Playwright Discovery Award Teacher's Guide - The John F. Kennedy ...

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GET TO KNOW A PLAYWRIGHT: Mike Ervin is a playwright, disability rights activist, and
freelance journalist. He is the Coordinator of the Access Project at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater.
The Project hosts a series of disability culture events called Crip Slam and increases theater accessibility
for people with disabilities as audience members and writers. His plays include The History of Bowling
(1999) and The Plucky and Spunky Show (1990) written with Susan Nussbaum. He has published over
1,000 articles, mostly on disability-related topics, for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and
other publications.
Photo: Jon Randolph