Hannah Brannau is a Villanova actress who is breaking boundaries as she makes her debut in Arden Theater Company’s new staging of “The Glass Menagerie”, writes Alicia Vitarelli for 6abc.

Brannau has Cerebral Palsy. She developed a passion for acting at age 13 after participating in Acting Without Boundaries, a Delaware County theater group.

Acting Without Boundaries was created in 2004 to provide acting and theatrical opportunities for children, teens and young adults with physical disabilities, according to its Facebook page.

“As a young person, I think I took the idea of theater as maybe if I’m playing a character, people won’t notice how different I am, or they won’t pay attention to how different I am,” said Brannau.

She ended up learning the opposite. Now she embraces the idea that acting is a way to showcase everything that makes us unique.

“It doesn’t matter how different you are,” Brannau says. “Those differences are beautiful, and this is what you’re coming in with. Come with it and use it.”

The Glass Menagerie runs through Nov. 6 at the Arden Theatre Company.

Read more about actress Hannah Brannau and her work in The Glass Menagerie at the Arden Theater at 6abc.