instead of alienating the actor and their disabilities. The goal of the Brecht model is to make the audience think critically about their presumptions about disabilities. Regular attendees of the Phamaly Theatre Company claim that the performers' disabilities go to the back of their minds as they watch performances until the script requires them to consider the experience of inaccessibility. 2007-2022 Since the fall of 2008, PTC produced a series of sketch comedy productions entitled . Performed by Phamaly artists, these cabaret-style shows consist of original comedic, dramatic, and musical material written in a workshop over several weeks before being performed. The 2011 version – – received numerous awards and nominations from Denver theatre critics, including one for Best Director for Edith Weiss, who originated the series. Year after year, PTC continued to win community awards. 2012 saw another original comedy series titled marked the company's debut appearance in the city of Boulder, Colorado, and recurred for two years in 2013 and 2014. Then, as Bryce Alexander took over as artistic director, Phamaly traveled to Osaka, Japan to present its first international performance The Fantasticks (2015). The production won Denver Mayor's Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture. In 2016, Regan Linton became the first person with a disability to be artistic director as well as the "first wheelchair user to head a major U.S. theatre company". Through the development of Morph Masters: How Disability Made Famous Artists Awesome! (2019), PTC collaborated with Phamaly actors to present a show that focuses on famous artists who live(d) and work(ed) with a disability. PTC was awarded Best Theater for the Classics by Best of Denver 2020 Westword. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, PTC stayed resilient. Utilizing the unpredictability and adaptability of the disabled experience became their advantage, PTC created accessible and inclusive online programming for artists and audiences. Along with the launch reading salons which gave Phamaly actors the change to read classic and contemporary works, the art company also developed a web series known as Rewrite- which views classics from a disability perspective. success stories Two members of – Regan Linton and Jason Dorwart – have gone on to earn, respectively, a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting and a PhD in Theatre and Drama, both through the University of California, San Diego. In fact, Regan Linton was the first actor in a wheelchair admitted into this MFA