Stage the Change  Presents our 2023 Conference Keynote Speaker:
Ali Stroker!

Ali Stroker won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as ‘Ado Annie’ in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! She next stars as a series regular in Netflix’s upcoming limited series, Echoes. She made history as the first actor in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway in Deaf West’s acclaimed 2015 revival of Spring Awakening. Film and television include The Glee Project, Fox’s Glee, Ozark, Only Murders in the Building, Ten Days in the Valley, Blue Bloods, The Bold Type, Lethal Weapon, and many more She co-wrote a novel published in 2021, The Chance to Fly, a middle-grade novel about a theater-loving girl who uses a wheelchair. Her mission to improve the lives of others through the arts, disabled or not, is captured in her motto: “Turning Your Limitations Into Your Opportunities.”

Conference Day Schedule

8:00-8:25
Registration and Breakfast

8:30-9:30
Welcome and Student Performances 

9:45-11:00
Workshop Sessions I

11:00-11:45
Lunch

12:00-1:15
Workshop Sessions II

1:15-2:30
Guest Speaker ALI STROKER

2:30- 3:00
Final Performances, Closing Remarks
Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at The New York Community Trust, Long Island; The New York Community Trust 
and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the
New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. 
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