Artist and company profiles
This is a list of professional Deaf and disabled artists, or disabled-led companies, who are actively seeking international partners and opportunities. Each artist or company currently has work ready to tour or for exhibition. We are proud to list companies from all over the world.
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Abnormally Funny People
Tags: Comedy
Abnormally Funny People perform stand up comedy shows in London, the Edinburgh Fringe, around the UK and sometimes internationally. Read more
Academy Art of Diversity: Teatro la Ribalta
Academy Art of Diversity - Teatro la Ribalta are a professional theatre company in which disabled and non-disabled artists work as an ensemble. Read more
Aaron McPeake
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Aaron is a sculptor who works with a variety of media and materials including film. Much of Aaron's work involves casting bell-bronze, creating sculptures that can be interacted with, touched and ‘rung’. Read more
Access All Areas
Award winning, disruptive and urban performances by learning disabled artists. Read more
ActionSpace
Tags: Visual Arts
ActionSpace supports the development of artists with learning disabilities and creates innovative projects for people with learning disabilities to engage with the visual arts. Read more
Aidan Moesby
Tags: Live Art, Visual Arts
Aidan Moesby is a visual artist and curator whose work increasingly explores civic and personal wellbeing. His practice is based around research and response, much of which is underpinned through conversations. He works extensively within arts and health, especially where art, technology and wellbeing intersect. Read more
Alessandro Schiattarella
Tags: Dance
Alessandro Schiattarella is a dancer, choreographer and video-grapher based in Switzerland, and his research focuses on less-visible disability. Read more
Anjali Dance Company
Tags: Dance
Anjali Dance Company celebrates the creative abilities and artistic potential of people with learning disabilities and demonstrates exciting new possibilities in dance. Read more
Anna Berndtson
Tags: Dance, Live Art, Theatre, Visual Arts
Performance is the foundation of my artistic practice, working foremost with Long Duration Live Performance Art. The public is essential in my work, as their presence becomes part of the live experience. Being present over several hours or even over several days is the main challenge in this art form. Read more
Artistas Diversos
Tags: Dance, Visual Arts
Artistas Diversos is an NGO that produces and exhibits the work of disabled artists covering all types of artistic expression, from all over the world - free of charge for the artist. Read more
BewegGrund, Switzerland
Tags: Dance
BewegGrund stands for equal rights, self-determination, equal opportunities and integration. Read more
Bohnice Theatre Company
Tags: Theatre
The BTC is based in the Citadela Studio - a cultural social studio, an experimental meeting point for a wide range of artists, students, youth and children as well as people facing exclusion Read more
Caglar Kimyoncu
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Improvisation-led filmmaker, curator and consultant with a continued interest in alternative representations of excluded voices of all kinds including conscientious objection. Read more
Candoco Dance Company
Tags: Dance
Candoco produces excellent and profound contemporary dance for audiences and participants that excites, challenges and broadens perceptions of art and ability. Read more
Caroline Bowditch
Tags: Dance, Live Art, Theatre
Australian-born but now Glasgow-based performance artist and choreographer, Caroline Bowditch describes herself as a performer, maker, teacher, speaker and mosquito buzzing in the ears of the arts industry in the UK and further afield. Read more
Cathy Waller Company
Cathy Waller Company produce explosive and vibrant contemporary dance work that incorporates live music and original composition Read more
Chelle Destefano
Tags: Visual Arts
Chelle is an established Visual Artist, having graduated with a bachelor in Visual Arts and Applied Design in 2007. Read more
CiM Dance Company
Professional, contemporary, dance company which joins together interpreters with and without disability, promoting a unique approach to inclusion while aiming for high artistic standards. Read more
Claire Cunningham
Tags: Dance
Performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance work, often rooted in the study and use/misuse of her crutches, and the exploration of the potentiality of her own specific physicality. Read more
Corali Dance Company
Corali’s performances are generated through collaborative discussion and improvisation and our embedded experience and achievement has led us to become recognised as a leader in dance and performance made by artists with learning disabilities. Read more
Dançando com a Diferença
Tags: Dance, Film, Live Art, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
Institution whose main goal is to promote social inclusion and culture through inclusive dance. Read more
Deafinitely Theatre
Tags: Theatre
Deafinitely Theatre is the UK’s leading deaf theatre company. Established in 2002 by Artistic Director and co-founder, Paula Garfield, it produces bilingual theatre in British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English. Read more
Deaf Men Dancing
