Alan's performance disciplines include theatre, storytelling, dance and stand-up comedy – all specific to the representation of the lived experience of disability. His work explores disability in terms of relationships - relationships within peer groups at school, work and in the community, relationships within intimacy and family, as well as relationships with personal hopes, dreams and desires. Mainstream culture often treats disability as separate from all other life experiences such as falling in love, merging one's life with another, and raising a family. But disabled people have something unique to say about these types of experiences – and it’s the very experience of living with a disability that makes those stories important to tell.

Popular culture typically portrays disability as a tragic affliction within, or set upon, the individual. Specific to theatre, storytelling and performance, disabled characters are most often defined by this presumed weakness or flaw and their struggle to overcome this negative characteristic or “affliction”. Alan's performances stand in direct opposition to this popular framing of disability. He instead tells fuller truths about disability by examining the socio-political context of personal and cultural identity.

Alan’s intention is to advance a vision of social equality that embraces disability. His artistic work is founded on a deep commitment to disability activism and taking personal responsibility for creating change. Knowing all too well the transformative power of performance, his heart is profoundly committed to broadening our cultural notions of beauty, power, and community – thereby broadening our ideas around disability - through the performing arts.