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Sep 9, 2006

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." --Anne Lamott

Theater For The Disabled

Belfast, Maine, is home to a Jesuit brother named Rick Curry, whose breads are making headlines and whose National Theater Workshop of the Handicapped is making history. Born without a right forearm, Bro. Curry's parents taught him to never use his handicap as an excuse. The concept for the National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped came after he was turned down for a role in a mouthwash commercial because of his disability, and later that same year, in 1977, Brother Curry founded the NTWH in a lower Manhattan loft to help disabled people find their strengths in acting, music, dance, art and writing. Since the opening of the NTWH in Manhattan, the workshop has expanded its walls to include a summer workshop, fine arts gallery, and a bakery in Belfast, ME whose proceeds go to support the theater.