Making Movies

Dominick Evans, 33, will be the first graduate of Wright State’s motion pictures production program with a significant physical disability.

Evans has spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disorder that results in general muscle wasting and mobility impairment. At 16, he was no longer able to walk. Then when he was 22, he fell in the shower and broke his leg, forcing him to leave Wright State’s theatre program.

Evans moved to Michigan and was largely bedridden for five years. He and his girlfriend supported themselves with a writing and editing business.

“I got to a point where I was in bed and I