of Living' is 'beautifully truthful and authentic' in a way that he's never seen before.
INDIANAPOLIS — A new play opening at a west side theatre this weekend shares the Pultizer Prize-winning story by Martyna Majok about the human need for other people, no matter our advantages or disadvantages in life.
The play is being produced in Indianapolis by American Lives Theatre for the first time. ALT's founder and creative director, Chris Saunders, says he's been working to get Cost of Living in Indy since it first hit theaters in 2016.In an interview with WRTV, Saunders said everything about the play is"beautifully truthful and authentic" in a way that he's never seen before.
According to a 2016 report by the Ruderman Foundation, a nonprofit that researches and advocates for disability inclusion, 95% of characters with disabilities on television are played by non-disabled individuals. Mozzi lives with a physical disability and is one of the four-person cast of Cost of Living. Although she's been acting since high school, she's never played a disabled role before.
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