Translating Shakespeare's English into ASL
Facilitated by Alexandria Wailes
Booking and details
Dates Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 11am
Tickets $20 (or $150 for an All-Access Pass)
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Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
Leaders from Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA) lead a discussion on the challenges and opportunities that occur when translating Shakespeare’s works into American Sign Language. Joined by Directors of Artistic Sign Language, they will explore how to approach the translation process before diving into specific passages of Hamlet to demonstrate this work in action. A Q&A time will follow the workshop.
This event is ASL Interpreted.
How to attend the festival
Individual events – $20
Reading Room Festival All-Access Pass – $150
Access to all staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations included in the Festival.
Students – Free admission to readings and conversations
Admitted free one-half hour before event start time, with a valid ID.
Alexandria Wailes
Alexandria Wailes (Facilitator) Actor: Broadway: for colored girls… (Booth Theatre), Deaf West’s Spring Awakening (Lena Horne Theater), Big River (Roundabout Theatre Company); Off Broadway: I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons), A Kind Of Alaska (New York Live Arts); Regional: Oedipus (The Getty Villa), Our Town (Pasadena Playhouse), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Mixed Blood Theatre); TV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, High Maintenance, Little America, Nurse Jackie, CW’s The Flash; Associate choreographer on Deaf West’s Spring Awakening; Director of Artistic Sign Language: Broadway revival Children of a Lesser God and King Lear, Goodspeed and Signature Theatre’s co-production of Private Jones, TV: This Close seasons 1 & 2, Quantico season 3, film: A Quiet Place 1 & 2, Wonderstruck, CODA (2022 multiple Academy Award winner). Director: Once on This Island, Deaf Broadway (Lincoln Center’s Summer Stages), A Not So Quiet Nocturne, VOCA (Visionaries of the Creative Arts), Deaf Spotlight’s Short Play Festival (Spring 2023); Co-directed Spring Awakening, Skylight Music Theatre; Awards: 2022 Chita Rivera winner, recipient of 2022 Disability Future Fellowship, 2020 OBIE winner, 2020 Lucille Lortel nominee. www.alexandriawailes.com
Kailyn Aaron-Lozano
Kailyn Aaron-Lozano (ASL). Director of Artistic Sign Language (recent works): Lincoln Center/ Deaf Broadway: RENT, Sondheim’s Company; Epic Players Theatre: Spring Awakening; Deaf Austin Theatre: The Laramie Project; Deaf Austin Theatre/ ZACH Theatre: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella; New Ohio Theatre: My Onliness; Deaf West & The Wallis: Spring Awakening; The Apothetae/ The Public: Titus Andronicus. Consulted with ASL interpreters on Off-Broadway and Broadway shows such as Shakespeare in the Park’s Hamlet, Fiasco Theatre’s Pericles, The Public: Jordans, Deep History; The Shed: King Lear, Pericles; Barrymore Theatre: Our Town. TV/Film: Sesame Street: American Sign Language (ASL) Series—Sesame Street Workshop; Washington Black (Hulu); Reverse Polarity (Web Series, D-PAN); Dance Camp (Awesomeness TV).
Monique Holt
Monique Holt Director: Hear Me (musical by Anita Riggio), Autocorrect Thinks I’m Dead by Aimee Chou. Playwright: WHY and HOW are not in the Picture, UNtranslate Me, The “OR”bit (Mabou Mines Fellowship), Wag Tale (10-minute play). Actor: Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet; Oregon Shakespeare’s Quill Fest (streaming): Richard III, Cymbeline; Harlequin Productions (Olympia, WA): Man of La Mancha; Amaryllis Theatre Company (Philadelphia): Twelfth Night; Washington Square Players: Taming of the Shrew; TV: The Other Two (HBO Max); Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival/PBS).