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Audio Description

Audio Description

I believe that Audio Description (AD) should be considered an integral part of production. That it should be designed alongside all other methods of communicating meaning and interpretation. That it should enrich the experience of the vast majority of people attending live and recorded performance. I suspect that if we learned to incorporate AD into our design and rehearsal processes, people - sighted, low-vision, and blind - would welcome the experience. Blind and low-vision audiences deserve rich performance experiences, and I strive to produce those.

As a result of these beliefs, you can find samples of my work as an audio description artist in many places on my website and I have compiled links to this work, plus some you will not find on this site, on this page. I have completed the American Council for the Blind / Audio Description Institute’s Training and am extremely interested in collaborating with others on audio description projects. I look forward to hearing from you about ways we might collaborate in the future.

Links to Audio Description Projets:

I wrote, voiced, and edited all Audio Description for my web series Just Co Vote.

I wrote, voiced, and edited Audio Description for a video of hand feeding birds that I took at Mendon Ponds, NY. Although the visual lacks some framing, I am proud of the AD. I also provided captioning for this video.

I wrote and edited Audio Description for my livestream performance of Awaiting Tiresias as well as for the film by the same title.

Students under my direction wrote and performed Audio Description that was fully incorporated into the Hobart and William Smith Theatre production of Tone a Blind Eye that I conceived of and directed.