Actor and artistic director Gregg Mozgala uses theater to put the disabled body on display with unassailable authenticity.
b'UNCSA alumnus Gregg Mozgala, after years of performing on some of Off-Broadway\\u2019s finest stages, is enjoying a well-earned banner year. He recently completed a national tour playing the title character in \\u201cTeenage Dick,\\u201d a modern take on Shakespeare\\u2019s \\u201cRichard III\\u201d centered on the experience of a high school student with cerebral palsy, and this summer he appeared in \\u201cRichard III\\u201d itself, alongside film and theater star Danai Gurira, in the Public Theater\\u2019s revered Shakespeare in the Park season. This fall he will cap off the year with his Broadway debut in Martyna Majok\\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning \\u201cThe Cost of Living,\\u201d reprising the leading role he performed in the play\\u2019s premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2018.Gregg can credit that success not only to his acting but also his producing skills. In 2012, determined to make disability and people with disabilities more visible on the nation\\u2019s stages, he founded The Apothetae, a New York-based theater company dedicated to the production of works that explore and illuminate the disabled experience. The Apothetae has developed several new plays and adaptations from and with both established and up-and-coming artists \\u2014 disabled and non-disabled, Deaf and hearing \\u2014 and it is through The Apothetae\\u2019s commissioning program that playwright Mike Lew completed \\u201cTeenage Dick.\\u201dIn this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, Gregg describes how an understanding of his cultural lineage as a disabled performer led him to create a company that celebrates displaying disabled bodies and their stories with unassailable authenticity.http://www.greggmozgala.com/http://www.theapothetae.org/'