Snow Shoes is the first play I have ever written and focuses on my experiences as an invisibly disabled queer woman. 

I grew tired of bashing at the door of the acting industry, asking to be taken seriously as an able-bodied actor- something I am not- or as a disabled actor- something that I am not visibly. I am yet to find a play that captures my experience of invisible disability. Invisible disability comes with its own underlying benefits and privileges. I have been able to omit or include my disability in life, in storytelling and in the roles I have played. It has also come with its own marginalization, as my health has often been met with skepticism or erasure. That’s something I really wanted to play with in the text, and a feature I plan to carry forward in my future productions. 

The origin of me writing this play goes back to auditioning for drama school. In my year, myself and my peer were the first disabled students the school had record of. The discovery that both of us auditioned with the same monologue- The Shape of the Pain by Chris Thorpe and Rachel Bagshaw- was a hilarious insight into how limited disabled-focused narratives are, particularly led by queer women.

The Shape of the Pain is a beautiful play, one that I have returned to again and again. The only thing I missed was the joy. Disabled stories are so frequently sanitized and sad, so I wrote Snow Shoes to see just how fun a play about disability could be.