What Meets the Eye?: The Deaf Perspective

Lisa Kelly has single-sided deafness. She is also half Danish. Her poems have appeared in Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press) and Carcanet's New Poetries VII. Her pamphlets are Philip Levine's Good Ear (Stonewood Press) and Bloodhound (Hearing Eye). She is a regular host of poetry evenings at the Torriano Meeting House, London and is co-Chair of Magma Poetry. Lisa is co-editor of The Deaf Issue, Magma 69. She has been shortlisted four times for the Bridport Prize, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition in 2016 and 2018 and won the 2016 University of Lancaster (MA) 'Reading' Prize. In 2019, she read at Poetry International, Southbank Centre for d/Deaf Republic: Poets on Deafness. In 2020, she was commissioned by Nottingham Trent University in partnership with the Science Museum to create a film-poem in collaboration with other poets responding to telephony from a d/Deaf and marginalised perspective. She is currently studying British Sign Language, and is a freelance journalist writing about technology and business.

Sophie Stone is an actor and writer. She is Co-Founder of Deaf & Hearing Ensemble Theatre Company and Associate Artist for The Watermill Theatre.Theatre includes: The Living Newspaper (The Royal Court); The New Tomorrow (The Young Vic); The Beauty Parade ( Wales Millennium Centre) As You Like It (Shakespeare's Globe); Emilia ( Shakespeare's Globe/ West End); Midsummer Night's Dream ( Watermill Theatre); Jubilee (Lyric, Hammersmith/ Manchester Royal Exchange); The Greatest Wealth (The Old Vic); The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep/ UK Tour); Herons (Lyric, Hammersmith); Mother Courage and Her Children (National Theatre); Mine (Shared Experience); Frozen (Birmingham Rep); Two (Southwark Playhouse); The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project (Northern Stage); In Water I'm Weightless (National Theatre of Wales); Pandora (Arcola); Woman Of Flowers (Forest Forge/UK Tour) and Multiplex, Fen and You Make Me Happy (When Skies are Grey) at The Watermill.Television includes: Moving On, Two Doors Down, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Shetland, The Crown, Doctor Who, Mapp and Lucia, Moonstone, Marchlands, Midsomer Murders, Small World, Holby City, Casualty and FM.Film includes: Retreat (Sophie was awarded Best Actress Award, Clin d'Oeil Festival), My Christmas Angel, Confessions and Coming Home.Writing includes: Beethoven Essay Series (BBC Radio 3), Multiple Scenes of Destruction (The Bunker Theatre), Maybe (Paines Plough/CTWIF), Butterfly (Talking Bodies/Hot Coals)