Willy Conley

Education

Works

Artistic activities

Awards

• One-Act Play Award, The Sam Edwards Deaf Playwrights Competition for the play "The Hearing Test" 1990.
• American Deaf Drama Award for the plays "Broken Spokes" and "The Hearing Test" 1990.
• The Laurent Clerc Fund for Cultural Advancement for the play "The water falls", Gallaudet University 1996.
• First place at the "Lamia Ink! 8th Annual International One-Page Play Festival", New York 1998.
• PEW/Theatre Communications Group National Theatre Artist Residency Program grant for the play "Falling on Hearing Eyes" 1999.
• VSA 2000 Playwrights Discovery Award 2000.
• Nominee for Outstanding Artist, Governor's Arts Award at ArtSalute, The State of Maryland and Maryland Citizens for the Arts Foundation 2002.
• Nominee for the National American College Theatre Festival selection for the play "Goya: en la Quinta del Sordo " 2008.

  Published writings

• "It Could've Happened to Anyone ", Symposium Magazine, Spring 1981, Vol. II #2.
• "Island of Intrique", In between Magazine, February 1984, 20 – 22.
• "Warm and Inspiring" NTID Focus, Fall 1986, 19.
• "A Photographic Memory" Kaleidoscope – an international magazine of fine arts, literature, and disability, No. 18, Winter/Spring 1989, 16 – 18
• "Day 57 – On the Road With the National Theatre of the Deaf", Uncharted, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fall 1990, 4 – 8.
• "Kindergarten To College – a personal narrative", Post-Secondary Education and the Hearing Impaired Student, London, England: Routledge Publishers; 1991.
• “The Hearing Test”. "The Seawall." "One Frame Per Second." No Walls of Stone: an anthology of literature by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers, Gallaudet University Press; 1993.
• "Day 57." article quoted, Pictures in the Air, Stephen C. Baldwin, 45, 46 Gallaudet University Press; 1993.
• "The Horn." Hearing Health. Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep–Oct 1996, 9—10.
• "Coyote Bones." Modern Haiku. Winter-Spring 1997, 6.
• "Olives." Hearing Health. Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov–Dec. 1998, 40—41.
• “Disconnected.” Lamia Ink!; January 1998, 4.
• "In Search of the Perfect Sign Language Script – insights into the diverse writing styles of Deaf playwrights." Deaf World. Lois Bragg, ed; NYU Press, 2001; 147–161.
• "Away from Invisibility Towards Invincibility: Issues of Deaf Theatre Artists in America." Deaf World. Lois Bragg, ed.; NYU Press, 2001; 51–67.
• “From Lipreading Ants to Flying Over Cuckoo Nests.” American Theatre. April 2001, 34–37, 60–61.
• “The Loneliest Game in the World.” Hearing Health; summer 2001.
• “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku; The Washington Post; Oct 28, 2001, F1.
• “Bicyclists Welcome.” The Baltimore Sun; Mar 10, 2002, 3R.
• “The water falls. – a play” The Tactile Mind; Autumn 2002, 22–77.
• “Every Man Must Fall.” “Salt in the Basement.” “The Cycle of the X-Ray Technician.” “The Perfect Woman.” The Deaf Way II Anthology; 2002, 171–188.
• “Sifting Dirt.” The Tactile Mind; Winter 2002– 2003, 12–19.
• “Broken Spokes – a play.” The Tactile Mind; 2003.
• “Olives.” The Tactile Mind; Spring 2003, 33–39.
• “The Universal Drum – a visual poem with drum accompaniment.” Theatre for Young Audiences Today; v17, n2, 2003, 10.
• “America Needs More Visual Theatre!” Opening Stages; The Kennedy Center; Mar. 2005; 10–12.
• "Untitled." Stages of Transformation: Collaborations of the National Theatre Artist Residency Program; Charlotte Stoudt, ed; Theatre Communications Group, 2005; 113.
• “The Face of Grace.” Urbanite; Dec. 2006; 25.
• “Signing the Body Poetic.” University of California Press; Chapter 10: Visual Screaming: Willy Conley's Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin's Silent Cinema by Carol Robinson; writings quoted ; video interview in enclosed book DVD; 2007.
• “With Enthusiasm – All Things Great.” Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education; Book Review, Feb 25, 2008; 0: enn002v1-enn002.
• “Deaf American Poetry.” John Lee Clark, ed.; Gallaudet University Press; poems; 2009; 190–197.
• “Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays.” Twelve plays by Willy Conley; Gallaudet University Press; 2009.

  Theatre plays

• "Broken Spokes" New York Deaf Theatre, 1990.
• "The Hearing Test" Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston University, 1991.
• "Olives" 10th Annual NeWorks Theatre Festival, New Theatre, Boston, 1999.
• "Disconnected" directed by Herbert Gantschacher and performed at The First European and International Deaf Theatre Festival presented by ARBOS – Company for Music and Theatre at the Theater des Augenblicks 2000, Vienna, Austria; included a tour in Vienna and Salzburg.
• "The Fallout Shelter" The John F. Kennedy Center Theatre Lab, Washington, D.C., 2000.
• "Falling on Hearing Eyes: a museum of Sign /anguish for People with Communication Disorders" Amaryllis Theatre Company & National Theatre of the Deaf, Philadelphia and Deaf Way II, Washington, D.C., 2002.
• "Goya – en la Quinta del Sordo " co-written with Iosif Schneiderman, Deaf Way II, Washington D.C., 2002.
• "The water falls" Quest: Arts for Everyone; Onley, 2003.
• "Oh, Figaro!" National Theatre of the Deaf, Hartford, 2003.
• "Tales from India" Imagination Stage, Bethesda, 2004.
• "The Universal Drum" Imagination Stage, Bethesda, 2004; directed by Herbert Gantschacher and performed at The Eleventh European and International Deaf Theatre Festival presented by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre at the Tanz Atelier 2011, Vienna.

  Literature

• Carol Robinson "Visual Screaming: Willy Conley’s Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin’s Silent Cinema", 2007.