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Mickey Rowe is an award-winning American actor who was born in 1988. He was the first autistic actor to play Christopher Boone in the Tony Award winning play "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time." This also made Rowe the first actor on the autism spectrum to play any autistic character.

Career
Rowe attended Seattle University for his MFA in Artistic Leadership.

Rowe is the founder and current co-executive director of the National Disability Theatre, which has produced theater with La Jolla Playhouse, The Goodman Theatre, and more. Rowe has keynoted at organizations including Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and the Yale School of Drama.

Rowe is known for appearing as the title character in Peter Shaffer's Tony Award winning play "Amadeus"; and as Christopher Boone in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the first autistic actor to do so." He regularly advocates for the arts and disability inclusion in publications such as Teen Vogue, The New York Times and Playbill, and has appeared on PBS.