I continue to co-chair the I.AM.PWD Campaign (Inclusion in the Arts & Media of People With Disabilities)  with Robert David Hall of CSI. Please visit www.iampwd.org to learn about this dynamic 3-year PR campaign to transform performers with disability into performers with visibility. 

Our Watchdog action group for the campaign has a Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iampwdmediamonitor/where people can report what they've seen in the media, regarding disability, both positive & negative. We appreciate any and all input.

As a National Board Member of AFTRA, I'm presently working on upcoming contract negotiations.

Photos from BASS FOR PICASSO

2010 has been very busy, beginning with shooting Law & Order: SVU (my 2nd L&O in 6 months!) and appearing in Rich Maxwell's ADS at Performance Space 122. More about this fascinating project can be found at: www.nycplayers.org

In April/May, I appeared Off-Broadway in the World Premiere of Kate Moira Ryan's BASS FOR PICASSO  with Theatre Breaking Through Barriers, in which I played a one-legged lesbian food writer for the NY Times. Reviews & Features about the show are on the Press page and more info about the company is at: www.tbtb.org

June found me traveling to 3 cities in 12 days: first stop Cleveland, where the Silo Theatre was dedicated to my father and I sang a song I wrote for him called Beyond; next stop Washington DC, where I performed my original 1-woman musical STILL STANDING at the Shakespeare Theatre (see video above and feature article on the Press page); and last stop wonderful Chicago, for the Theatre Communications Group annual conference, speaking on a panel set up by Actors Equity about breaking down barriers for performers with disabilities in the theatre. Also in June, my children's choir went into the studio and recorded five of my original songs for our CD called Holidays & Holy Days.

July will find me in Hollywood! I'll be speaking and singing for LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACCESS!, an event set up by the Labor Dept. about employment of people with disabilities in the film and TV industry, after which I'll chair meetings for the IAMPWD campaign and participate in a strategy retreat for the second half of this 3-year campaign (because July marks our halfway point).

Looking forward to the Fall, when I will be doing STILL STANDING at Kent State University, which is particularly moving for me, this being the 40th anniversary of the Kent State tragedy, my Dad having served as a lawyer on the trials that followed.

On the family front, daughter Holland Hamilton just finished studying this year at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic and the Center for Global Education in Namibia & South Africa, thus becoming an Honors candidate in both her majors, Theatre & African American Studies, at Oberlin College. In 9 months she traveled 50,000 miles. Husband Paul Hamilton is presently appearing in Adam Marple's production of Shakespeare's HENRY VI Part 3 at CSC Rep with Wide-Eyed Productions.