Emma Isted .

While at University studing BSL/English Interpreting, a chance meeting with Terry Ruane led to a work placement working with Terry and Donna Ruane at Signaway where she made her debut as a Theatre Interpreter with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Churchill Theatre Bromley. Since then she has interpreted the show many times at Crawley, Southend and Tunbridge Wells and also interpreted Bill Kenwright's West End production in September 2004.. In Southend she has also interpreted Stepping Out at the Palace Theatre and Grease at the Cliffs Pavilion where she has also interpreted a number of pantomimes as well as working as as a BBC studio audience interpreter over the last few years. In 2005 she became Theatresign's resident Interpreter for Les Miserables in the West End and has since added Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music and Joseph starring Lee Mead from TV's Any Dream Will Do. She has interpreted a number of pantomimes and many other shows including Blood Brothers and Carousel in addition to a number of children's shows.

Paula Cox

Paula qualified as a sign language interpreter and set about fulfilling her ambition of becoming a performance interpreter, combining her love for British Sign Language and musical theatre.She first trained with Theatresign in 2009 and has now completed a number of the training courses.

To date she has interpreted The Wizard of Oz and West Side Story at the Epsom Playhouse, Seussical the Musical at the Secombe Theatre, Sutton, Rent and Nine at the Arthur Cotterell Theatre, Kingston-Upon-Thames and Sweet Charity at The Leatherhead Theatre and has several other shows including My Fair Lady in Epsom. Skellig, Dumb Show and Room on the Broom at the Rose Theatre Kingston where she is Theatresign's resident sign language interpreter, plusThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Dreamboats & Petticoats at Southend and a very successful West End debut with Phantom of the Opera in 2010. She has since signed Cinderella at the Epsom Playhouse, the popular Hackney Empire pantomime, Jack & the Beanstalk and The Three Musketeers at the Rose Theatre Kingston, where she is due to return in December for The Snow Queen.

Paul Michaels

Paul trained on the very first Theatresign course and although he has completed all the training courses, he has been keen to return whenever possible. Paul made his interpreting debut with the Dulwich Players in A Murder is Announced and for South London Theatre he has interpeted Cleo,Camping,Emanuel & Dick and Saucy Jack & the Space Vixens, The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew and Entertaining Mr Sloane For Theatresign he has very successfully interpreted The Woman in Black at the Palace Theatre Southend and more recently Annie at the Churchill Theatre Bromley and Sleeping Beauty at the Beck Theatre in Hayes.His future shows include All the Fun of the Fair at the Cliffs Pavilion Southend and a return to the Beck Theatre for their 2011 pantomime.

Janet Guest

Janet has had a great love for Shakespeare since the age of 11 and made a big impact on one of the Theatresign training courses. She has interpreted As You Like It at the Rose Theatre Kingston in March 2011 as her Theatresign debut. Her professional experience includes The Comedy of Errors and Charley's Aunt at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and a number of shows for Exeter Little Theatre Company including Educating Rita and An Inspector Calls. She will again be interpreting As You Like It at the Royal Exchange Manchester later this year and is due to return to London in November for The Lion King

Karen Gager

Karen is an accomplished pianist and cellist with a long passion for musical Theatre. She decided to learn British Sign Language after an encounter with a deaf man on a station platform and after many years of both studying and working with sign language,has completed her post-graduate Diploma in BSL/English Interpreting at UCLAN. Since then she has trained with Theatresign and completed all the training courses. Karen has signed many shows for a local drama group and Theatresign shows include And Then there were None at the Palace Theatre Southend Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof and Flashdance at the Cliffs Pavilion Southend. Other interpreting work includes Billy Liar, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Antigone and Inspector Morse - House of Ghosts. This Christmas she has Aladdin and Murder on the Nile in 2012, both at Southend.

Rosemary Pell

Rosie completed a trio of training courses with Theatresign and made her debut in the West End with The Mousetrap in June 2010 and interpreted The Adventures of Santa Claus at the Palace Theatre Southend last Christmas and has also interpreted The BFG in the Norfolk area where she lives. She will be returning to Southend this Christmas to sign
The Holly and the Ivy

Brenda Devitt

Brenda is Theatresign's newest Theatre Interpreter having developed over two of the training courses and made her debut with Buddy at the Cliffs Pavilion Southend this June. She will be interpreting the Hackney Empire panto this Christmas

Julie Thompson

Julie qualified as an interpreter in 2001 and was immediately thrown in at the deep end by interpreting Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” at York Theatre Royal. In 2003 she became the regular interpreter at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, interpreting 46 plays, including 29 by Alan Ayckbourn. Highlights include “Intimate Exchanges” in 2006-7, a suite of 16 plays developed from an identical beginning with all parts played by only 2 actors, “Pirates of Penzance” with a modern re-writing of the Major General’s song and “The Champion of Paribanou” when the theatre had to be evacuated because the stage smoke set off the fire alarms. From 2006 to 2011 she also interpreted at the National Railway Museum in York for their resident theatre group, Platform 4, clocking up a total of 264 performances.

Julie has attended 4 Theatresign courses to date and firmly believes that there is always something else to be learned. She made her Theatresign debut with “The Importance of Being Earnest” at the Rose Theatre Kingston and in 2012 will interpret “The Mousetrap” in London’s West End.

Marie Pascall

Marie has attained a number of qualifications in British Sign Language Interpreting, Performing Arts and Dance. Her new challenge as part of her professional development is to explore the art of Theatre Interpreting.  With her passion for physical and musical theatre she attended Theatresign's training courses to develop and refine her skills as a performance Interpreter.  Marie hopes by combining her skills she will provide quality access and complement the production through her interpretation.  She is looking forward to her Theatresign debut in 2012 with Mamma Mia! in London's West End.

Anna Francis
 
After studying Theatre Arts Education and Deaf Studies at the University of Reading, completing her Sign Language qualifications with a Postgraduate Diploma in 2007 and two Theatresign courses she is very pleased to be making her Theatresign debut at the Rose Theatre Kingston in March 2012, with Lady from the Sea starring Joely Richardson. 

In 2007 she worked with Graeae Theatre Company as an actor/interpreter for their production of Flower Girls by Richard Cameron which toured the UK. Anna has also interpreted Peach Boy for Oxfordshire Theatre Company at the Old Fire Station Theatre in Oxford and Doctor Faustus for Creation Theatre Company. 

Last Christmas she interpreted Peter Pan at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon and Aladdin at the Bath Theatre Royal. She will be interpreting at the Wyvern again this Christmas for Cinderella and is very much enjoying the challenge of combining BSL with her experience and passion for theatre and live performance.