Word: deafness
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They wanted to create a company that would provide a stage for deaf actors, directors and designers in the theater world—and the federal government was eager to bestow money on such a project...
...wasn’t until David A. Hays ’52 stepped in that the National Theatre of the Deaf took shape...
...even after he won awards for his off-Broadway designs and earned several Tony nominations, when the National Theatre of the Deaf came along in 1967, Hays turned away from stage design and found a new love in his theatrical life...
...life as a designer is really of the past,” he told a Harvard Magazine interviewer in 1976. “The National Theatre of the Deaf is my passion. That is what I care about...
Hays’ National Theatre, a professional acting troupe made up of both deaf and hearing actors, has been widely credited with bringing sign language out of the shadows and expanding the boundaries of theatrical expression...