Willy Conley

Plays of Our Own (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthology of Scripts by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers have made major, positive contributions to world drama or Deaf theatre arts.

Their topics range from those completely unrelated to deafness to those with strong Deaf-related themes such as a dreamy, headstrong girl surviving a male-dominated world in Depression-era Ireland; a famous Spanish artist losing his hearing while creating his most controversial art; a Deaf African-American woman dealing with AIDS in her family; and a Deaf peddler ridiculed and rejected by his own kind for selling ABC fingerspelling cards. The plays are varied in style - a Kabuki western, an ensemble-created variety show, a visual-gestural play with no spoken nor signed language, a cartoon tragicomedy, historical and domestic dramas, and a situation comedy. This volume contains the well-known Deaf theatre classics, My Third Eye and A Play of Our Own.

At long last, directors, producers, Deaf and hearing students, professors, and researchers will be able to pick up a book of "Deaf plays" for production consideration, Deaf culture or multicultural analysis, or the simple pleasure of reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000800678
• Artikelnr.: 66763994

Autorenporträt

Willy Conley is a retired professor/chairperson of Theatre and Dance at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. He is an award-winning playwright who has been widely published and produced. His recent book was Visual-Gestural Communication: A Workbook in Nonverbal Expression and Reception (Routledge, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Contributor Biographies Introduction Chapter 1: The King of Spain's Daughter* by Teresa Deevy Chapter 2: My Third Eye by The National Theatre of the Deaf Ensemble Chapter 3: A Play of Our Own by Dorothy Miles Chapter 4: The Ghost of Chastity Past or The Incident at Sashimi Junction* by Shanny Mow Chapter 5: DEAF SMITH: The Great Texian Scout by Stephen C. Baldwin Chapter 6: WomanTalk by Bruce Hlibok Chapter 7: 25 Cents by Aaron Kelstone Chapter 8: META by Patricia A. Durr Chapter 9: The Middle of Nowhere by Michele Verhoosky Chapter 10: A Not So Quiet Nocturne by Jaye Austin Williams Chapter 11: Profile of a Deaf Peddler by Mike Lamitola Chapter 12: Goya - en la Quinta del Sordo (in the house of the deaf man) by Willy Conley Chapter 13: Reflections of a Black Deaf Woman by Michelle Banks Chapter 14: Lost in the Hereafter* by Sabina England Afterword *denotes a play not about the Deaf experience
a D/deaf or hard-of-hearing person
nor Deaf culture Contributor Biographies Teresa Deevy
a prolific and established Irish playwright of the early twentieth century
studied at University College Dublin and University College Cork. Beginning in the mid- 1920s
the Abbey Theatre produced her plays Reapers
A Disciple
Temporal Powers
The King of Spain's Daughter
Katie Roche
and The Wild Goose. She was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters in 1954. The National Theatre of the Deaf Ensemble
originally based at the O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford
Connecticut
created and performed My Third Eye. The company was comprised of ten deaf actors
two hearing actors
and one hearing musician: Fredricka Norman
Patrick Graybill
Richard Kendall
Timothy Scanlon
Mary Beth Miller
Dorothy Miles
Linda Bove
Edmund Waterstreet
Joseph Sarpy
Bernard Bragg
Dave Berman
Carol Flemming
and Kenneth Swiger. For over 50 years
NTD has toured all over the world performing simultaneously in two languages: for the eye
American Sign Language
and for the ear
the spoken word. Dorothy Miles graduated from Gallaudet University (1961) with distinctions and performed with the National Theatre of the Deaf. Perhaps the best-known British Sign Language poet
Miles is the author of the books
Bright Memory: The Poetry of Dorothy Miles
British Sign Language - a beginner's guide
and Gestures: Poetry in Sign Language. Shanny Mow
formerly of Santa Fe
NM
was often associated with the NTD as an actor
resident playwright
director and instructor of acting and playwriting. He adapted Homer's The Iliad
The Odyssey
as well as Gilgamesh and Parzival
From the Horse's Mouth
which was performed at the Kennedy Center. As former artistic director of Fairmount Theatre of the Deaf - which became Cleveland SignStage Theatre - he wrote and directed Counterfeits
nominated for 1995 American Theatre Critics Association New Play Awards. His other works include The Cat Spanking Machine
Love Thy Neighbor
Letters from Heaven
Shakespeare Unmasked
La Legenda Da La Llorona
and Bell in Hell. Stephen C. Baldwin
a retired educator from Austin
TX
holds a BA in History
an MA in Deaf Education
