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The Lion King ASL Discrimination Suit: The Deaf/ASL Community Responds by Jonathan Mandell

Earlier this month, Keith Wann, a performance artist and long-time sign language interpreter for the Deaf on Broadway, filed a lawsuit against Theater Development Fund for rescinding its job offer for him to interpret a single performance of "The Lion King" because he is white and the actors for whom he would have been interpreting...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PM on November 17, 2022

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