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ASL Comedy...TOUR!

featuring performing artists who use ASL
in comedy, poetry, storytelling, acting, and performing

ASL Comedy Tour

Various ASL artists will join Keith Wann on the 2008 ASL Comedy Tour...

Each artist will have a short solo performance throughout the show and in between will be skits that involve all of the performers

To Book this event for your city
email - KemiProductionsInc@gmail.com
Workshops are available too!
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Visalia, CA - September 7th, 7pm

College of the Sequoias
915 S. Mooney Blvd.
Visalia, CA 93277

Keith Wann
with guest Crom Saunders and Wormy Callaway
performing solo routines and skits in ASL

CruisEUs Workshop 10am to 1pm
Getting Dramatic about Interpreting

Signing for the theater is a different style and presentation than signing for the classroom or conversationally. This workshop is for those who would like to interpret for theatre, or to sign with “stage presence”. Participants will learn techniques and ways to hone skills that will help them be more expressive, and a more streamlined part of theatrical interpreting work. These techniques also help interpreters in other work environments in terms of clarity, role assignment, and reducing lag time.

CruisEUs Workshop 2pm to 5pm

ASL for the 21^st Century

Just as one would talk and behave differently in different social circles, or in different environments such as home and work, one also modifies ASL to match different visual mediums. The most common one is conversational (also educational), but ASL is also a long-standing presence in the theatre environment. Now, more than ever, there are many Deaf performers and performing groups that ASL students and Deaf/HH people can go and watch and/or observe. Also- thanks to technology, with the current explosion of Deaf –produced film- as viral videos online, and as independent studio/school project productions-we also have ASL for film- the cinematic style, which is much different than the tradition Deaf actor or actress’ cameo or role in a TV show or movie with a speaking cast. This workshop analyzes those different categories, discusses the structural difference of each one, and how one can become versed in more than one- either to apply or to teach .

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for the ASL Comedy Tour show.
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Charlotte, NC - September 4th

Greensboro, NC - September 5th

Orlando, FL - September 12th

St. Paul, Mn - September 19th

Pasadena, CA - October 3rd

Indianapolis, IN - October 10th

Buffalo, NY - November 7th

Austin, TX - December 12th

ASL Performers - Individual Websites

Keith Wann

Keith Wann, a child of deaf adults, is one of America’s funniest ASL comedians. Keith tours around the ASL Nation performing both of his one man shows “Watching Two Worlds Collide” rated G to R (depending on the audience request) and his K.I.D.S.show (Keith's Inspirational Deaf Stories), for family audiences and School assemblies.
He also performs as a Storyteller for Festivals featuring family and children stories in ASL.

Keith has gone Hollywood and was filmed in some PEPSI commercials to build hype for the "Bob" commercial. He has also been on a few TV shows as an extra, including Law and Order and Court TV and also appeared in Mosdeux's Resonare as the Demented Apple Farmer...and just finished filming another film playing a deranged prison convict in the film How I Killed My Girlfriend's Cat.

Keith is working on a collection of CODA/KODA stories for a book. Keith also teaches workshops for interpreters to analyze lyrics and ASL, the journey to certification, and Improvisation for ASL students. He is also involved with Flying Fingers, a camp for Deaf and Koda children.

Keith has worked solo and in collaboration with other great ASL artists bringing to stage Coda stories, Deaf culture, Improv, Sketch comedy, and ASL student bashing.

Keith lives in Brooklyn, NY and works part-time as an interpreter certified CI CT and NIC:Master. Keith completed a program at Julliard on interpreting Broadway plays and plans to continue exploring more options in the performing arts as an interpreter and artist.

Peter Cook

Peter S. Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf performing artist whose works incorporates American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting, and movement.

