Spring Awakening's Ali Stroker, Broadway's First Actor in a Wheelchair, Wants to Channel Kylie Jenner

Spring Awakening’s Ali Stroker is looking to recreate Kylie Jenner's recent, and now notorious, Interview photo shoot, where the reality star posed in a wheelchair. Stroker, who has made history as the first actor in a wheelchair on Broadway, is reportedly not offended by the pictures. “I’m really excited about it, because it’s bringing a lot of conversation about sexuality and disability,” the Main Stem star told Variety.

“I feel so strongly that we can represent ourselves here,” Stroker went on to say. “It’s something that doesn’t get a spotlight, and therefore has created pain and fetish and resentment and not feeling powerful in your sexuality. I’ve had my own journey with it, obviously, and I feel like it’s so important that it’s shared.”

Stroker was a finalist on season two of The Glee Project and then played Artie’s love interest on the fifth season of Glee. She is a graduate of New York University and the first person in a wheelchair to graduate from Tisch’s drama program.

Stroker is on the hunt for a photographer to reconstruct Jenner’s shoot; you can currently catch her as Anna in Deaf West's revival of the Tony-winning tuner at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.