Luane Haggerty

Title

Principal Lecturer

Department

Creative and Cultural Studies

Institution

Rochester Institute of Technology

lrdnpa@rit.edu

Education

Ph.D. Leadership and Change through the Arts with a focus on Deaf Theater

Research Interests

American Sign Language Deaf Theater Leadership

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Biography

Luane Davis Haggerty, Ph.D. • Interborough Repertory Theater (IRT) Co-Founder irttheater.org • Rochester Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf Principal Lecturer of Creative and Cultural Studies/Creator of Theater Minor at Roberts Wesleyan College. • Actor • Director • Writer • Educator • ASL Interpreter • Luane Davis Haggerty is co-founder and Artistic Director (1982-2000) of the Interborough Repertory Theater (iRT IRTTheater.org ), a non-profit AEA Off-Off Broadway Company dedicated to inclusion and outreach to women, the disabled and other minorities. IRT is a long term member of The Alliance of Resident Theatres in New York and has been given awards and grants for their work with children, outreach programs, showcase work and Off-Broadway productions. She has been a Public Education Specialist for New York State Department of Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities and is now an Assistant Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology in the department of Creative and Cultural Studies. She is also the creator of the Del-Sign acting technique and Artistic Director of the Del-Sign Project in NYC, most recently profiled in Theatre Week, Village Voice and Time Out magazines. Del-Sign combines the disciplines of American Sign Language and Delsarte mime technique, opening doors of access and breaking ground for the art of performance. She has directed several of NTID'S most popular productions in this technique garnering a feature article in the Chronicle of Higher Education and winning the Industry’s Off Off Broadway Review Award. The Del-Sign technique is an invaluable educational tool as well and Ms. Davis has been a presenter at the Theater 2000 Convention in NYC, the International Thespian Society and the Convention for American Instructors of the Deaf. On the other side of the footlights, she has appeared on Broadway as a featured performer at Radio City Music Hall, Symphony Space. Her Off Broadway credits include all 13 of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas, as well as premieres of works by Robert Patrick and Joyce Carol Oates. Her regional and stock credits range from Shakespeare to Sondheim and she's been heard in a range of commercial voice overs. She won a Conde Nast #1 rating as a headliner on the American Queen, sharing the stage with Donald O'Connor, Steve Allen, Jane Meadows and Jack Jones. Ms. Davis has appeared in Rochester in GeVa Theater and at NTID's Panara Theater in the American Deaf Playwrights Festival. She has sung and signed the National Anthem to over 5,000 people at the Chase Corporate Challenge as well as at the Deaf Olympics. She has sung Jazz in New Orleans, Memphis and New York and her recent jazz CD REFLECTIONS is available at www.cdbaby.com As a writer, she is a member of the Dramatists Guild and has had five plays produced. She was awarded the Women's Midwestern Arts Council Award for her play, WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for WINDOWS OF THE SOUL. Her self-help book TAKING STAGE is used as an Arts Management text book and her novel the FRED-OIRS are available through www.lulu.com . She has been honored with several notable awards, among them are: Outstanding Young American , inclusion in WHO'S WHO in Theater and Governor Pataki's award for WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT.

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Contact Information

223 Westcombe Park, West Henrietta New York 14586

585-820-7902

Research

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List of Publications (11)

