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Donna Ruane Donna is probably the West End's most prolific Sign Language Interpreter as she regularly interprets Jersey Boys,Billy Elliot, Chicago, Mamma Mia!, Dirty Dancing, Blood Brothers, Phantom of the Opera, We Will Rock You,Sister Act, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Oliver & The Lion King. In previous years shows have included Lord of the Rings, Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Spamalot, Annie, Evita, Grease, Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Rent, The Mousetrap, Mary Poppins, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Never Forget, 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 and Ian McKellen's Aladdin plus Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith. 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, for High School Musical which she also did on tour and at the Hammersmith Apollo. Bedroom Farce and Judi Dench's Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre Kingston. New shows include Hair, Love Never Dies and Legally Blonde plus The Wizard of Oz due in 2011. Donna is the Senior Interpreter at Theatresign, teaches on its training courses and has responsibility for mentoring new Theatre Interpreters. |
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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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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. For Theatresign, Skellig, Dumb Show at the Rose Theatre Kingston, plusThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe at Southend and a very successful West End debut with Phantom of the Opera this year.
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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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Paul Michaels Due to interpret The Woman in Black at the Palace Theatre Southend this July
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