Mark Morales

Mark Angel Morales grew up near East Los Angeles, California. He grew up as a Deaf Mexican/Aztec in a hearing family. He attended a mainstream program and graduated from South Hills High School. Mark then enrolled at Gallaudet University in 1979. He has been involved in various organizations as an athlete and a leader and has worked as a professional free-lance interpreter for 15 years. A La Puente native, he is nationally respected as a Deaf Interpreter and International Sign Interpreter. A dedicated Deaf entertainer, he co-directed the famous play, "Zoot Suit", at Gallaudet University and is nationally well known for his “One Deaf Aztec Man Show”, a show with an emphasis on ASL and International Sign storytelling. As an ASL Storyteller, he participated in the development of videotapes and CDs about Deaf Culture and Visual Arts.

Justin "Wormy" Callaway

Has traveled all over the ASL Nation as a Improv Comedian from the Group that bears his name ICEWORM. Justin has also starred in several online PEPSI commercials. Involved in Deaf Missionary work in the US and Fiji Islands.
Fremont graduate 94.

K. Crom Saunders

Crom Saunders is very passionate about his theatre work. In addition to several appearances in full productions, Crom has his own one-man show, “Cromania!”, which tours nationwide, featuring over 40 different characters, comedy, improv, and storytelling.

Crom also co-founded ICEWORM, a nationally touring troupe which features improv and sketch comedy. He recently completed his first directing job, “Butler Did It!”, a murder mystery he wrote, the latest of several plays to be produced from Crom’s scripts.

Crom also has interpreted dozens of plays, from children’s theatre to musicals and taught ASL and theatrical workshops across the nation. He currently teaches ASL at University of Pittsburgh, PA.

Richard "Juggy" Jordan

Juggie has came back to perform!
I was raised by COHA (Child of Hearing Adults, -I am Deaf). I found out about the new ASL Comedy Tour, and I am excited to join with my good friends, Keith, Wormy, Peter, and some other old ASL faces.

I have been involved with performing in the past as I joined the stage group who was on the tour, Cleveland Theater Stage (a Deaf group whom they help, teach, direct numerous scenes anywhere). I performed as the mean banker in "Neil Simon's The Good Doctor." It had several plays. It was in 1997 in Vancouver, Washington.

I also have participated in some skits, improv, crazy shows, solo, etc, etc... with friends back on the West Coast. In addition of that, I am a native of California.
Some people kept telling me that I was a pretty natural performer. That's their opinion, however, actually, I haven't attended nor taken any kind of acting, drama, theater courses at any colleges. That is because I love to make people laugh, embarrass, smile, and any kind of emotions positively...and naturally. Sometimes I am a fairy tales storyteller at Forest Elementary School in Des Plains, Illinois, where I love to visit, perform, and make children smile.

I live in Evanston, IL. I hope this tour will thrive so much in an ahead of time to please the audience. I am exploring some options to be a performer, storyteller, artist, and photographer.
Check out my website: www.myspace.com/juggyjordan

Roger Vass

Roger Vass Jr.,known as "Vass," is an actor, film maker, director, and writer. Born in Indiana and raised in Los Gatos, California, he graduated from California School for the Deaf in Fremont.

He is known as a master of ASL because of his acting in a film called "Vital Signs" which was nationally televised as part of a PBS program about deaf history, "Through Deaf Eyes". His acting credits include the stage performance at Ohlone College of "Where Our Dreams Have Gone" director by Audree Norton. His performance in "META" garnered him the"Best Supporting Actor" award from the director Patti Durr at NTID.

He currently resides in Sioux Falls, SD, and is the proud father of two beautiful children, Hunter and Ireland.

also featuring local talent

-to audition contact KemiProductionsInc@gmail.com

Our Team of Voice Interpreters

Tony Barraza, CI CT

Tony has certified eyes! One is CI and the other is CT.
Tony is a Freelance Trilingual Interpreter.
For hiring information go to www.TonyBarraza.net

Emilia Lorenti-Wann, CI CT

Emilia launched www.CruisEUs.net in 2006 with 150 participants going to Alaska and is now working on the 2009 cruise to the Mexican Riveria. Provides Trilingual interpreting services through Sign Language Inc.