"The Window" Staged Workshop Facts:

Natasha Ofili’s first play that she wrote and first time producing a staged theatre workshop under NIOVISION (2nd project produced; The Multi was the 1st)

• WACO Theater’s first time producing a play written by a Black Deaf woman (Natasha Ofili); the first play produced that surrounds and involves people with disabilities (deaf, cerebral palsy)

• Became creative with providing access in four different language modalities:

  • American Sign Language

  • Spoken English

  • Closed captions were projected above the stage

  • DeafBlind interpreting

• Predominantly BIPOC, deaf, and hard-of-hearing cast and crew

• Use of visual projection to display the closed captions and “notes,” created by a deaf video projection designer, Michael Epstein

• Over 40 people attended the staged workshop at WACO Theater Center