KRISTEN JOINER + NOAM TOMASCHOFF
from The Richard Crouse Show Podcast Hosted by The Richard Crouse Show
On the Saturday November 7, 2026 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we meet Kristen Joiner. She is a writer, activist, and producer. After two decades in nonprofit and human-rights work, she was asked to co-author the memoir of disability rights leader Judy Heumann—a collaboration that became Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, and later the YA book Rolling Warrior. Judy was blunt from the first meeting: Kristen had spent a career in social change and still had not understood disability as a civil rights issue. That tension—between a nondisabled writer and one of the movement’s central figures—shaped both the book and what followed. Kristen is now an executive producer on the feature film Being Heumann, directed by Oscar winner Siân Heder and starring Ruth Madeley as Judy and now playing in theatres. Then, Noam Tomaschoff an actor and writer who turned a family secret into an award-winning musical. He is the writer and star of Our Little Secret: A True New Musical. After a DNA test revealed he wasn’t an only child, he and composer Ryan Peters and producer Russell Citron turned the story into a musical that began at Toronto Fringe, won over Edinburgh, packed Montreal’s Segal Centre, and now comes to the CAA Theatre in Toronto until November 22.
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