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This page contains interviews, video clips, and newspaper articles.

Book promo:

Listening Through the Bone

Book promo:

The Deaf Heart

Book promo:

Visual-Gestural Communication

Play promo:

Goya: en la Quinta del Sordo

Interview: “Envisioning the Good, the Beautiful, and the Ugly: American Deaf Adaptation and Appropriation of ‘Everyman.’”; The Year's Work in Medievalism

Interview:

NTID/RIT Tiger Media interviewing me about "The Deaf Heart" and my photo exhibit.

Interview:

Deaf Artists Backstage interview by Joey Caverly.

Interview:

From "HeART of Deaf Culture" DVD series by Patti Durr & Karen Christie

Book promo:

Dr. Steve Baldwin shares his views of my book, "Visual-Gestural Communication" (around 2:20 on on the video clip.

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The Grind -- Questions on the Creative Process

The editor of Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature & Art interviewed me in Issue 5, 2020-2021.

Article: "Meet the Author - Willy Conley"

Source, Howard County Library System, Winter 2017; pg. 4

Feature article: "Theatre Signs"

Towson University Magazine, Fall 2016

Amazon Author Page

Miles and Mow Literary Award

Award presented by Dr. Steve Baldwin on behalf of Deaf TV Foundation at the Texas School for the Deaf; 12/14/2019

Miles & Mow Literary Award Tokens

Tokens were handed out to workshop participants and the audience after the awards presentation.

Featured in NY Times article

"An International Gathering for the Deaf in the Arts"; July 8, 2001; The Arts, B1.

"Best Bets: Playwright Brings Deaf Performance to Cochran

One-man-show promo in the Macon Telegraph.

Associate Artist, CenterStage

Pre-show chat with deaf and hearing audience.

Featured Interview; videoclips & photos of plays

"The HeART of Deaf Culture -- Literary and Artistic Expressions of Deafhood"

Article mention: Associate Artist

"Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of (Economic) Virtue & (Artistic) Happiness"; CenterStage "How I Learned to Drive" program; 1998, pg. 19.

Interview: "Key Roles On & Off Stage"

"The Next Stage at Center Stage, v5 n2; pg. 1

Article: "For Conley, a New Son, a New Play"

Baltimore Sun article on birth of my son and a new play, "Tales From India."

Presenter

Unbound Book Festival

"Get to Know a Playwright: Willy Conley"

Featured playwright in "VSA Playwright Discovery Resource Guide;" pg. 16

Article: "Gallaudet's 'Goya: en la Quinta del Sordo' a Success"

Silent News, April 2002, pg. 20

Article: "Getting Personal With the Playwrights

My co-writer, John Augustine, and I were interviewed about our collaboration on writing "Oh, Figaro!"

TV Interview: "Offhand"

With Ed Waterstreet and David Hays

NTID "The Deaf Heart" Book Signing

NTID/RIT Alumni News

The Making of "For Every Man, Woman, and Child"

Web article about creating the deaf-hearing community production of this play at Kent State University, Trumbull.

Web Page Feature

Kent State University, Trumbull

"Interview with U.S. Playwright Willy Conley"

Write Local. Play Global.

"'Broken Spokes'at Gallaudet University Theatre"

Play review

Team Member: ASL Core

Photo: The Yellow House

Howard County Arts Council