A unique and exciting dance company of all male, highly trained professional dancers who are all deaf. Read more
Diverse City
Cultural entrepreneurs working for social change through the performing arts, creating shows profiling the abilities of diverse groups. Read more
Dr Ju Gosling aka ju90
Tags: Dance, Film, Live Art, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Visual Arts
Artist working mainly with digital lens-based media, but also with performance, text and sound. Read more
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier (founded in 2000, artistic director Maja Hehlen) is a DanceAbility Dance Company open to everybody. Read more
Epic Arts
Tags: Dance, Theatre, Visual Arts
Epic Arts uses the arts as a powerful tool for transformation that explores and celebrates the richness of diversity through creative experiences. We work with people of all abilities and backgrounds through our Inclusive Education, Community and Social Enterprise Programmes to encourage a change in perceptions and attitudes at both a personal, and public level. Read more
Estela Lapponi
Tags: Dance, Live Art, Theatre, Visual Arts
Estela Lapponi is an actress, dancer, creator / performer, choreographer, artistic director, producer and Brazilian video artist. Read more
Fingersmiths
Tags: Theatre
Bold choices in creating a unique theatre form, connecting with audiences through a multi-layered approach to language and physical expression. Read more
Fittings Multimedia Arts
Tags: Comedy, Dance, Film, Live Art, Music, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Theatre, Visual Arts
Disability-led national organisation that makes popular theatre characterised by directness, comedy, music, emotion and immediacy, working with material, performers and artists, reflecting the UK's diverse cultures. Read more
Folk in Motion
Tags: Dance
Wheelchair dance company which has developed and performs an adapted form of English folk dancing, 'wolk'. Disabled folk musicians appear as guest artists. Read more
Graeae Theatre Company
Tags: Theatre
A force for change in world-class theatre, breaking down barriers, challenging preconceptions and boldly placing disabled artists centre stage; championing accessibility and providing a platform for new generations of Deaf and disabled talent. Read more
Heart & Sold
Tags: Visual Arts
Heart & Sold supports creative people who happen to have Down syndrome. Its aim is to educate, inspire, raise awareness and prove that these individuals can do or be whatever they want to be. Read more
Heart n Soul
Tags: Live Art, Music, Theatre
Award-winning creative arts company which provides creative spaces for disabled and non-disabled artists to develop and share their ideas. Read more
Hijinx Theatre
Tags: Theatre
Creating utterly absorbing theatre performed by actors with and without learning disabilities. Touring to theatres, festivals and communities in the UK and Europe. Read more
Iddo.act
Tags: Architecture, Live Art, Theatre
Iddo.act is a Tel-Aviv based company; led by Iddo Gruengard with international participants. Iddo.act's work uses the prism of disability to challenge different subjects, observing disability as the new avant garde. Read more
Indepen-dance
Tags: Dance
Established and highly respected inclusive dance development company with a unique place within the dance community in Scotland. Read more
Jo Verrent
Tags: Film
‘Different’ is delicious not divergent. A speaker, writer and activist, who also creates, produces and curates art. Read more
Joe Jack et John
Tags: Theatre
Joe Jack et John works with actors cast from all horizons; actors with disabilities, actors of diverse cultures, ages and origins. It wishes to offer the public a new voice that is little heard, in order to create a space for reflection to humanize Otherness. Read more
Juan delGado
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Works across a range of media including installation and photography to producing work that explores themes of trauma, landscape, disability, dislocation and gender. Read more
Kaite O’Reilly
Tags: Dance, Literature, Theatre
Kaite O’Reilly is a UK-based playwright and theatre maker who works internationally in disability arts and culture and so-called ‘mainstream’ culture. Read more
Katherine Araniello
Tags: Film, Live Art, Music, Visual Arts
Katherine Araniello is a London-based performance and video artist, who uses subversive humour in response to the mundane, social awkwardness and the negative representation of disability. Read more
Krazy Kat Theatre Company
Tags: Theatre
Creating visual theatre for young audiences with original use of sign language. Read more
Laurence Clark
Tags: Comedy, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Theatre
Internationally-acclaimed comedian, presenter, writer and actor who has cerebral palsy. Read more
Mind The Gap
Tags: Live Art, Music, Theatre
Powerful, bold, award-winning theatre, from learning disabled and non-disabled artists working in partnership Read more
Moomsteatern
Swedish learning-disability theatre company whose sole aim is to produce performing arts of high artistic quality Read more
Olivier Jamin
Tags: Visual Arts
Olivier Jamin is a Contemporary Artist who has been Deaf since birth and has had a long life passion for the arts. Read more
Platform-K
Tags: Dance
In all of our dance projects, Platform-K challenges disabled and non-disabled artists to work together and create new art forms; dance and movement languages. Read more
