Director’s Statement

To be honest, I had not always felt completely at ease with people with disabilities. But then I agreed to direct one of the Zack’s Place-Woodstock, VT annual musicals, and I was touched by a kind of magic that many people describe working or volunteering with the participants. After writing and directing two more of these musicals, I decided to try to share that magic with audiences by simply letting them experience a production from beginning to end just as I had.

My hope is that viewers will come to love these people like I do, and, perhaps, some will come together and wonder if their community, too, could start a center for their citizens with disabilities – a center that enriches not only the lives of its participants but the greater community as well.