Kurt Yaeger is a producer, writer, and performer with a disability.
He is a Ruderman Foundation Board Member, SAG/AFTRA Performers with Disability Committee Member, Writers Guild of America - Writers with Disabilities Member, and Producers Guild Diversity Workshop Member. He has starred in 65 commercials, 17 films, and 60 episodes of TV in 9 years as a non-regular.
Yaeger is also a former professional X Games athlete. Years after losing his leg in a horrible accident, Kurt came back, was the first amputee in the X Games, and the first amputee to successfully pull a backflip, and still rides to this day. Even after losing his leg, he has run up the Empire State Building, 86 floors in 20 minutes and 19 seconds; completed 55-mile triathlons; and done several adventure challenges for the Challenged Athlete Foundation, raising money and awareness for the charity.
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