Deaf President DiMarco in 2024!
American Deaf entertainment icon Nyle DiMarco has joked that he could one day become the first Deaf President of the United States.
Following the inauguration...
Conservatoire students celebrate Deaf Awareness Week
Students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland are celebrating their place on the only degree programme for deaf performers in the UK this week,...
Under the spotlight: Deaf Talent – Genevieve Barr
The actress caused a sensation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in her role as Alice in The Solid Life of Sugar Water. Praised by...
Mandy Harvey – deaf singer got dazzled in “America’s Got Talent”
A phenomenal success for Mandy Harvey who became deaf in 10 years ago, aged 18, from a connective-tissue disorder where she has got ill,...
![Fifi Garfield (The Manager), Paula Garfield - Director, Abigail Poulton (Emma) - [Photo credit: Natalie Yalden]](https://i0.wp.com/www.britishdeafnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Contractions-casts-director.jpg?resize=218%2C150&ssl=1 "Deafinitely Theatre marks 15th Anniversary with new play ‘Contractions’")
Deafinitely Theatre marks 15th Anniversary with new play ‘Contractions’
In last Wednesday 8th November, Artistic Director of Deafinitely Theatre, Paula Garfield, announces a new, site-specific production of Mike Bartlett’s play Contractions as the...
Good news but more Deaf actors needed
Michael Richardson reports for BDN on accessibility improvements at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
As I write, the final day of the 2016 Edinburgh Festival...
Dancing to the beat
Kevin Watson talks to the star of the new vodka Smirnoff advert, Chris Fonseca, who is inspiring Deaf people to express themselves through music...
Access to Work limits Deaf actors say London Theatre Company
The Graeae Theatre Company, based in London, has claimed the government’s disability employment scheme, Access to Work, has created a “glass ceiling” that limits...
Power in Our Hands: It all started with a dusty pile of showreels in...
As BDA documentary Power in Our Hands which premiered
last November prepares to go on tour Kevin Watson finds out
how the project began.
A chance discovery during...
Under the spotlight: Deaf Talent – Paula Garfield
Deafinitely Theatre’s artistic director talks about her powerful new 2015 show and how theatre is the ultimate way of raising Deaf awareness.
BDN: You just...
