Devon Healey

Devon Healey is an Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Grounded in her experience as a blind woman, her work explores blindness and disability as alternate forms of perception and creative ways of knowing the world. She is the author of Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Her recent work bridges disability studies with theatre and performance studies, examining how blind perception opens new ways of creating, accessing, and experiencing theatre and dance. Her first play, Rainbow on Mars (Outside the March/National Ballet of Canada/Peripheral Theatre, 2025), is a sensory reclamation of blindness and marks the development of Immersive Descriptive Audio (IDA), an accessible stagecraft practice that understands accessibility as integral to the creative process.

Devon is Scholar in Residence at Toronto’s Fall for Dance North Festival, and her work has been featured internationally with major ballet and opera companies.