Andrew Culp and the Cultural Studies Association’s Performance Working Group Co-Chair Hui Peng discuss “relaxed performance” with Leigh Jackson, Director of Accessibility & EDI Programming at People’s Light outside of Philadelphia, and Dr. Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and author of Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (Palgrave, 2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Patrick McKelvey.
Articles by Leigh Jackson
Leigh Jackson is the Director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility at People's Light, a LORT theatre near in the Philadelphia suburbs. She organizes the American Sign Language interpretation, audio-description, Relaxed Performances, and other access services for theatre audiences.