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Amelia Cavallo


Amelia Cavallo

Amelia Cavallo is a visually impaired, USA born actor, singer, musician, circus aerialist and aspiring academic. As a performer, Amelia has worked with various companies throughout the UK including Graeae Theatre, The Raven Theatre Company, Extant Theatre, Future Ruins and Natural Diversions. She also worked as a sway pole performer in the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony, and conversely as a burlesque artist for Criptease Unlimited as part of the Southbank’s Unlimited festival. Amelia is currently a Phd candidate at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama researching the potential normative structures in acting processes via disability studies and crip theory.


Articles by Amelia Cavallo


Imaginary Review: The Occupation Army of Cripples
29 April 2020
Reviews • Imaginary Reviews

Imaginary Review: The Occupation Army of Cripples

By Amelia Cavallo

Amelia Cavallo completes Greyscale and Exeunt’s imaginary reviews series with “a glimpse of what crip utopia could look like”.


Review: Our Country’s Good at Theatre Royal Stratford East
30 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: Our Country’s Good at Theatre Royal Stratford East

25 April - 5 May 2018
By Amelia Cavallo

Ramps on the Moon’s Deaf and disabled-led revision of a classic doesn’t go far enough, writes Amelia Cavallo.


Review: Shoot the Sissy at the Chelsea Theatre
20 October 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe

Review: Shoot the Sissy at the Chelsea Theatre

Chelsea Theatre ⋄ 18th and 19th October 2016
By Amelia Cavallo

Power through vulnerability: Amelia Cavallo reviews Nando Messias’ new work at the And What? Queer Arts Festival.


A Note on Rio: Helping Hands, Tough Times
18 October 2016
Features • Opinion

A Note on Rio: Helping Hands, Tough Times

By Amelia Cavallo

A very interesting time to find yourself in Rio: Amelia weighs up the experience of visiting the city this summer with the Cultural Olympiad and Graeae.


I Am Not A Superhuman – So Stop Saying It!
10 October 2016
Features • Opinion

I Am Not A Superhuman – So Stop Saying It!

By Amelia Cavallo

Watching the Paralympics, people remark at how amazing athletes are – often for doing exactly what we deter disabled bodies from doing every day.


What is A Superhuman Anyway?
11 August 2016
Features • Opinion

What is A Superhuman Anyway?

By Amelia Cavallo

A look at the new Channel 4 advert for the Rio Paralympics and the notion of meeting the “superhumans” in their follow-up to the 2012 ad.


Audio Description: Ramps on the Moon
27 June 2016
Features • Opinion

Audio Description: Ramps on the Moon

By Amelia Cavallo

Amelia Cavallo has seen initiatives for Deaf and Disabled performers like Ramps on The Moon come and go with little effect, but she’s found plenty of signs to be hopeful in the company’s production of The Government Inspector.


Effortless: The Solid Life of Sugar Water and The Chairs
9 May 2016
Features • Opinion

Effortless: The Solid Life of Sugar Water and The Chairs

By Amelia Cavallo

In her latest column Amelia takes note of the successes of two recent disability-led productions.


Column: You Can’t Make This Shit Up
8 March 2016
Features • Opinion

Column: You Can’t Make This Shit Up

By Amelia Cavallo

On Stevie Wonder at the Grammys and what it means to interact with and react to disability politics and identity.


Column: Wicked Problems – A Response
15 February 2016
Features • Opinion

Column: Wicked Problems – A Response

By Amelia Cavallo

The relationship disability arts has with the mainstream is a tense, but exciting, tug-of-war.


A Place at the Table
6 January 2016
Features • Opinion

A Place at the Table

By Amelia Cavallo

Should disability arts aim for the “mainstream”?


What Will We Look Like?
20 November 2015
Features • Essays • Opinion

What Will We Look Like?

By Amelia Cavallo

Querying quotas: tokenism, the “able” disabled, and “pretty crips”.


Welcome to Flatland
28 April 2015
Features

Welcome to Flatland

By Amelia Cavallo

Amelia Cavallo on Extant Theatre’s innovative Flatland, an experiment in haptic theatre.


Safe Word
22 April 2015
Reviews • Performance

Safe Word

New Wimbledon Theatre ⋄ 11th April 2015
By Amelia Cavallo

Awakening the senses.


Finding Questions
3 March 2015
Features

Finding Questions

By Amelia Cavallo

Amelia Cavallo on the meaning of diversity and asking “how can we do better?”


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