As audience members wave their hands in appreciation, fingers spread next to their faces, they enter a different world where applause is silent. More and more the deaf community is breaking into ...

Tom Willard, comedy fan and recent stand up comedian, recently attended the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival and the grand opening of the National Comedy Center. Willard lost his hearing later in life and ...

Don’t bother asking stand-up comedian Stephen Ryan, “Did you hear the one about…?” Ryan hasn’t heard your joke or any others. He’s never heard anything. He’s deaf, and that’s fine by him. For Ryan, ...

On or off the job, Blake Wales talks with his hands. Mismatched wristbands frame supple, powerful digits dancing in tandem with conversational flow—each phrase punctuated by a precise judo chop. In ...

Standing in line on the sidewalk in front of the Nuyorican Poets Café is usually a time of sensory overload. The performance space, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is best known for ...

Decades ago, C.J. Jones walked into a St. Louis, Mo., public school and was told he was not allowed to sign. The Temecula Valley High School students that the deaf entertainer performed for Tuesday ...

Before “This Close” crept quietly into television history last year, there had never been a TV series created by and starring deaf actors. Now, thanks to Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, there is.

Nyle Dimarco, the deaf model and actor who won America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, has sold a comedy about being a deaf man in America to Spectrum. Deadline understands that the ...

Before “This Close” crept quietly into television history last year, there had never been a TV series created by and starring deaf actors. Now, thanks to Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, there is.

While the awards campaign for “CODA” and its eventual Oscar wins brought substantial visibility to deaf performers and issues of accessibility (such as the need for closed captioning and American Sign ...

Before “This Close” crept quietly into television history last year, there had never been a TV series created by and starring deaf actors. Now, thanks to Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, there is.