Willy Conley

Willy Conley is a retired professor of Theatre and Dance at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Conley is an award-winning playwright and photographer. His work has had professional productions nationwide and internationally, and been published widely in anthologies and periodicals. He has a novel, "The Deaf Heart," and two books of plays, "Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays" and "Broken Spokes." His plays have been produced at venues that include the Kennedy Center, the Boston Center for the Arts, ARBOS (Tanz Atelier), CenterStage, and the National Theatre of the Deaf (tour). He has garnered awards from the VSA Playwrights Discovery Competition, The American Deaf Drama Festival, the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund, and is the recipient of a PEW/National Theatre Artist Residency grant.

The most recent additions to his list of books are: "Visual-Gestural Communication -- a Workbook in Nonverbal Expression and Reception" and "Listening Through the Bone -- Collected Poems." Also included in Conley's bibliography are anthologies where his work has appeared.