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National Theatre of the Deaf

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The National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD), officially founded in 1967 through federal grants, is the oldest theatre company in the United States (US) with a continuous history of US and international travel and of producing original works. [1]

40 relations: American School for the Deaf, American Sign Language, Ann Bancroft, Anne Sullivan, Arthur Penn, Audree Norton, Bernard Bragg, Children of a Lesser God (film), Children of a Lesser God (play), Chita Rivera, Chuck Baird, Colleen Dewhurst, Deaf culture, Dorothy Miles, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Gallaudet University, Hartford, Connecticut, Jason Robards, Linda Bove, Long Island Sound, Lou Fant, Marcel Marceau, Meryl Streep, Michael Redgrave, Middletown, Connecticut, New York School for the Deaf, New York University, Phyllis Frelich, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Robert Panara, Sesame Street, The Miracle Worker, Theatre, Tony Award, U.S. Office of Education, United States, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Waterford, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, West Hartford, Connecticut.

American School for the Deaf

The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States.

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American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Ann Bancroft

Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955) is an American author, teacher, adventurer, and public speaker.

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Anne Sullivan

Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936), better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller,Herrmann, Dorothy.

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Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) By the mid-1970s his films were received with much less enthusiasm.

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Audree Norton

Audree Norton (January 13, 1927 – April 22, 2015) was a deaf actress.

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Bernard Bragg

Bernard Bragg (born September 27, 1928) is a deaf actor, producer, director, playwright, artist, and author who is notable for being a co-founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf and for his contributions to Deaf performing culture.

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Children of a Lesser God (film)

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff.

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Children of a Lesser God (play)

Children of a Lesser God is a play by Mark Medoff, focusing on the conflicted professional and romantic relationship between Sarah Norman, a deaf former student, and her teacher, James Leeds.

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Chita Rivera

Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theatre.

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Chuck Baird

Chuck Baird (February 22, 1947 – February 10, 2012) was an American Deaf artist who was one of the more notable founders of the De'VIA art movement, an aesthetic of Deaf Culture in which visual art conveys a Deaf world view.

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Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Rose Dewhurst (3 June 1924 – 22 August 1991) was a Canadian-American actress.

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Deaf culture

Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.

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Dorothy Miles

Dorothy "Dot" Miles (19 August 1931 – 30 January 1993) was a poet and activist in the Deaf community.

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Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit theater company founded in 1964 by George C. White.

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Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University is a federally chartered private university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Jason Robards

Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Linda Bove

Linda Bove (born November 30, 1945) is a deaf American actress who performed as Linda the Librarian on the PBS children's series Sesame Street from 1971 to 2002.

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Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, lying between the eastern shores of Bronx County, New York City, southern Westchester County, and Connecticut to the north, and the North Shore of Long Island, to the south.

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Lou Fant

Lou Fant (December 13, 1931 – June 11, 2001) was a pioneering teacher, author and expert on American Sign Language (ASL).

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Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel, 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and Mime artist most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown".

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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress.

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Michael Redgrave

Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author.

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Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles (26 km) south of Hartford.

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New York School for the Deaf

The New York School for the Deaf is a private school for the deaf in White Plains, New York, just north of New York City, United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Phyllis Frelich

Phyllis Annetta Frelich (February 29, 1944 – April 10, 2014) was a Deaf American actress.

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Rehabilitation Services Administration

The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) is a federal agency under the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and is headquartered within the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. It was established to administer portions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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Robert Panara

Robert F. Panara (8 July 1920 - 20 July 2014) was a poet, a professor and a co-founder of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and the National Theater of the Deaf.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th-century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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U.S. Office of Education

The Office of Education, at times known as the Department of Education and the Bureau of Education, was a small unit in the Federal Government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1867 to 1972.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.

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Waterford, Connecticut

Waterford is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831.

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West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford is an affluent suburb in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, west of downtown Hartford.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Theatre_of_the_Deaf

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