About Me
Sydney Zarlengo (they/them) is an openly queer, trans/non-binary, disabled, and autistic multi-hyphenate working toward integrating accessibility and inclusion into mainstream theaters and educational spaces, as well as recontextualizing history through a disability lens. They are most known for staging the world’s first all-neurodivergent cast & crew production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and creating the subsequent documentary.
Their hyphens include:
Actor - Dramaturg - Composer - Video Essayist - Disability Educator - Theatre Access Reviewer
Full bio: Sydney Zarlengo (they/them) is an openly queer, trans non-binary, disabled, and autistic multi-hyphenate actor - dramaturg - composer - video essayist - disability educator - theatrical access reviewer. They received a BA from Mount Holyoke College in 2023 with a double major in psychology and theater. They also completed a semester-long physical theater intensive at Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Sydney’s undergraduate thesis focused on accessible arts education, culminating in the world’s first all-neurodivergent cast and crew production of The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time and subsequent documentary.
Now based in New York City, Sydney is composing for a new musical, making public access reviews of shows for disabled theatergoers, teaching educators at various universities how to create accessible classrooms and accessible art, recently dramaturged a PlayOn Shakespeare workshop, and is working on a video series unpacking the history of disability in the modern theatre canon.
Regardless of medium, their work focuses on looking at the world differently and appreciating every aspect of what it means to be alive - through the beautiful, the messy, and the beautifully messy - with the goal of integrating accessibility and inclusion into mainstream theaters and educational spaces.
When they’re not working, Sydney can be found reading disability representation, talking about vintage fashion, photographing wildlife, and pulling things apart to learn how they fit back together.
Get in touch!
Contact: disabled.autistic.lesbian@gmail.com
Instagram: @disabled.autistic.lesbian
TikTok: @disabledautisticlesbian
YouTube: Sydney Zarlengo