Playwright Discovery Award Teacher's Guide - The John F. Kennedy ...

GET TO KNOW A PLAYWRIGHT: Willy Conley is a playwright, photographer, actor, director,
and Professor and Chair of Theater Arts at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. His plays include
The Hearing Test (1991), which won the One-Act Play Award of the Sam Edwards Deaf Playwrights
Competition, and The Universal Drum (2004), which is a play for young audiences. In 2009, his
collection of plays, Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays, was published. As an actor, he
has appeared in NBC’s Law & Order and performed on stage with the National Theatre of the Deaf,
Pilobolus Dance Theater, Amaryllis Theatre, and others.
Photo: Willy Conley
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