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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 is doing on tour and at the Apollo Hammersmith this summer. Next year she is lined up for Cameron Mackintosh's Oliver at Drury Lane and the long-awaited Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith.

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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 currently the new Joseph starring Lee Mead from TV's Any Dream Will Do.


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Jodee Mundy

Jodee is a British Sign Language Intterpreter with a Post Graduate Diploma in BSL/English interpreting from SLI University of Central Lancashire. For Theatresign, she has interpreted The Lion King, Saturday Night Fever, Twelfth Night, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and has also interpreted many fringe theatre shows. She is on the Association of Sign Language Interpreters Arts Task Group and was the opening speaker at the European Federation of Sign Language Interpreters Conference- ‘Is interpreting an Art?’ in Oslo, Norway. When she is not interpreting, Jodee works on various other theatre projects as an actress and director in an emerging physical theatre company, Theatre in Translation. She is Associate Director-New Projects for Young D Roots, an emerging Deaf theatre company specialising in children and young people’s theatre. Jodee is also a specialised Corporeal Mime teacher and trained at the Ecole De Mime Corporeal Dramatique for four years and regularly teaches movement workshops
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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,is currently studying for her post-graduate Diploma in BSL/English Interpreting at UCLAN. She has signed many shows for a local drama group and for Theatresign: Chicago at the Cliffs Pavilion Southend, And Then there were None at the Palace Theatre Southend and Fiddler on the Roof later this year.

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Russ Aldersson

Russ’s work as a qualified Sign Language Interpreter has taken him to Australia and New Zealand as well as working in a freelance capacity in the UK.

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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Stephanie Cobb

Stephanie has previously interpreted Journey's End, Dracula,
Beyond Reasonable Doubt ,The Woman in Black and The Ghost Train at Southend Theatres where she returned for Dad's Army last year

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Rob Chalk debuted with Donna Ruane in the first-ever Theatresign-interpreted show, Annie at the Churchill, Bromley back in 1998 and again jointly interpreted The Twits at Crawley in 2001. After some years spent travelling, we were happy to welcome him back for Jack & the Beanstalk at Hackney Empire and Aladdin at The Beck Theatre, Hayes last year.

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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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