The Faction of Fools Theatre Company are performing at the Gallaudet's Elstad Auditorium in Washington, DC through May 19. The company focuses on the Italian commedia dell'Arte theater style of physical comedy and this production is no exception. Hamlecchino: Clown Prince of Denmark is a stylistic interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. For more info, click here.
The New York Times takes a look at the career of Russell Harvardhere. The Austin, Texas native grew up deaf and is now playing the role of Billy in the new off-Broadway play Tribes.
Deaf since the age of 4, Bob Hiltermann was born in Germany, the tenth of eleven children born. A bout with meningitis left him deaf but he wasn't diagnosed until the age of ten. He learned ASL while attending Gallaudet University in Washington, DC and later formed MuSign (a Signing/Mime company). He acted with Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God. Featured in See What I'm Saying and The Hammer, his new ASL videos called Shut Up and Sign can be found here.
Harvard is only 20 year olds but has already made his mark in both film and stage. The Austin, Texas native grew up deaf, communicating in ASL and lip reading. Harvard’s mother was born deaf and did not learn sign until she was six years old.
After playing roles in stage productions at Gallaudet such as Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Harvard has had parts in CBS’ CSI: New York with Marlee Matlin and in Deaf West Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty. The actor played Daniel Day-Lewis’s grown son in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood.
He played the role of Matt Hamil in the 2010 film The Hammer and is currently playing the role of Billy in the new off-Broadway play Tribes.
The off-Broadway show Tribes follows the story of a deaf man who has learned to adapt to his hearing family’s unconventional ways, but they’ve never bothered to return the favor. Read a review of the show here.
The founder of Deaf West Theatre is being replaced. Founder
is retiring and David J. Kurs will take his place as artistic director for the Los Angeles-based theater group. Waterstreet has been at the helm since 1991. During the past two decades, Deaf West has put on 40 plays and four musicals. The group's revival of Big River made it to New York, where it won two Tony nominations and a Tony honor for excellence in theater. The 68-year-old Waterstreet graduated from Gallaudet University and was a member of the National Theatre of the Deaf. His successor is 34 and also a Gallaudet grad, having served as associate producer and ASL master for Deaf West. Kurs first show will be the April production of Cyrano.
An Australian company is now offering an app that promises to deliver real-time live theater captioning on smartphone and tablet devices. The Captioning Studio app is called GoTheatrical and was first used publically in the city of Canberra for Andrew McKinnon’s production of Dickens’ Women last month. It runs a dollar-99 on Apple’s App Store. The video offers more details (captions included).
A local community theater group is putting on Children of the Lesser God in the Charlotte, North Carolina suburb of Davidson starting tomorrow (Thursday, March 1) through Saturday. The play won awards for its portrayal of a speech therapist who falls for one of his students at a school for the deaf. Find out more about the Davidson Community Players production here.
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The Faction of Fools Theatre Company are performing at the Gallaudet's Elstad Auditorium in Washington, DC through May 19. The company focuses on the Italian commedia dell'Arte theater style of physical comedy and this production is no exception. Hamlecchino: Clown Prince of Denmark is a stylistic interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. For more info, click here.
Deaf since the age of 4, Bob Hiltermann was born in Germany, the tenth of eleven children born. A bout with meningitis left him deaf but he wasn't diagnosed until the age of ten. He learned ASL while attending Gallaudet University in Washington, DC and later formed MuSign (a Signing/Mime company). He acted with Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God. Featured in See What I'm Saying and The Hammer, his new ASL videos called Shut Up and Sign can be found here.
The founder of Deaf West Theatre is being replaced. Founder
