'Spring Awakening' Makes Broadway Debut

VIDEO [CC] Interviews: Michael Arden's Deaf West Theater production of the Tony-winning musical 'Spring Awakening' makes a few dozen broadway stars.

NEW YORK CITY - The revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's musical 'Spring Awakening' opened last night at the Brooks-Atkinson Theatre where nearly the entire company, composed of more than 20 performers, both Deaf and Hearing, celebrated a Broadway debut.



TheaterMania caught up with Austin P. McKenzie and Sandra Mae Frank, who lead the cast as Melchior and Wendla, along with Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, Emmy winner Camryn Manheim, "Glee" veteran Ali Stroker, and more of the Deaf West cast members, who are joyfully getting acquainted with the Great White Way.

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Michael Arden, who makes his directorial Broadway debut at the helm of the production, also shares some feelings about the musical's journey from a Los Angeles black box theater to the biggest stage on the East Coast.



The Oscar winner Marlee Matlin takes on the Great White Way for the first time in Michael Arden's Deaf West Theater production of the Tony-winning musical... Read more: Spring Awakening Star Marlee Matlin on a Broadway Debut 30 Years in the Making



Get tickets to Spring Awakening: http://broadway.com/shows/spring-awakening



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#DeafTalent - Deaf Roles Belong To Deaf Actors

VIDEO: #DeafTalent - Campaign: Hollywood, stop hiring hearing actors for Deaf roles. Deaf people have the right to represent themselves!



As a result of this #DeafTalent campaign, the world will have a much better understanding of the Deaf community’s standpoint on not allowing Deaf roles to be given out to hearing people. Many people do not realize that they have been oppressing Deaf actors for many years now.

We hope that this new awareness will also create many more job opportunities for Deaf people all over, both in front and behind the camera, as well as other places. We believe that this campaign will ignite many new discussions and ideas and help cause a shift in societal awareness.

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Deaf West's Production Transfers To Broadway

VIDEO: Believe! Deaf West's Spring Awakening revival opens on Broadway.

BROADWAY - Deaf West’s revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Spring Awakening opens officially at the Great White Way's Brooks Atkinson Theatre on September 27. Directed by Michael Arden, the staging incorporates American Sign Language with the dialogue, as select characters are portrayed as Deaf, with additional performers providing their voices.

In honor of the musical’s big night, Broadway.com resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson created this sketch. The portrait includes Austin P. McKenzie as Melchior, Daniel N. Durant as Moritz, Sandra Mae Frank as Wendla, and the key supporting cast including Oscar winner Marlee Matlin as a variety of adult characters, along with Broadway.com



Audience Choice Award winners Krysta Rodriguez as Ilse and Andy Mientus as Hanschen and more! Broadway.com wishes the cast of Spring Awakening a happy opening. Make sure you get "Totally F**ked" at the after-party... Read more: http://broadway.com/buzz/182198/believe-deaf-wests-spring-awakening-revival-opens-on-broadway/



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Deaf Actors In New The Web Series 'Fridays'

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf gay actor co-creates and stars, Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern in new the webseries 'Fridays'

Fridays is a web series about best friends Kate and Michael, who live in Los Angeles and have just undergone huge life changes: Kate is newly married and Michael is newly single.



The main characters are Deaf and communicate in American Sign Language (ASL), with subtitles for people who don’t know sign language. Kate and Michael are two Deaf people who live in a hearing world, to comic, tragic, painfully funny, and joyous results.

Whether it is issues of love, money, or ordering a latte at Starbucks, Kate and Michael are two people you've never quite met before, and you'll love getting to know them. Stars and co-creators Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman are DEAF. They also wrote and directed the pilot... Read more: https://kickstarter.com/projects/fridays-the-web-series



Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman on the film "Thank You / Bloopers."

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Deaf Comedy Actor of France - Gaël Aguilera

VIDEO: Deaf comedy actor, Gaël Aguilera shares storytelling "My Childhood."

Gaël Aguilera was born in the Basque Country, France, in the same day and month as Charlie Chaplin, April 16, 1982. He joined the National Institute for Young Deaf Gradignan Bordeaux in Gironde, France.

In 2002, he participated in theater in Toulouse, France, a city where he settled. In 2009, want a role of a killer sunglasses in a miniseries Terror in Toulouse by Julien Bourges. The same year, the letter from a short film La Mer, praised in many festivals organized by the Deaf people.

After filming The Portrait of Alex Sambe in 2010, he left Toulouse to live in Paris for the benefit of its participation in Chaptal theater, the famous International Visual Theatre (IVT) in Paris. The pseudonym Gaël Aguilera is known for his comedies of manners in which he play different roles as well.



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Deaf West's Broadway Spring Awakening

VIDEO: In Rehearsal With Deaf West's Broadway Spring Awakening.

NEW YORK CITY - You may think you know Spring Awakening, but you've never seen or heard it like this. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony-winning musical returns to Broadway in the hands of the famed Deaf West Theatre in a brand-new production featuring a young cast of Deaf and Hearing actors performing the show simultaneously in English and American Sign Language.

The results will not only blow your mind, but are sure to provide an even more emotionally overwhelming experience than you ever expected.



Get tickets to Spring Awakening: http://broadway.com/shows/spring-awakening



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