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Support a new Deaf play, SKIN

A drama about four Deaf queer womxn and their experiences living on Capitol Hill.

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Support a new Deaf play, SKIN

Support a new Deaf play, SKIN

Support a new Deaf play, SKIN

Support a new Deaf play, SKIN

Support a new Deaf play, SKIN

A drama about four Deaf queer womxn and their experiences living on Capitol Hill.

A drama about four Deaf queer womxn and their experiences living on Capitol Hill.

A drama about four Deaf queer womxn and their experiences living on Capitol Hill.

A drama about four Deaf queer womxn and their experiences living on Capitol Hill.

Deaf Spotlight
Deaf Spotlight
Deaf Spotlight
Deaf Spotlight
1 Campaign |
Seattle, United States
$695 USD 12 backers
4% of $15,200 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Overview
Be mesmerized by our hands. Feel our presences on the stage. See our stories unfolding in the air. Help us produce Deaf Spotlight's third theatrical production, SKIN, in American Sign Language (ASL).

Let’s see our people and stories celebrating Deaf culture, history and ASL in a visible platform.

Deaf Spotlight will produce SKIN, a play written by an emerging Deaf playwright, Crystal L.M. Roberts. This production focuses on a subculture of the Deaf community - Deaf queer womxn and their complicated lives as Deaf, lesbian, friend, lover, and supporter. The play supports the cultural and theatrical development of the Deaf community and individual Deaf artists. 

Your contribution will help finance our third theatrical production by creating a space and time for Deaf actresses and a Deaf director to bring a Deaf playwright's creation onto the stage. 

YOUR SUPPORT

We're asking for your help to produce SKIN. We need at least $15,200 to make this dream a reality:

  • Honorariums for the cast and creative / technical team: actresses, playwright, director, stage manager, set designer, dramaturg, photographer, and stage light designer
  • Materials to build the stage
  • Venue for rehearsals and performances

Come see our show, May 4 - 7 & May 12 - 13, 2017 at the 12th Ave Arts Mainstage, Seattle, WA.  All performances will be open captioned in English. Follow us on social media and website, too. 

 

CAST:

Rhonda Cochran | GLO: Rhonda Cochran is excited to be a part of her first play with Deaf Spotlight. An avid theater lover/goer, Rhonda also has enjoyed behind the scene work as a ASL Coach and Interpreter for local theaters.  Outside of the theater,  Rhonda enjoys spending time with her family and is the mother of Theresa and grandma to 2 beautiful girls.

Kalen Feeney | QUINN: Kalen is a Washington native and excited to be returning to Seattle! She toured with the National Theatre of the Deaf and has trained with the American Conservatory Theatre, Deaf West Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has appeared on Cold Case and Switched at Birth. In addition, Kalen is a screenwriter and has produced several short films.

Amelia Hensley | SAMMIE: Amelia Hensley has enjoyed theatre her whole life, and her expressiveness landed her the lead role in in her first professional production Children of a Lesser God with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Since then, Hensley has performed with the Theatre Arts Department at Gallaudet University, Capital Fringe, Faction of Fools, Studio Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Her recent works include the critically acclaimed I was most alive with you, directed by Craig Lucas,  and starring in the role of Thea in Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening on Broadway in 2015-16. She received her BA from Gallaudet University in theatre arts and educational drama.

Michelle Mary Schaefer | ASH: Michelle Mary Schaefer , not new to the stage, was the first Deaf Female Actor who challenged herself by portraying as Billy as a guy in Tribes by Nina Raines three times last year.  Schaefer has also recently portrayed as Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God in Tampa, Florida.  

TEAM: 

Crystal L.M. Roberts | Playwright: Crystal L.M. Roberts is a PNW Deaf lesbian mother of two CODAs. She is a pen for hire, political activist writer, ghost writer, poet, playwright and occasional reader at the Salon of Shame. Skin was commissioned by Deaf Spotlight to showcase how various Deaf, gender nonconforming, queer womxn go about their everyday lives. It is a tribute to the many strong, beautiful, wise friends and lovers in her life that have befriended, mentored, counseled, and gave her pints of ice cream when she needed it. Crystal now lives in the other Washington with her fiancé where she will enter the MPA program at Gallaudet University.

Alexandria Wailes | Director: Alexandria Wailes has over 15 years of acting/directing/ choreographing and a lifetime of dancing. She was a part of the creative team and an associate choreographer for Deaf West's Spring Awakening in LA and on Broadway. 

Patty Liang | Producer: Patty Liang is the Executive Director of Deaf Spotlight. She oversees artistic and cultural programming to support the Deaf artists and their work and to encourage the Deaf community to embrace and celebrate the arts. Patty received a BFA in Ceramics from the UW, and a MA in Nonprofit Management for the Arts from NYU. She believes everyone have the innate ability to create and they can express their stories and thoughts through the arts.  

Deaf Spotlight | Nonprofit : Deaf Spotlight inspires, encourages, and showcases creative works of, by, and for Deaf people in the Pacific Northwest through events that celebrate Deaf culture and American Sign Language. 

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