Performance Season
2023-2024
ISM II
Conceived & Directed by Michelle banks
November 29th-December 17th, 2023
Theater Lab II
Atlas Performing Arts Center
ISM II is the sequence of the original ISM created by the VOCA Ensemble. The new VOCA Ensemble of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) BIPOC individuals will share their true stories and experiences in American Sign Language (ASL) when exposed to societal “isms”, discriminatory practices, and oppression. As a result of social change, they express hope and freedom through Deaf Hip Hop culture: music, dance, poetry, multimedia, and storytelling.
A Not So Quiet Nocturne
Written by Jaye Austin-Willams
Directed by Alexandria Wailes
April 11th-21st, 2024
Lang Theater
Atlas Performing Arts Center
A young African-American Deaf woman who has contracted AIDS from her dead husband and gave birth to an AIDS-infected baby. After her baby’s passing, she must not only grapple with her family issues but help raise her nephew, who has fallen victim to the lures of the urban streets -- the life that killed his father.​