Accessibility

At Silk Moth Stage, accessibility is a core value.

Our location is similar to other outdoor venues. We aim to match or exceed the accessibility of typical outdoor theater productions.

Accessibility for audience

Finding Silk Moth Stage is pretty easy. We will provide you with directions via email when you buy your ticket. We also have large directional signs to help you find it.

We offer accessible parking adjacent to the seating area. We also rent a handicapped-accessible porta-potty. In this picture, the car is in the best accessible spot (we have accessible parking for up to five vehicles, but this is the best one). In the empty space to the left is where the porta-potty goes.

A photo of a gray car parked on the right side of a concrete slab. There is an empty parking spot to the left of the car. To the right of the car, you can see the Silk Moth Stage.

While it’s possible to watch the show, which takes place on the porch of the house, from the parking slab (which is about 25′ from the stage), the official audience seating is in the lawn, which is flat, firm, and mown. The best seats are about 15 feet from the accessible parking.

We offer ASL interpretation for 15% of our performances, and virtual captioning (what’s that?) for 30% of our performances. We also have a team member who is trained to do audio description for people who are blind or have low vision, and beginning in 2025, will offer his for 15% of our performances.

If you have any accessibility needs, we have a spot to share those in the checkout page for our ticket sales site.

Those needs could include:

  • A volunteer to help you carry your chair and get it set up
  • Extra close seating (our actors are not amplified, but they are very loud. A Deaf audience member who uses hearing aids and lip reads was able to hear and understand everything).
  • Financial accessibility: We offer free tickets for volunteering. And if our volunteering options aren’t accessible to you, just let us know. We have a donor fund earmarked for free tickets to create financial accessibility.
  • We also offer this social story to help neurodiverse audience members prepare for performances in our unusual space.
  • All of our performances are sensory-friendly. You are welcome to shift your position to a place that is more comfortable for you, and to get up and move around. We do not use any lighting effects or loud amplification.
  • Other things. One core principle of accessibility at Silk Moth is that we can’t know what you need. But if you tell us what you need, we can probably figure it out together.

Accessibility for artists

Many theater spaces are ADA compliant for audience members, but they often do not provide the same level of accessibility for artists. At Silk Moth, we include an “accessibility” line item in every show budget, and we believe that accessibility goes beyond ADA compliance. We want our opportunities to be accessible to all artists. Accessibility money can be used to help with babysitting or transportation, pay to have a large-format version of the script created, build a temporary ramp onto the stage, or anything else an artist needs to do their best work.

Support accessibility

If you would like to support Silk Moth Stage’s efforts to create accessible theater experiences, you can make a donation to our accessibility fund now. We appreciate your help to fund this important work.