Willy Conley is an award-winning photograp her\, writer\, and theatre artist. He is the editor of Plays of Our Own: An An thology of Scripts by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers\, and the author of The World of White Water: Poems\, Visual-Gestural C ommunication: A Workbook in Nonverbal Expression and Reception\, Listening through the Bone: Collected Poems\, The Deaf Heart: A N ovel\, Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays\, and Broken Spokes. Conley is a retired professor and former chairper son of Theatre Arts at Gallaudet University in Washington\, DC. \;
\nDuring his presentation he will read from his two recently published works: < em>Plays of Our Own: An Anthology of Scripts by Deaf and Hard -of-Hearing Writers and Photographic Memories &ndash\; Selected Essays\, Playlets \, and Stories. \; \; The audience will have a chance to ask questions at the end of the program and copes of his books will be ava ilable for sale. \;
\n*The program will be in American S ign Language (ASL) with voice interpretation and CART (real-time captionin g). \; For other reasonable accommodation\, contact the Center for Acc essibility at DCPLaccess@dc.gov or 202-727-2142. \; \;
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About the works:
\nPlay s of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an ecl ectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers ha ve made major\, positive contributions to world drama or Deaf theatre arts .
\nTheir topics range from those completely unrelated to deafness t o those with strong Deaf-related themes such as a dreamy\, headstrong girl surviving a male-dominated world in Depression-era Ireland\; a famous Spa nish artist losing his hearing while creating his most controversial art\; a Deaf African-American woman dealing with AIDS in her family\; and a Dea f peddler ridiculed and rejected by his own kind for selling ABC fingerspe lling cards. The plays are varied in style - a Kabuki western\, an ensembl e-created variety show\, a visual-gestural play with no spoken nor signed language\, a cartoon tragicomedy\, historical and domestic dramas\, and a situation comedy. This volume contains the well-known Deaf theatre classic s\, My Third Eye and A Play of Our Own.
\nAt long last\, direct ors\, producers\, Deaf and hearing students\, professors\, and researchers will be able to pick up a book of "Deaf plays" for production considerati on\, Deaf culture or multicultural analysis\, or the simple pleasure of re ading. \;
\nPhotographic Memories is an anthology of essays \, playlets\, and short fiction by writer and photographer Willy Conley. T he pieces in this collection are grounded in Deaf experiences\, a hallmark of Conley's work. Written from the unique perspective of a Deaf artist wh o navigates between the Deaf and hearing worlds\, Conley depicts a variety of topics\, settings\, and characters: a day in the life of a traveling D eaf theater company\, a nail salon\, a baseball player trying to go pro. C onley also addresses critical issues at the heart of his Deaf identity\, s uch as creating professional opportunities for Deaf theater artists\, the need for better standards in sign language interpreting\, and ableism.
\nOriginal photographs taken by the author accompany his writings and i nvite the reader to contemplate the often-blurred lines between reality an d memory. \;
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