Key West Theater: School for The Performing Arts
What: College Audition Prep Panel & American Sign Language in Mainstream Theater Class
When: Saturday, February 18th, 1pm-4pm
Where: Key West Theater, 512 Eaton Street
Ages: 14-18
To sign up: Email Juliet Gray at [email protected] to sign up for one or both classes
Fee: Thanks to our fundraising efforts and generous donors, all students who sign up will receive a scholarship to take either or both of the classes.
College Audition Prep Panel 1pm-2:15pm
This question and answer session is the first in our College Audition Prep series at the Key West Theater School for the Performing Arts, during which we will provide consulting, mentoring, information and periodic coaching for high school students in the areas of theater and musical theater performance in preparation for college auditions. The College Audition Prep Panel consists of performers currently working in the theater industry who are recent graduates of the highly-acclaimed theater programs at University of Florida and Texas State University, which ranked in 2015 by College Magazine as one of the Top 10 Colleges for Musical Theater Majors in the country.
American Sign Language (ASL) in Mainstream Theater Class 2:30pm-4pm
Class Objective:
Introduction to Arts Accessibility
Class Activities:
Warm Up: Introduction to American Sign Language – Alphabet, Numbers, Name/Introduction
Define Glossing Technique: Students will learn and translate English into American Sign Language. Teach the Five Parameters of Sign: Hand shape, palm orientation, location, movement, facial expressions Cover Conceptual Accuracy
Activity #1: Gloss a Shakespearean monologue
Activity #2: Gloss a song
Questions to Answer: How does movement influence the dynamics of storytelling?
How does American Sign Language express or convey emotion when layered unto
Shakespearean text or the lyrics of a song?
About Stefanie Anarumo:
ASL Mainstream Theater Class Instructor Stefanie Anarumo recently returned from Rome, where she was on a Fulbright Research Grant studying arts accessibility and international deaf culture. “I created a deaf children’s theater there, which fused languages signed and spoken English, ASL, Italian and Italian sign language,” she says. “Creating new theatrical works, which are fully accessible to members of deaf and hearing communities is at the forefront of work that I’m passionate about creating.” Stefanie is in Key West directing an original piece she wrote infused with ASL for Key West Theater’s new production of 129 Miles From Walmart, an evening of short plays which runs from February 17 – March 18. “I’m fascinated by non-verbal communication and language in general, so with this piece in particular, the cast and I collaborated in a way where the signs would enhance the text and vice versa.” Visit thekeywesttheater.com for more info.
The ASL in Mainstream Theatre Class is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, Florida Keys Council of the Arts and private donations.
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