Theatre Arts Resources

Resources

• Our Facebook Page
• Our Instagram Page
• Our Production History in Photos
• Howlround Theatre Commons – Deaf Theatre
• Deaf Artists Backstage interview series
• American Theatre Wing – “Working in the Theatre: Sign Language Theatre” (1/20/2016)
• New York Times – “Making Room for Deaf Performers in Hollywood” (10/27/2017)
• Boston University College of Fine Arts – “A Singular Light”
• Technicians For Change – “Illuminating the Careers of Disabled Lighting Designers” (2/22/2021)

Productions

Historical:

Macbeth (1955)

This is the only known color footage of a production taking place at Chapel Hall.

Goodbye Charlie (1964)

This production stars a young Patrick Graybill.

My Third Eye (1971)

This production by the fledgling National Theatre of the Deaf features several Gallaudet theatre alumni.

Laurent Clerc: A Profile (1976), 1

Laurent Clerc: A Profile (1976), 2

Laurent Clerc: A Profile (1976), 3

Recent:

Goya: In the House of the Deaf Man (2007-08)

This production, done completely in Visual Gestural Communication and without dialogue, won its regional in the 2008 American College Theatre Festival. 

Julius Caesar (2015)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)

Workshop: Medea (2017)

Honors capstone production directed by Casey Johnson Pasqua (’17).

Baggage (2019)

Honors capstone production directed by Nikolya Sereda (’19).

Note: Links to A Raisin in the Sun, Bunnicula, Cloud Nine, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest cannot be shown publicly due to contractual language associated with each production’s performance rights. Same applies for any works written and created within the past 75 years, unless permission is granted by the playwright and/or proxies.