Director

LUANE DAVIS HAGGERTY

585-820-7902(cell) Director/Choreographer

223 Westcombe Park, West Henrietta, NY 14586

Professional Affiliations: Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, League of Professional Theatre Women AEA, AFTRA, SAG, Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Dramatists Guild, Deaf Entertainment Guild, ART/NY

New York – OFF OFF BROADWAY (shows with * indicate a performance in both American Sign Language and Spoken English)

DANGEROUS SIGNS* IRT Theater Christopher Street

RAISIN IN THE SUN* New York City Deaf Theater Festival

EMPEROR JONES* The New 42nd Street Theater

OOBR (Off Off Broadway Review) Award Best Overall AEA showcase of NYC 2000-2001 season

THE TEMPEST* Quintero Theater

Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education

WINDOWS OF THE SOUL* Interborough Repertory Theater (winner NYC Deaf Theater Festival 2006 – nominated 2007 Pulitzer prize in Drama)

SIGN-ARELLA* (musical) Interborough Repertory Theater

BYE BYE AMY Waverly Place Theatre

ELVIS LIVES Samuel Beckett Theatre

NIGHT CHECKERS AT THE RED APPLE Willoughby Theatre

ANOTHER POT OF BASIL Musical Theatreworks

REACH FOR THE SKY Pearl Theatre

THE OWNER Director’s Lab (311 42nd St.)

INTERVENTIONS OF THE HEART Madison Ave Studios

MOTION POETRY* Samuel Beckett Theatre

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM* Samuel Beckett Theatre

ROMEO AND JULIET Samuel Beckett Theatre

A FLEA IN HER EAR* Samuel Beckett Theatre

TWELFTH NIGHT* Wings Theater, DIDM Festival

Bryant Park NYC, Signature Theatre

SEEING DOUBLE* Urban Stages

GODSPELL* IRT, Lexington School

COVID Online productions

Spoon River Anthology RIT/NTID

Mousetrap RIT/NTID

REALLY Blue Ink Productions MuCCC

STOCK

GODSPELL*(dir/choreo) GEVA, Fielding Stage

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS GEVA, Fielding Stage

MAN OF LA MANCHA Dangerous Signs MuCCC Theater

THE MAN IN THE CASE(dir) IRT New Directions

THE APPLE TREE(assit dir – tour) Maverick Theatre

CHARLIE BROWN Newburgh Civic Assoc

SLEEPY HOLLOW Panara Theater

A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING Wings Theater

GOD’S FAVORITE Kitchen Theater (Ithaca)

TWO FOR THE SEESAW Kitchen Theater (Ithaca)

UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY

FENCES* RIT/NTID Panara Theater

Winner Kennedy Center College Theater Festival

IN THE HEIGHTS, HAIRSPRAY, DAMN YANKEES, GUYS AND DOLLS, OTHELLO* RIT/NTID

BARNUM Roberts Wesleyan College

MIRACLE WORKER RWCCT

MIKADO RWCCT

IOLANTHE Off Monroe Players

BRIGADOON (Roberts Wesleyan College Community Theater)

VAGINA MONOLOGUES RIT/NTID Women’s Center

EYE MUSIC (dir/choreo/writer)* RIT/NTID Hispanic Deaf Club

LUTE SONG (dir/choreo/writer)* RIT/NTID Asian Deaf Club

THE FOREIGNER* RIT/NTID

WALLS* RIT/NTID

CARMEN (dir/choreo/adaptation)* Dangerous Signs

THE RAVEN* Dangerous Signs

HOW TO SUCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Pittsford Musicals

A TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Crosswards Company

I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Anchor Christian Church

MOTION POETRY* Commission on Pluralism

CABARET

Rochester Fringe Festival 14 years Dangerous Signs

BETWEEN FRIENDS(dir/choreo cruise ship/hotel revue) Perlman Assoc.

