11/06/2026
¡Orale! Felicidades to the ASL and Audio Description teams for Oedipus El Rey, who represented with English-Español language fluency and Latino cultura - meet them in the Image Descriptions in the comments! Our last purple-powered performances with The Huntington this season will be ASL-interpreted Eureka Day with DASL Léon Jerfita with ASL interpreters Janine Sirignano and Julia Barnes on June 26th at 7:30pm. Catch us at many other AD, ASL, and Open Captioned performances all around Boston in June by keeping up on our socials and subscribing to our newsletter at ThinkOutsideTheVox.org.
Video Description: seven second video with no audio of two ASL interpreters wearing black tops and beige bottoms sitting in chairs facing a corner of the audience which is in a blackbox style set up. Luke Baer, a white man with a clean shaven head and blond beard wears black glasses. Juana Aguilar, an Afro-Latina woman with caramel complexion, big curly ginger hair, ginger eyebrows wears a septum nose piercing. Both give Deaf applause/waving hands turning around to the actors behind them, who give waving hands and smiles back during curtain call. All male actors are in their orange jumpsuits and high knee socks, with Jocasta, the woman who played Oedipus’ mother, wearing a red dress, gold hoop earrings, and barefoot on the flat stage. Audience to the left of the actors and around the space stand or sit giving applause with claps and waving hands.
Image Description 1: group photo of majority of access team members and VOX reps standing in the lobby with a blue wall and the Huntington season 2025-2026 poster in red with yellow icons and show names in maroon and white behind them. From left to right: Blind QC and AD Consultant Kwaku Darko, a 5’8” dark-skinned African man with short, black hair and a short beard that frames his face and chin wears black sunglasses, a purple VOX shirt, silver African pendant necklace and jeans, holding his cane in front of him, leaning slightly to the left, smiling. VOX rep Sam Gould, an Ashkenazi Jewish woman with salt and pepper hair worn down wears a black shirt, purple VOX jacket and lanyard, black pants with an arm around Luis. Pre-show Audio Describer Luis Cotto, a 5 foot 6 inch Latinx male in his 50s with tan complexion and short cropped greying hair and beard wears round framed dark glasses, a pan African flag colored crochet beanie, black shirt with a robotic style head printed, khaki shorts, smiling with arms around Sam and Maria. In-show Audio Describer Maria Hendricks, a brown-skinned Afro-Indigenous woman wears blue dangly earrings, a purple VOX shirt and lanyard, a smartwatch, a short wrist sleeve, yellow manicured hands and black pants, hand leaning on left thigh and leaning forward, smiling. VOX rep Kristin Johnson, a Deaf white woman with short brown hair wears gray framed glasses, a white shirt, black and yellow neckscarf, black jacket, jeans, bending knees and arms around Maria and Juana, smiling. ASL interpreter Juana wears a black blouse with black and white striped pants, knees bending and posing with two peace signs and pouted lips. ASL interpreter Luke wears blue framed glasses, a navy baseball hat, black button down and brown pants, leaning in to the right and gesturing up at the poster behind them, smiling with mouth open.
ID 2: Director of Artistic Sign Language Ivy Vélez, a Deaf Latina with short salt and pepper hair, warm brown eyes and bright smile wears dark framed glasses, a black shirt, and beige pants, smiling behind Juana and Luke who are seated in position for the show as described in the video description in the caption. Audience behind them start to fill the bleacher style seats.
ID 3: Luis sits in the balcony seats on the house left perimeter of the stage. He faces away from the camera towards the audience, speaking into a stenographer microphone or steno mic, delivering the preshow while reading his script on the laptop screen in front of him. Other items on the table include an AD headset and receiver, his glasses, ginger candies and cough drops, disinfectant wipes, Maria’s printed AD script in a binder with yellow highlights, a clip light, and pen and paper so Luis and Maria can communicate with each other during delivery/the show. One of the messages read “pick up pace a bit.”
Photo/video credits: Christopher Robinson, Ingrid O'Dell and Maria Hendricks
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