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Carving Out a Welcoming Void for representation Disabled
Hearing near vision challenges prompt learner to begin advocacy agency at Rutgers
Courtesy of Mital Gajjar
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Santina Muha
Hi! I've been a student/performer with UCB for over 2 years. I've worked under Brian Finklestein, Amanda Sitko, Susannah Beckett, Mike Still, Joe Wengert, Eugene Cordero, Billy Merritt, Drew Difonzo Marks, Suzi Barrett, Joel Spence, Will McClaughlin, Mary Holland, Deb Tarica, Matt Newell, Nick Mandernach.....JUST TO NAME A FEW... I'm on the UCB Harold team LANDLORD and on several indie teams I love to perform with! I'm also a recipient of the UCB Diversity Scholarship so let me know if you have any questions about that program! I've taken several advanced study classes and have done months of improv bootcamp! I've also had a solo show running at the theater since May 2014! I'd love to coach your practice group or indie team! And I'm from the east coast so I'll bring that flavor ;) Message me if you wanna play! And now I feel like I'm writing a dating website bio, so I'm gonna stop here.
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
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When Santina Muha appeared on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” in 2007, the producers asked which chair she’d rather use: her own, or the studio’s.
“I asked if anyone else in a wheelchair had ever been on the show,” said the actress, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident when she was 6 years old. “They said no, so I said, ‘I’ll stay in my wheelchair.’ “
Days after the two-part episode aired, a woman told Muha that her young son, who also uses a wheelchair, was so inspired by seeing the actress on television, she let him stay home from school the next day to watch the conclusion.
“I was on TV for, like, 10 minutes, and I got fan mail from other countries,” Muha said. “Disability needs to be normalized.”
As debates rage over what characters should appear on screen, and who should portray them, disabilities have largely remained undiscussed. Meanwhile, conversations concerning on-screen representations involving gender, race and sexual orientation have gained so much traction in recent years, A-listers have abandoned roles in response to online outrage. Scarlett Johansson, for example, exited the upcoming drama “Rub and Tug” last year, after being criticized