Headshot of actor Meredith Aleigha Wells, who has an ash blonde bob with bangs and striking blue eyes, featuring a warm expression, wearing a white Henley against a light blue background.
Headshot of actor Meredith Aleigha Wells, who has an ash blonde bob with bangs and striking blue eyes, featuring a warm expression, wearing a white Henley against a light blue background.

Meredith

aleigha

wells

Actor + Writer

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Own Your Magic,
Expand Your World

Meredith Aleigha Wells is a groundbreaking actor and writer best known for making history as the first wheelchair user to perform in a Broadway National Tour. Their work has been honored with nominations from the Walder Foundation and 3Arts Chicago, as well as the Purple Skies Playwright Award for their original one-person musical, Dysfunctioning Just Fine.

A versatile multidisciplinary artist, Meredith has performed regionally in productions at The Muny, The Kennedy Center, Seattle Rep, Music Theatre Works, Beck Center, and Cleveland Public Theatre. They have also made appearances at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Joe’s Pub, New York Theatre Workshop, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the Luminous Festival in Beijing, China.

In an age when algorithms and the attention economy perpetuate black-and-white thinking and divisiveness, Meredith is committed to using storytelling to remind us that we are all interconnected and that the human condition is much more nuanced.

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Musical Theatre production still from Through the Sunken Lands at The Kennedy Center featuring actor Meredith Aleigha Wells as Artemis, looking bewildered while staring a blue heron puppet on a rooftop setting.

Through the Sunken Lands @ The Kennedy Center

“Meredith Aleigha Wells employed superb technique as Artemis, skillfully conveying complicated plot points (both spoken and sung) with energy and clarity.”

-DC Theatre Arts

Sister Act @ The Muny

Production still from Sister Act at The Muny, featuring Meredith Aleigha Wells as Sister Mary Robert, singing with arms outstretched.
Production still from Sister Act at The Muny, featuring Meredith Aleigha Wells as Sister Mary Robert, singing with arms outstretched.

“Wells is a full and vibrant participant in the exhilarating choreography by director Denis Jones.”

— HEC Media

“a star-making performance by wheelchair-user Meredith Aleigha Wells”

— Pop Life STL

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! National Tour

“Wells's scenes were super-heartwarming and Wells fit in so well with the musical dance numbers.”—BroadwayWorld

Production still from the Broadway National Tour of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! the musical, featuring the full cast looking exuberant, posing at the end of a musical number in front of a red, pink, white, and black backdrop

The Little Mermaid @ Music Theatre Works

Musical Theatre production still from The Little Mermaid, featuring actor Meredith Aleigha Wells as Mersister Atina, looking radiant while dancing alongside the other mersisters in an under-the-sea set.
Musical Theatre production still from The Little Mermaid, featuring actor Meredith Aleigha Wells as Mersister Atina, looking radiant while dancing alongside the other mersisters in an under-the-sea set.

“Watch especially for Meredith Aleigha Wells. They use a wheelchair, and from that chair, bring Flaster’s choreography to life with grace, verve, and enough energy and spark to power eels.”

— Chicago Reader

Teenage Dick @ Seattle Rep

“They are a wheelchair user and I must say that after the first view of their work, I lost sight of the fact that they were in one.”

— Around The Town Chicago

“Immediately after the lights went down on Teenage Dick, there was complete and utter silence in the theater. Seattle Repertory Theatre has managed to make Richard III, one of Shakespeare’s many boring histories, worthy of stunned silence.”

—TeenTix

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A white wheelchair user with shoulder length brown hair sings into a microphone and signs thank you with the other hand. two asl interpreters sit in the foreground and the Joe’s Pub stage is in the background.
candid photo of musical theatre artist Meredith Aleigha Wells sitting in their wheelchair singing at a microphone, inside a brightly lit rehearsal room with large floor to ceiling windows
Musical Theatre Artist Meredith Aleigha Wells, a wheelchair user with fair skin and an ash blonde hair, features a radiant smile. They wear a white jumpsuit with dangling disco ball earrings, posing in front of a purple step-and-repeat backdrop
Actor Meredith Aleigha Wells using a wheelchair backstage at the Orpheum Theatre with co-star Resa by their Grinch wall tag painting.
Performer Meredith Aleigha Wells sitting in their wheelchair with their back to the camera and arms outstretched looking out into the house of Bass Concert Hall in purple/pink lighting.
Meredith a person on long hair holding a microphone on the Jumbotron at a packed Chicago Bulls game.

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THEATRE/TV/FILM:

Arise Artist Agency

310-893-0216 Ext. 3

Katie.McGrath@ariseaa.com

Kelleigh.Levesque@ariseaa.com

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