Lisa Carling

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About Lisa Carling

LISA CARLING helps design and implement services that make theatre performances more accessible to people with disabilities on Broadway, Off Broadway and nationwide. She runs a department that provides autism friendly, open captioned, sign language interpreted, audio described performances, as well as seating for theatergoers with mobility disabilities. She also oversees the TDF Veterans Theatregoing Program to ensure NYC's vets have the accessibility accommodations they need when attending shows.The department assists regional theatres across the country in starting their own captioning and sensory friendly programming and provides grants to assist New York State cultural organization in hosting events for people with hearing disabilities. Lisa served on the Shubert Organization’s Audience Services Advisory Committee for implementation of GalaPro, an app that provides on demand closed captioning and audio description; and currently serves on Bridge Multimedia's Advisory Group to review broadcast audio description for programming K-12. As a speaker, she shares her experience in the accessibility field on theatre industry panels, at arts and disability conferences, BroadwayCon and the first ever Broadway Accessibility Summit. In her previous career, Lisa performed with Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT, and CSC Repertory Theatre in New York, as well in the TV and film industry. Let life’s journey take you where your talents lead!