Welcome to Disability Awesome. Each week, this post will feature a person or persons with mental and / or physical disabilities who are doing awesome things! As someone with an disability, I love it when others when disabilities do great things!

In March, Jenna Bainbridge will be the first wheelchair user to play the role of Nessarose in “Wicked” on Broadway. Her announcement comes months after Marisa Bode, who also uses a wheelchair in real life, portrayed Nessa in the blockbuster film.

“We need to hear disabled stories,” Bainbridge said. “We need to see them on our stages.”

Bainbridge is used to making history — last spring she was the first wheelchair user to originate a role on Broadway in “Suffs the Musical.” And yet she wasn’t always sure she’d get a chance to pursue acting as an adult.

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