Mickey Rowe
NATIONAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER | SPEAKER
As an autistic and legally blind person, Mickey Rowe became the first autistic actor to play the lead role in the Tony-Award winning play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, landed the title role in the play Amadeus, and founded the National Disability Theatre. He has been featured in the New York Times, the TODAY show, PBS, Vogue, NPR, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and more. He has keynoted at organizations including the Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Yale University, Columbia University, The Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, and the DAC of the South Korean government, and more.
KEYNOTE
Fearlessly Different: Our Differences Are Our Strengths
• From Special Education to Broadway
• Founding Artistic Director of the National Disability Theatre
• Featured by NY Times, TODAY show, Wall Street Journal
As an autistic and legally blind person, it was always made clear to Mickey Rowe the many things he was incapable of doing. But Mickey did them all anyway—and he succeeded because of, not despite, his autism. He became the first autistic actor to play the lead role in the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, landed the title role in the play Amadeus, and founded the National Disability Theatre. In this engaging keynote, Mickey inspires all of us—autistic and non-autistic alike—that the things that make us different are often our biggest strengths.