Celebrity Cruises

ACT OF DESPERATION (choreo) Don’t Tell Mama, Palson’s, The Dive IF THE SHOE FITS (wrote/dir./perform) Delta Queen Steamboat Company,

SAME OL’SHILLELAGH (tour hotels/cruise lines) IRT

A SALUTE TO VAUDEVILLE (tour hotels/cruise lines) IRT

A TRIBUTE TO FRED ASTAIRE (tour hotels/cruise lines) IRT

DEAF JAM POETRY* Dyer Art Gallery, Lovin’ Cup

READ MY LIPS POETRY* Wallace Library

CHILDREN’S THEATRE

(dir/choreo – tours for Interborough Repertory Theater unless otherwise indicated)

GIFT OF THE MAGI BECKY THATCHER

NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING TOM SAWYER

WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MISS NELSON IS MISSING

LITTLE MATCHGIRL SIGN-ARELLA*

BABA YAGA THE WITCH CINDERELLA

WORLD IN MY HANDS (story of Helen Keller)* STUART LITTLE

RAP PRINCESS AND THE PEA SNOW QUEEN

MOTION POETRY* CHRISTMAS CAROL

GLOBAL THUNDER (for Artspower International Co.)*

SHE SAYS (American Museum of History NYC)

STORY SIGN (New York Deaf Theater)*

WALLS NTID touring theater “Dangerous Signs”*

HANSEL AND GRETEL

WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

PROMISE OF THE PARK (Artists in Motion)

GUEST DIRECTOR/LECTURER

Shakespeare Theater Association (STA), San Francisco “Deaf/hearing Shakespeare production”

American Theater of Higher Education (ATHE) Houston, TX “Embodied Playwrighting”

Quest Fest, Baltimore MD “Handamation” technology use in live performance

Uppsala Sweden at the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Awards – International

Librarian’s Association “Adjusting the Margins; Deaf Leadership in the Arts” 2007

New York City Deaf Theater Festival “Seeing Double”, using Deaf and hearing actors on

the same stage. 2006

International Leadership Association, Washington D.C., Leadership and Change through

the Arts, 2004

Kent State University, International Shakespeare Conference “Colonialism in Tempest”

discussing Del-Sign Acting with scenes from “the Tempest”

Rochester Council of the Arts, Rochester NY 2004 “Urban Development and the concept

of a Cultural Mall”

DeafWay II Conference Washington D.C. 2002

National Shakespeare Association Conference, Kent State University Ohio 2003

Theatre 2000 The Educational Theatre Association Sheraton Hotel NYC

subject: “ In A Woman’s Direction”, women’s directoral perspectives

Career and Education Expo, NYS Dept Ed, NYC Dept of Employment

Jacob Javitts Convention Center NYC with National Improv Theatre

subject: “Taking Stage”,creating your own work in theatre

New York State Teacher’s Association, Rochester School of the Arts,

Del-Sign Acting Technique 2003

Goddard College, Plainfield VT, BA/MA Residency 1993

subject: TAKING STAGE, creating your own work in Theatre

Goddard College, Plainfield VT, BA/MA Residency 1992

subject: “DAVIS DELSIGN”, combining with work of Francious Delsarte

(1870’s) with American Sign Language developing a new physical approach to

acting.

St. Vincent’s Hospital, 36 Seventh Avenue NYC

subject: “The Visual Community”series of workshops for Medical

professionals on how to bridge the gap between Deaf and hearing communities

creating an “unhearing, unDeaf” visual commonality.

Gallaudet University, Washington DC, Del-Sign Workshops

International Thespian Society Conference, Lincoln Nebraska, Del-Sign Workshops

STAFF AFFILIATIONS

Founder “Stagehands”, Agency for training and hiring Theatrical ASL Interpreters. present
ASL Coordinator and access services GEVA Theater, present
Co-Founder and former Artistic Director, Interborough Repertory Theater (IRT) 1986-present
Assistant Professor/Director for the Creative and Cultural Studies Department/ Principle Lecturer Performing Arts Department, National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology (1998-2024)
Artistic Director Theater Professor Roberts Wesleyan Community Theater (1999/2000, 2002-2003)
Creator of the Theater Minor Program at Roberts Wesleyan College and primary instructor – 2005-2007
Artistic Director Pittsford Musicals 200/2001
Producer, THE BOY WHO SAW TRUE, IRT Production at Waverly Place Theatre
- Winner 1993 Best Off Broadway One-Man Show Backstage tradepaper.
Co-Artistic Director, Maverick Theatre Company 1983-1986
Assistant Artistic Director, Fortune’s Fancy Theatre Company 1982-1983
Staff performance Interpreter Rochester Children’s Theater (1999-2003) and Nazareth College Theater (2003-2005), Theater young Kids Enjoy TYKES 2005-2008
Choreographer, Anchor Christian Church Crosswards Company (1999-2003)

