#ASL STORYTELLING PROFESSIONAL#

Currently, he is the founder of the Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant Foundation and Co-founder of Def Lens Media. His most recent theater credits include VOCA's ISM at the Atlas Performing Arts Center and The Music Man at Olney Theatre Center. He has attained outstanding credentials in its world-renowned as an actor, director, co-director, choreographer, International Deaf Performer, and Artist and assistant director for Quest Visual Theatre for the deaf and hard of hearing and occasional ASL sign consultant in theatre, music videos, ASL Coach, mentor, deaf rights, LGBTQ rights, and advocates and traveling the world.

#ASL STORYTELLING PROFESSIONAL#

Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant is a professional dancer an an alumni of Philadelphia's University of the Arts with a AA in Modern Dance.

She has been actively involved in several organizations in the deaf community such as Deaf Women of Color, National Deaf People of Color, and the Baltimore Chapter of the National Black Deaf Advocates. She loves to share her ASL stories with the Deaf community and she’d shared a couple of her stories in VOCA’s ISM at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. She was the former “Miss Deaf Minnesota Queen” in 1991, marking an important history as the first Black Deaf female to win the title.

In 1985 She attended Gallaudet University, and eventually transferred to North Central Bible University in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she received a B.A. She briefly attended the William Baer School in Baltimore City, Maryland, but graduated from the Maryland School for the Deaf in 1985.

Antines “NuNu” Davis was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.

She has a strong desire to continue to grow and develop as a performing artist, expanding representation to include differently-abled persons and empowering Black Deaf women in Canada to shine on and off the stage.

As an actress, Natasha has participated in numerous theatre and film productions. Throughout her life, she has nurtured her passion for fitness, competing as a professional athlete and securing medal positions in the Deaf Olympics, Pan Am Olympics, and many other competitive sporting events. Voice/ASL interpretation and real-time captioning (CART) will be provided.įor other reasonable accommodations, please contact the Center for Accessibility at least seven (7) days in advance at 20 or Natasha Cecily Bacchus is an athlete and performing artist and is passionate about deaf advocacy, fitness, and physical expression. BIPOC Deaf Storytellers from Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA) will perform stories in ASL about their lived experiences of oppression and discrimination associated with words ending with “ism” such as racism, audism, and genderism.

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