The Deaf Community Apr 21 at 12pm Theater Participants Teresa Curtin, Aaron Kubey, Lewis Merkin, Terrylene Sacchetti Moderator Janice Rimler Interpreted by Stephanie Feyne, Bill Moody, Jon Wolfe Nelson, Lynnette Taylor Ferns and cycads on loan from the New York Botanical Garden. Event is open-captioned. Open captioning is being provided, in part, by a grant from Theatre Development Fund’s TAP Plus program in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts. Special thanks to Beth Prevor and Hands On.
about the event Oliver Sacks travelled to Gallaudet to witness the tumultuous events and subsequently chronicled them with remarkable sympathy and insight in his book Seeing Voices. This panel, moderated by Kim Wield, the director of our staging of the Sign version of A Kind of Alaska, will focus a variety of such voices on Sacks’ contributions to the wider discourse between the hearing and the Deaf.
biographies
Teresa Curtin is an experienced attorney with 25 years experience in complex civil litigations at trial and appellate level. A 1988 New York University School of Law graduate, she is admitted in the