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VSA commissioned Ping Chong & Company to create Inside/Out…voices from the disability community, which premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in June 2008. Praised by the Washington Post as "compelling...riveting...consistently eye-opening," this production explores first-hand experiences of the disability community through personal narratives.

In March 2009, Inside/Out made its off-Broadway debut at TheTimesCenter Stage with the original cast. The New York production’s authentic and sometimes irreverent take on disability was very well-received, with sell-out audiences and standing ovations at each performance.

The Inside/Out script will be published in 2010 by Theatre Communications Group as part of a compilation of scripts from Ping Chong & Company’s Undesirable Elements project.

Audio Clips of the Cast

Click on the small arrow at the bottom left of each photo to hear the clip.

These oral history interviews were recorded as part of the StoryCorps VSA Initiative. Such interviews are property of and provided courtesy of StoryCorps (www.storycorps.net), a nationwide initiative of Sound Portraits Productions to record and collect oral history interviews. StoryCorps is a registered trademark of Sound Portraits Productions. Excerpts were selected and produced by VSA.

About Ping Chong & Company

Ping Chong & Company was founded in 1975 to create and tour innovative works of theater and art that explore the intersection of race, history, culture, and technology in the modern world. The New York based not-for-profit company has produced more than 70 works by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and his collaborators, toured widely in the United States and throughout the world, and received numerous honors and awards. Inside/Out is part of an ongoing series of community-specific, interview-based theater works known as the Undesirable Elements series. Undesirable Elements examines issues of race, class, culture, and identity in the lives of individuals. Since 1992 Ping Chong & Company has made over 40 productions in the series, in communities around the United States and abroad. For more information about Ping Chong & Company and the Undesirable Elements series, please visit www.pingchong.org and www.undesirableelements.org.