By Joe Gambino
22 Nov 2015
Ali Stroker has been rolling with the punches (literally, as she puts it) since she was two years old, but has proven time and again that nothing can stand in her way. She opens up about making her Broadway debut — and history — as the first actress to rock a wheelchair on the Great White Way in this season’s Spring Awakening.
“Alright, I’ve got to find my way in. I’ve got find a way in,” says Ali Stroker of the challenges she faces on a daily basis. Stroker, who made her Broadway debut as Anna in Spring Awakening, says that the main obstacle she faces in her daily life is fear. “We have a lot of fear to deal with. About what someone can and can’t do and about our ideas of what is possible.”
So, how does an actress who uses a wheelchair find her way “in” and push past the fear?
“I’ve just decided to completely surrender and own it and be creative and let it stump me and let it take people places,” she says.
– See more at: https://www.playbill.com/news/article/this-is-how-i-roll-literally-ali-stroker-on-auditioning-the-same-way-she-dates-and-making-history-on-broadway-372809#sthash.mKx4f5pX.dpuf
