Alan works as a solo-artist in theatre. He uses a non-traditional development method, called Performance Creation, to produce original one-act plays. Alan is inspired by the conventions arising from the global disability arts and culture movement. This movement advances a cultural practice where artists represent their lived experience of disability as complex, dynamic, and infused with a range of concerns that include hopes and dreams, self-worth and autonomy, sexuality and relationships, and social barriers to disability. Alan’s shows therefore focus on shaping a rich and authentic human connection between a physically disabled character and abled-bodied audiences.

Alan’s plays reveal a new cultural consciousness, one that stretches dominant narratives of disability. He encourages audiences to identify and resonate with his disabled character – to really see and know him, from his own perspective, rather than from theirs. In response, Alan asks audiences to see and know themselves – especially the ways that we unintentionally shape and support negative attitudes about disabled people. Alan confronts audiences about these stereotypes, and uses humor to make it possible for us to laugh at the situations he’s challenged by. While laughing together, both actor and audience get to discover just what it is that stops us all from genuine personal and social interaction with disabled people.