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Breaking Character

Breaking Character explores disability representation through the eyes of six performers with disabilities trying to make it onto the screen, stage, comedy club circuit, and runway.

Breaking Character

Breaking Character explores disability representation through the eyes of six performers with disabilities trying to make it onto the screen, stage, comedy club circuit, and runway.

  • Meet Caeden

    Meet Caeden

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive, Caeden, who is hard of hearing, heads to Circle Square Ranch to refresh his "special skills" on his acting CV.

  • Meet Catherine

    Meet Catherine

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive: Before their rehearsal, Catherine, an actress and filmmaker who is Deaf, meets with her friend Aniko to teach her the intricacies of American Sign Language.

  • Photographer Caroline Acton

    Photographer Caroline Acton

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive: Wonder why Alexia trusted Poze Photography with her headshots? Find out more about photographer Caroline Acton and how living with a spinal cord injury has formed the way she approaches photography.

  • Meet Rachel

    Meet Rachel

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive: Rachel, a model with a connective tissue disorder, experiments with trusted editorial photographer Bish Upvety, pushing themself to the limit to prove what they can do.

  • Meet Alexia

    Meet Alexia

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive, Alexia, the first little person to graduate from theatre school in Ontario, works with an animator to design character concepts for her Voice Over demo reel.

  • Meet Tai

    Meet Tai

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive Tai, a teen actor/performer, practices for a driver's test with his best friend, Amy, and shares his frustrations about the extra hurdles he faces just because he uses a wheelchair.

  • Courtney Gilmour

    Courtney Gilmour

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive: Why does Dan turn to Courtney for stand-up advice? Courtney Gilmour, a congenital amputee, is one of the top comedians in Canada.

  • Meet Dan

    Meet Dan

    Duration: minutes and seconds

    In this Breaking Character digital exclusive Dan, a blind comedian, adventurer and storyteller, subverts expectations when he goes axe throwing with his partner, Michelle.