In light of the controversy surrounding Sia casting the neurotypical actress Maddie Ziegler in her movie “Music,” here are five actually autistic actors you should be following now.
1.Mickey Rowe Mickey Rowe was the first autistic actor to play Christopher Boone in the Tony-Award winning play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” This also made him the first known autistic actor to ever play any autistic character in a professional performance setting.
He has also played the title character in the Tony-Award winning play “Amadeus.” He has been seen in the New York Times, PBS, Teen Vogue, NPR, HuffPost and has spoken at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, at Yale School of Drama, on Broadway and more.
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