Events

Douglas Ridloff is a poet and visual storyteller creating original works in Sign Language. He is the owner, executive director and host of ASL SLAM (www.aslslam.com) a monthly open mic event in NYC that functions as a space for the Deaf community to creatively play with ASL through poetry performances, improv, games and storytelling, often bringing special guests from around the world to perform. As a widely popular platform, ASL SLAM has now been established as a monthly event in Washington DC, Chicago and Orlando with Douglas's visionary and guidance. Recently, Douglas has organized performances at the Whitney Museum, the Jewish Museum, SITE Santa Fe and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and has traveled to perform his own poetry and to bring ASL SLAM to Deaf communities around the world, including Jamaica, Cuba, Finland, England, Europe, Norway, Israel and Australia. He has worked as an ASL consultant for film and TV with the likes of John Kraskinski, Emily Blunt, Sam Rockwell, Donald Glover and Anthony Edwards. Douglas has been featured in NBC NEWS, Circa, HBO Vice, and CNN’s Great Big Story for his work. He gave a talk at TEDx Vienna in 2018. He is based in Brooklyn, New York, but currently lives in London with his two Deaf young boys and his wife Lauren Ridloff, the actress for The Walking Dead and The Eternals for Marvel.

ADMISSION COST ?
$30/Person - $50/Couple - $40/AT THE DOOR

(FREE for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Elementary to High School students with proof of a Student ID

info@deaffocus.org [mailto:info@deaffocus.org