and a Ph.D. in Theatre History
Theory and Criticism. Baldwin has had twenty-six plays produced
most related to Deaf culture and history. He is the author of Pictures in the Air: The Story of the National Theatre of the Deaf (Gallaudet University Press)
and Backspace
a novella (Savory Words Publishing). Bruce Hlibok
from New York City
was a playwright
director
and the first Deaf actor to play a Deaf character on Broadway performing in the 1978 hit musical
Runaways. His plays Going Home
The Passion of Rita H
and WomanTalk were produced off-off Broadway. He is the author of the children's book
Silent Dancer. Aaron Kelstone has been an actor
director
playwright
an artistic director
and business administrator for various theatre organizations over the past 15 years. He has an MA degree in English Literature from Cleveland State University
and an EdD in Education from Northeastern University. He is currently a Principal Lecturer at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester
NY
and also serves as the Development Officer for the Department of Performing Arts. Patricia A. Durr was a founding member
artistic director and board member of LIGHTS ON! for a number of years. An award-winning filmmaker
she has written
directed and produced The Grey Area: His Date/Her Rape
HIV/AIDS Prevention for Deaf
Me Too
Exodus
Worry
and Don't Mind? She holds an MS in Deaf Education from the University of Rochester/NTID and a BA in Sociology from LeMoyne College and is a retired professor of Deaf Cultural Studies and social sciences at NTID in Rochester
NY. Michele Verhoosky studied creative writing and theatre arts at Emerson College
and graduated Phi Beta Kappa/Magna cum Laude from UCONN. Her award-winning plays include A Laying of Hands
I See the Moon
The Middle of Nowhere
and Beyond the Blue
a new original play at the 6th Annual Women on Top Theater Festival in Cambridge
MA. Dr. Jaye Austin Williams is Assistant Professor and C. Graydon and Mary E. Rogers Faculty Fellow in the Department of Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University (Lewisburg
PA)
where she specializes in the melding of drama
cinema
performance and Black Feminist theories with Critical Black Studies. She worked for thirty years in professional theatre as a director
playwright
actor and consultant
on and off Broadway and regionally
including being director-in-residence for Onyx Theatre Company in New York City throughout the 1990s. Mike Lamitola was a teacher
actor
playwright
storyteller
and advocate
devoted to Deaf theater. After earning his degree in Social Work from RIT
he toured with the National Theatre of the Deaf as an actor to 49 states and abroad and conducted numerous theater workshops. He served for 14 years as a faculty member for Gallaudet University's Young Scholar's Program. Willy Conley
originally from Baltimore
MD
is a retired professor and former chairperson of the Theatre Arts department at Gallaudet University in Washington
DC. Conley
who has an MA in Playwriting from Boston University and an MFA in Theatre from Towson University
is an award-winning playwright whose work has appeared in numerous publications and productions internationally. He is the author of The World of White Water - Poems
Listening Through the Bone - Collected Poems
The Deaf Heart - a Novel
Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays
Broken Spokes
Visual-Gestural Communication - a Workbook in Nonverbal Expression and Reception
and Broken Spokes. Michelle A. Banks
a native of Washington
D.C.
is an award-winning actress
writer
director
producer
choreographer
motivational speaker
and teacher. She co-wrote the plays There's Butter
But No Bread - an adaptation of Waiting For Godot
and Black Women Stories: One Deaf Experience for Onyx Theatre Company. Banks holds a bachelor's degree in Drama Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase
and a master's degree in Organizational Management from Ashford University. She founded Onyx Theatre Company in New York City
the first deaf theater company in the United States for people of color. Currently
she is the Artistic Director of Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA) in D.C. Sabina England is a fully Deaf playwright
performance artist
and award-winning filmmaker. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from University of Missouri and a certificate in Filmmaking from London Film Academy. Her plays have been produced in London
UK
at such locations as Soho Theatre
Tristan Bates Theatre
Theatre Royal Stratford East
and East 15 Acting School: How the Rapist was Born; A Study of the Human Condition; I Love to Eat
Drink and be Sad; Chess for Asian Punks
Greek Losers
and Dorks; and Dear Me
Where's My Angel? She currently lives and works in St. Louis
Missouri.