ABSTRACT
The twenty-first century disabled artistic community is growing in power and will soon be a political force larger than they have ever been and they will continue to demand training, promotion, equitable casting and pay and substantial work. The universities that are smart enough to get it together now and start training artists with disabilities will be on the front lines of the changing theatre, television and film scene in the US. An institution of higher learning cannot even begin to address the issue of sustaining what they are doing financially, internally or academically until it has done an assessment of where it is and what it is currently doing. Playwrights should be actively grown from the disabled community as well and no academic programs have even woken up to this. All academic recruiters should be actively looking at disabled students. Academics and college level inclusion is woefully not only usually inactive, but inadequate.
