Photo credit: Jon Taylor
My recent theater credits include The Man in Whistle down the Wind (Deaf West & New York Stage & Film), u/s Jake, Tim in Off-Broadway Trash (Out of the Box Theatrics/PAC NYC), Dad in Songs for Hands on a Thursday (Prospect Musicals), Dr. Pomatter in Waitress (Deaf Broadway/Lincoln Center), and Edward Ferrars in a stage reading of Sense & Sensibility (Deaf West). I also recently served as Director of Interpreters for King Lear (The Shed), Aladdin (Broadway), and Pirates! (Broadway).
I have performed poetry readings at festivals and venues across the country for more than 15 years. My recent poetry highlights include having one of my poems featured in an exhibit at the Guggenheim and winning Sign Slam, an international improv sign language poetry tournament hosted by ASL Slam at Bowery Poetry Club.
In addition to performing, I serve as Senior Lecturer and Director of the ASL program at Princeton University, where I teach courses in ASL, Deaf/disability studies, and ASL literature. I'm also currently pursuing a PhD in Religion & Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, doing research in the areas of political theology and disability studies.
Whether translating, performing, or teaching, I'm drawn to sign language as a unique, beautiful, and powerful form of human expression.