WRITER

Books

THE LITTLE TRAIN THE COULD, an annotated history of the Interborough Repertory

Theater (IRT) lulu.com

TAKING STAGE, “how to” book on creating your own work in theatre

Lulu.com

ACTING I; DEL-SIGN TAKES STAGE textbook

FRED-OIRS, young adult novel from a cat’s point of view lulu.com

DEL-SIGN SERIES OF SIDE BY SIDE TEXT, standard theater pieces with Edits and American Sign Language gloss translation side by side with the English.

TELA Archives lulu.com

Dramatic Scripts

Windows of the Soul (2007 Pulitzer Prize nominee) Dramatist Publication pending

Women of the American Revolution, children’s musical IRT productions 1991-1992

winner of the Mid-Western Women’s Conference Award for one act musicals

The World in Her Hands (the inspiring story of Helen Keller), children’s musical

IRT productions 1993-1994 Saturday Theatre for Children, a division of the American Theatre Wing acknowledged this “the best children’s musical in ten years” -Joan Lavin Artistic Director

Little Matchgirl, children’s musical, IRT production 1996-98

Little Women, children’s musical, IRT production 1999

Looking Glass, women’s issue avant garde AEA showcase 1999

Dating Again, comedy AEA showcase 1999, 2001 GEVA writer’s showcase

EYE MUSIC, Hispanic visual artists, one act 2000

LUTE SONG, Asian-American perspective is TV talk show format one act, 2000

WALLS, review of Deaf perspectives on 9/11 tour 2001-2003

Carmen, adaptation of the opera “Carmen” into Deaf culture 2006-2007

Notable Articles

Dissertation : “Adjusting The Margins: Building Bridges Between Deaf and Hearing Culture” by Luane Ruth Davis Haggerty

Day by Day | HowlRound Theatre Commons

Learning from the Leaders | HowlRound Theatre Commons

Building Communication in the Classroom Beyond Language | HowlRound Theatre Commons

Essays on François Delsarte, American Journal of Mime, 2002 page 202

Living Life Out loud, “Emergent Models of Leadership”International Leadership Association 2003 page 67-79

The Blending of Cultures, “Responses to National Theater for the Deaf’s production of BIG RIVER”, Arts & Leisure Section New York Times Sunday Issue , August 3, 2003

Cultural Mall: using the Arts to build a community “Guest Essayist”, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, A-23 September 16, 2004

(note: 5 more guest essays followed this one on the same topic)

The Play’s the Thing RIT Scholarship Newsletter, October 2008, page 7

Theatrical Interpreting, Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Journal, 2007 cover article

EDUCATION

Antioch University PhD Leadership and Change in the Arts 2006 Deaf Theater

Hunter College BS, Music/Theatre 1983

Goddard College MA, Arts Administration 1993

ASL Interpreter New York Society for the Deaf. Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

The Julliard School, Stage Interpretation 1992-1995

Awards:

Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival Best Direction for “Fences” 2024

RIT Distinguished Public Service Award 2023

Off Off Broadway Review Award (OBIE), Best overall Showcase of the New York City Season (Director) for Emperor Jones 2003

Who’s Who in American Theatre listed 1997-present,

Governor Ptaki’s Outstanding Young Woman, “Women Run New York” 1997

R.I.D. Certification C.T. pending: NIC written exam passed

Nominated Excellence in Teaching Award 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,

2006, 2007 RIT

Nominated Isaac J Jordan Pluralism Award RIT Faculty 2003

Nominated 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

Nominated NSC humanitarian Award 2000 & 2006

Guskin Research Award

Innovative teaching 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (Grant provided by RIT Student Affairs for ASL poetry presentations)