Deaf Spotlight will host a night featuring Deaf authors and their works. LIterature have been around since 3400 BC. Please join us welcoming local and out of state authors and absorbing their stories on the stage. You will have a chance to browse and buy books from the visiting authors!
Donald Bangs | Playwright
Dr. Don Bangs is a Deaf actor, producer, director and playwright. He has developed sixteen plays and television programs about Deaf people’s lives and cultures, produced in various locations in the U.S. and Canada. He is the author of “My ASL Book” and “Deaf Gifts to the World of Theater”
ID: a purple brick wall with neon white circle around white text: “X Donald Bangs, Playwright." Don is a white person with white hair and rimless eyeglasses in a blue top.
Willy Conley | Playwright
After the production of Broken Spokes, and winning SDFF’s 2022 Best Experimental Film award, Willy Conley is thrilled to return to Deaf Spotlight. His books include Plays of Our Own, The World of White Water, Visual-Gestural Communication, Listening Through the Bone, The Deaf Heart, and Vignettes of the Deaf Character.
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ID: a purple brick wall with neon white circle around white text: “X Willy Conley, Playwright." Willy is a Caucasian male with a shaved head and a goatee wearing a plaid shirt and a bolo tie.
Peter Quint | Author
Drawing from his career as a teacher, leader and advocate within and for the Deaf community, Peter M. Quint writes novels about Deaf characters facing life challenges which shake their foundations and beliefs. Resilient Silence his debut novel and is the first novel in the Resilient Silence series.
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ID: a purple brick wall with neon white circle around white text: “X Peter Quint, Author." Peter is a white balding male with glasses in a green polo shirt.
Ross Showalter | Writer
Ross Showalter's stories, essays, and criticism have published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Catapult, Literary Hub, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. He currently teaches creative writing courses in UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
ID: a purple brick wall with neon white circle around white text: “X, Ross Showalter.” Ross is a white cisgender male with short brown hair and green eyes, wearing a blue button-down shirt and hearing aids.
Rachel Zemach | Author
Rachel Zemach has been Deaf since age ten. She taught a Deaf class for ten years in a mainstream program in California. The experience shook, educated and changed her significantly. Rachel wrote a book, The Butterfly Cage, about the experience, after the death of one of her former students. It is a funny /serious /memoir /expose, slated to come out April 2023.
ID: a purple brick wall with neon white circle around white text: “X Rachel Zemach, Author." Rachel is a white woman with shoulder-length brown-grey hair.