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Donna Ruane Donna is probably the West End's most prolific Sign Language Interpreter as she regularly interprets Jersey Boys,Never Forget, Billy Elliot, Chicago, Mamma Mia!, Dirty Dancing, Blood Brothers, Phantom of the Opera, We Will Rock You & The Lion King. In the last year she has added Lord of the Rings, Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q and Spamalot. Previous West End shows have included Annie, Evita, Grease, Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Rent, The Mousetrap, Mary Poppins, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Bombay Dreams, The King & I, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Jailhouse Rock, The Witches of Eastwick,The Sound of Music and Cabaret. . At the Old Vic The Entertainer, A Moon for the Misbegotten starring Kevin Spacey, and Ian McKellen's Aladdin.. She has also regularly interpreted the Laurence Olivier Awards for the Society of London Theatre, interpreted at the Edinburgh Festival, and Unicorn Theatre's Opera for Children, Clockwork at the Royal Opera House. In the regions she has been resident Sign Language Interpreter at the Churchill Theatre Bromley, more recently for High School Musical which she also did on tour and at the Hammersmith Apollo.. This year she has covered Cameron Mackintosh's Oliver at Drury Lane and Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith as well as Sister Act and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. |
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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. |
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Karen Gager is an accomplished pianist and cellist with a long love and 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. She has signed many shows for a local drama group and for Theatresign: And Then there were None at the Palace Theatre Southend Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof and Flashdance at the Cliffs Pavilion Southend.
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Paula Cox To date she has interpreted The Wizard of Oz at the Epsom Playhouse, Seussical the Musical at the Secombe Theatre, Sutton, Rent at the Arthur Cotterell Theatre, Kingston-Upon-Thames and Sweet Charity at The Leatherhead Theatre and has several more productions in the pipeline including My Fair Lady in Epsom and for Theatresign, Skellig at the Rose Theatre Kingston,
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Russ Aldersson Among the wide range of interpreting he undertakes, he particularly enjoys working in entertainment settings such as music events and Theatre in which his regional work includes The Rocky Horror Show, Annie, Little Voice, View from the Bridge, Abigail’s Party, Fiddler on the Roof, The Diary of Anne Frank, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Chicago Acorn Antiques and The 39 Steps in London’s West End where last year he also inrerpreted Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre.
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Robert Skinner has just made his Theatresign debut with a highly-successfol interpretation of the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap which he will continue to interpret in the future and is well-known for his highly-regarded work on BBC TV's "See Hear" programme
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