In 2016

Member, "Wednesday's Children," RIT Running/Walking group, weekly exercise and social event on campu s, 1999 to present ________________________________ International Haggerty, L. (2007). "Electronic Dissertations," Electronic T heses and D issertations (ETD) Consortium, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Haggerty, L. (2002). "ASL in Haiku," as part of the PEN Internationa l Project, Tskuba Haggerty, L. (2016) (publication accepted and pending) , "Delsarte in a Dea f Theater Rehearsal," Mime Journal Haggerty, L. (2016) (publication accepted and pending) "Day by Day: Notes on Directing a Dea f/hearing ca st in GODSPELL," Member Connector, a publication of the International Leadership Association (ILA), Apr il/May, 2016
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Haggerty. L. (2016) (contract signed and publication pending) , "Finding the Voices for Dea f Leadership," Howlround, an e-publication of the O ffice of the Arts, Emerson College, Boston, MA, Apr il/May, 2016
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Haggerty, L. (2011). "Off the Page and Onto Our Hands," Registry of Interpreters for the Dea f (RID) VIEWS monthly newsletter , Wa shington, DC (reprint; original Haggerty, L. (2012). "Off the Page and Onto the Stage," Acting II textbook . Self- National Haggerty, L. (2015), "Directing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Del-Sign Style," International Shakespeare Theater Association, San Francisco, CA Haggerty, L. (2012). "Using Student Devices in the C lassroom," Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (CAID) , Reno, NV Regional Haggerty, L. (2015). "Theatrical Interpreting Using Sign Language: Some Considerations," State University of New York (SUNY ), Geneseo, NY Haggerty, L. (2015). "Using Student Devices in the C lassroom," Educational Technology Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca , NY Haggerty, L. (2015). "Sign-Mime's Use in Translating Shakespeare," Rochester Shakespeare Society, Barnes and Noble Library, Pittsford, NY Haggerty, L. (2014). "Bi-Culturalism in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , Rochester Shakespeare Society, Barnes and Noble Library, Pittsford, NY Haggerty, L. (2014). "Dangerou s Signs Work shop," Geneseo Organization for Dea f Awareness (GODA), SUNY Geneseo, NY Haggerty, L. (2013). "Dangerou s Signs Work shop," Geneseo Organization for Dea f Awareness (GODA), SUNY Geneseo, NY Haggerty. L. (2013). "Emerging Leadership Research Findings," NTID National Advisory G roup (NAG) meeting LBJ Building, spr ing quarter, Rochester , NY Haggerty, L. (2012). "Dangerou s Signs Work shop," Sign Language Interpreter Training Program, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY Campus Haggerty, L. (2016). "Delsarte and the Implications for Modern Non-Traditional Casting," RIT's College of Liberal Arts, Rochester , NY Haggerty, L. (2014), "William 'Dummy' Hoy," Wallace Memorial Library Lecture series, February Haggerty, L. (2014), "William 'Dummy' Hoy," ASLIE Student Lecture Ser ies, March 2012 - 2013 to 2015 - 2016
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Haggerty, L. (2016) (publication accepted and pending) "Day by Day: Notes on Directing a Dea f/hearing ca st in GODSPELL," Member Connector, a publication of the International Leadership Association, Apr il/May, 20 16
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Haggerty. L. (2016) (contract signed and publication pending) , "Finding the Voices for Dea f Leadership," Howlround, an e-publication of the O ffice of the Arts, Emerson College, Boston, MA, Haggerty, L. (2016) (publication accepted and pending) , "Delsarte in a Dea f Theater Rehearsal," Mime Journal INTERPETING 2012 -- 2013 to 2015 - 2016
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In 2015

National ASL Interpreter/Coordinator /Mentor, "Clearwa ter Folk Festival," Croton-on-Hudson (NY), June 2012 - 2015
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Local Interpreter, "Oedipu s Rex," Kingfisher Productions, Gallery 74 Corn Hill, Rochester , NY, October 2015 ; "The Devil, the Witch, and the B lack smith," SouthWest Mission, South Wedge, Rochester (NY) , Interpreter, "Next to Normal," Pittsford Musicals, Inc., NTID Panara Theater, June 2015
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Interpreted, Recruited, Rehearsed, and Coordinated Team of 6 Interpreting Colleagues, Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I," and "Henry IV, Part II," Highland Park Bowl, Rochester Shakespeare Society, July 2015
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Fringe Festival Interpreter, "Cabinet of Wonders," "Princess Wendy's La te N ight Tease Room," and "Upside Downton Abbey," Spiegeltent and Kilborn Ha ll, Rochester Fringe Festival, Rochester (NY), September 19 and 24, and 26 respectively, 2015; "Jay Pharoah" and "20 Penny Circus," September 2014, Speigeltent. (NOTE: audiences included community Dea f/HH people and
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In 2012

Regional Coordinator, Interpreting Services, GEVA, Rochester (NY), 2012 to present.
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In 2002

Director, "Motion Poetry," selections from the NTID spr ing production of Carmen, presented during the graduation and convocation ceremonies of all RIT colleges, 2002
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