AWARD-WINNING DEAF ACTRESS TO PRESENT “A VIEW OF LIFE THROUGH SILENT EYES” AT OXNARD COLLEGE SEPT. 24, 2003
Deaf actress and director Julianna Fjeld, who co-executive produced the Emmy Award-winning “LOVE IS NEVER SILENT,” will present her story of survival as a deaf woman in the hearing world of the entertainment industry at 12 noon in the Letters and Science (LS-8) auditorium on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
The special presentation is made possible by the Deaf Oxnard College Students (D.O.C.S.) as part of their second annual Deaf Awareness Day observance. The program is the second event in the Fall 2003 Oxnard College Scholars Lecture Series.
In her presentation, “A View of Life Through Silent Eyes,” Ms. Fjeld will touch on the obstacles she faced in establishing her acting career and helping to make theatre and television more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences.
The presentation will be translated by sign-language interpreters Ila Sachs and Toni Penoit.
Ms. Fjeld is an accomplished deaf actress, theatrical director and Emmy-winning co-Executive Producer. She was one of the early pioneers making mainstream hearing theatre accessible to the Deaf through her role as Coordinator/Consultant of Project D.A.T.E (Deaf Audience Theatre Experience) at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Ms. Fjeld served as a consultant to the production of CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD at the Taper and on Broadway, where she also understudied and performed the lead role of Sarah Norman.
As Co-Executive Producer of the Emmy-Award winning Hallmark Hall of Fame production, LOVE IS NEVER SILENT, the first TV movie to feature deaf actors in lead roles during the prime time slot through NBC.
She has been featured in a number of stage and television/film productions, including DALLAS, CBS AND NBC Movies of the Week, THE TROJAN WOMEN, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE GLASS MENAGERIE AND A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. She was also seen as Luka in LOWER DEPTHS at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre. Most recently she was seen as a Bag Lady in her one-woman show entitled "An Evening with Julianna Fjeld," sponsored by D.E.A.F. Media, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum.
As a theatrical director, she directed NIGHT, MOTHER at New York Deaf Theatre in New York City. She also directed California School for the Deaf/Fremont's several spring productions such as SIGN ME ALICE, MIRACLE WORKER, INTO HIDING, ROMEO AND JULIET and LITTLE WOMEN. Ms. Fjeld was invited by Ohlone Community College's Deaf Center in Fremont, CA to direct two productions, "?" and ORDINARY PEOPLE. |
