Accessibility and Emit

Accessibility is a core tenant of Emit’s work.
If you have any access needs please reach out to our Accessibility Advocate, Lily Lipman, at LilyALipman@gmail.com

If possible, please reach out with 2 weeks notice so that we can start organizing the renting, purchasing, negotiating, or creating of whatever would make Emit easier for you!

If you can’t do that, don’t worry about it, please still reach out! Everyone deserves theater they can engage with and we’re going to do our best to make that happen. <3

Accessibility Guides

Emit’s Accessibility Advocate, Lily Lipman, developed these Accessibility Guides that our staff uses internally when developing curriculum, creating content for social media, and preparing for events. Other teaching artists and theatre companies are invited to use or adapt these guides for their own purposes.

Know Before You Go

What to expect when attending an Emit Theatre performance at El Barrio’s Artspace in Manhattan

Accommodations offered at performances

At All Performances

  • Sensory headphones

  • Fidgets

  • Large print programs

  • Chill room: A space with low sensory input that still feels like a part of the world of the play. Audience members can take a break in the Chill Room during performances as needed.

Lily, a white person with short brown hair, smiles in a green collared shirt in front of a yellow background

Lily (all the pronouns!) is a disabled freelance Access Artist and actor. They believe in creating spaces for disabled and d/Deaf people to find community and advocate for more accessible systems. They love talking with other disabled creatives and workers about advocating for change and using imagination in radical ways. If you’d like to chat with them feel free to reach out at LilyALipman@gmail.com

What to expect when attending an Emit Theatre Performance at bkOne’s Tom Kane Theatre in Industry City

At Immersive Productions

  • A character breakdown with photos of actors

  • A plot summary

  • Limited supply available to borrow: cell phone microphones (aux, iPhone, and Android compatible)

  • Limited supply available to borrow: an Android device

  • QR codes to download speech-to-text apps so that audience members can have live captions of the performance and their conversations with actors.

Two QR Codes for speech-to-text apps, on the left one for Otter ai for Apple, on the Right for Live Transcribe for Android

Download the Otter or Live Transcribe apps via the QR codes above.