Per.Art
Tags: Dance, Film, Literature, Theatre, Visual Arts
Per.Art is an independent organization active in the field of contemporary performing arts in Serbia. Since 1999, our Art and Inclusion program has brought together people with learning disabilities, artists (theatre, dance and visual arts), special educators, representatives of cultural institutions, architects and students. Read more
Plural Inclusive Dance Company
Tags: Dance
Promoting artistic collaboration between dance professionals, dance students and non-professionals, disabled and non-disabled artists, that share and create dance visions standing out for Diversity. Read more
Rachel Gadsden
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
Rachel is a British artist who is exhibited internationally and who works across the mainstream and disability art sectors, presenting cross-cultural visual dialogues that consider the most profound notions of what it is to be human. Read more
Ramesh Meyyappan
Tags: Theatre
Glasgow-based Singaporean, deaf theatre maker who develops performances using an eclectic mix of visual and physical theatre styles. Read more
Robert Softley
Tags: Comedy, Live Art, Theatre
Established figure in the Scottish arts scene with varied roles including actor, performer, writer and artistic director. Read more
Shadowlight Artists
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Multi-award-winning collective of Oxfordshire-based digital artists with learning disabilities Read more
Shape
Tags: Dance, Live Art, Visual Arts
Shape is a disability-led arts organisation founded on the principle that all disabled people should have the opportunity to participate fully in arts and culture, and works with the vision of an inspiring and inclusive arts sector that is accessible to all. Read more
ShareMusic & Performing Arts
Tags: Dance, Film, Live Art, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
Swedish artist development organisation that works internationally Read more
Sick and Twisted
Tags: Theatre
Sick + Twisted is a theatre company dedicated to creating work exploring the experience of living with a disability. Read more
Signdance Collective International
Award winning international touring performance company, whose creative directors David Bower and Isolte Avila began creating and developing signdance theatre in 1987. Read more
Simon Mckeown
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
Simon McKeown is an award winning internationally exhibiting visual artist renowned for his work which touches on and considers disability. Read more
Spare Tyre
Spare Tyre is a leading participatory arts company based in London, which creates and tours work across the UK and beyond. Read more
Stay Up Late
Tags: Music
Charity that promotes full and active social lives for people with learning disabilities. Read more
Stopgap Dance Company
Tags: Dance
Creates exhilarating dance productions of international standard, employing disabled and non-disabled artists who find innovative ways to collaborate. Read more
Sue Austin
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
Sue Austin is a multimedia, performance and installation artist. Over an extended period of time her practice has operated as a vehicle to open up a thinking space around the materiality of the wheelchair. Read more
SZENE 2WEI
Tags: Dance, Theatre, Visual Arts
SZENE 2WEI implements bodily specificities as a medium in dance Read more
Tanya Raabe
Tags: Live Art, Visual Arts
Tanya Raabe-Webber is an acclaimed disabled artist challenging the notion of identity within contemporary portraiture, often creating portraits of high profile disabled people during live sittings in high profile public art galleries and venues. Read more
Tanzbar Bremen
Tanzbar Bremen creates big scale contemporary dance productions as well as experimental works as a group of mixed-abled dancers, choreographers, creative artists and dance educators Read more
THE.AM.A. (Theatre for People with Disabilities)
THE.AM.A was established in 2010 as a professional integrated theatre group, which aspires to establish the first Greek Higher School of Drama for people with all disabilities. Read more
The British Paraorchestra
Pioneering a global movement to showcase disabled musicians with extraordinary abilities. Its mission is to end the limitations placed on them, not by their physical ability but by lack of opportunity. Read more
The Vacuum Cleaner
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
the vacuum cleaner is an art and activism collective of one. Working across art-forms: including performance, installation and film, the artist addresses challenging and taboo issues such as consumerism and mental health. Read more
Together! 2012
Tags: Comedy, Dance, Fashion, Film, Literature, Live Art, Music, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Theatre, Visual Arts
Working to make the main host borough of Newham an international centre of excellence for Disability Arts as part of the Paralympic cultural legacy. Read more
Tony Heaton
Tags: Visual Arts
Tony Heaton is a Visual Artist/Sculptor and Curator who works in a variety of materials from direct carving to assemblage and film. Much of his work reflects and responds to a disabling world. Read more
Vital Xposure
Tags: Film, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Theatre
Cutting edge theatre and vital stories. Read more
