The collection can be found at RIT Library Archives, 3660. Becky Simmons is the archivist and may be reached via raswml@rit.edu.

Organization: Boxes by dates and folders by headings

Overview of boxes:

1. Spring 1992, Tales from a Clubroom

2. Fall 1992; Trouble’s Just Beginning, A Play of Our Own

3. Spring 1993, Meta

4. Summer 1993, Sign Off

5. Fall 1993; Vanilla Crescents, Loveliest Afternoon of the Year

6. Spring 1994, The Week the World Heard Gallaudet

7. Spring 1995, Sign Me Alice

8. Spring 1996, Hear No Scream

9. Smaller Plays/Workshops

10. Lights On logo

11. Scripts

12. Miscellaneous

13. Photographs, negatives, posters, videos

Folders within each box:

Box 1. Tales from a Clubroom—Spring 1992

Introductory: photos and descriptions of cast members
News articles
Negatives, contact sheets, photos
Playbills: poster, programs
A letter to Patti
Auditions
Rehearsals
Schedules and calendars
Daily rehearsal reports
Props and floor plans
Script
Production meetings, letters, reports
Evaluations
Volunteer list
Fundraising
Rental equipments
Budget plan
Wrap up, finalization notes

Box 2. Trouble’s Just Beginning, A Play of Our Own—Fall 1992

Introductory: photos and descriptions of cast members
News articles, press releases
Poster, program books, tickets
Auditions
Contact list with phone numbers
Medical/Information forms
Calendars
Daily rehearsal reports
Props and floor plans
Production reports
Script
Administrative meetings and reports
Ticket sales, volunteers, expenses, and revenues
Statistics
Letters (correspondence)
Certificates of performance

Box 3. Meta—Spring 1993

Introductory: photos
Reporter (2 copies)
News articles, press releases
Program books, postcards
Auditions
Notes, calendars, attendance, cast list, checklist, prop list, recommended readings, TTD/TTY conversations
Dressing room rules, costume designs
Contact lists with phone numbers
Dennis Webster’s rehearsal and cue sheets
Production report, make-up workshops, ticket requests, cast members’ schedules
Production meeting minutes
David Ludwig Bloch’s paintings
Shannon Bradford’s script and structure charts
Script with notes
Script with spiral bound cover
Letters (correspondence)
Box office report

Box 4. Sign Off—Summer 1993

Introductory
Photos
Program book, information packet, playbills
Audition announcement
Cast/crew list, organization chart, contact list with phone numbers
Letters, expenses
Calendar
Measurement charts
Script

Box 5. Vanilla Crescents, Loveliest Afternoon of the Year—Fall 1993

Introductory
Photos
Playbills and tickets
Press releases and newspaper articles
Copyright
Sandi Inches Vasnick
Cast and crew
Calendar
Stage areas
Overview, play structure, props, and exercises
Both plays
First play
Second play
Expenditures and budget
TTY/TDD printouts
Letters and faxes
Handwritten notes

Box 6. The Week the World Heard Gallaudet—Spring 1994

Introductory
Photos
Announcements (t-shirts and tickets), tryouts, press releases, newspaper article
Brochures, program books, and tickets
Deaf President Now (DPN) buttons
Calendar
Notes and memos
Scripts (2 copies)
Ticket sales
Cartoons

Box 7. Sign Me Alice—Spring 1995

Introductory and photos
Audition/rehearsal
Names of characters, volunteers, contact list
Letter to Gil Eastman
Design, stage, props
Production meeting minutes
Playbill
Tickets
Press release
Overhead
Script with notes
Script

Box 8. Hear No Scream—Spring 1996

Introductory
Photos
Playbill
Articles
Cast list, interpreters
Coordinating committee, stage blocking positions, daily rehearsal report
Scene, props, other notes
Scripts (3)

Box 9. Smaller Plays/Workshops—Organized in alphabetical order

Acting workshop with Patrick Graybill (1994)
Coffeehouse stage areas
Coffeehouse (1994)
Coffeehouse (1995)
Coffeehouse “Kitchen Talk” (1996)
Coffeehouse III (1997)
Coffeehouse “Night of the Living Deaf” (1999)
Deaf Awareness Week (1999 and 2000)
Deaf Smith (1998)
Deaf Tales (2001)
The Painting (1999)
RSD’s 125th Anniversary (2000)
Theatre Arts and Education (TAE)
Lights On 5th anniversary “Traveling Down Memory Lane” (1997)
Who Wants to be a Deaf Millionaire (September 30, 2000)
Who Wants to be a Deaf Millionaire (April 21, 2001)
Who Wants to be a Deaf Millionaire (July 27, 2001)
Who Wants to be a Deaf Millionaire (December 8, 2001)
Who Wants to be a Deaf Millionaire (April 22, 2002)
Who Wants to be a Deaf Millionaire (August 22, 2002)
Willy Conley (1995)

Box 10. Lights On logo

Artist work by John Ratcliff
Magnets
Business cards
Letterhead
Invitation
Tickets

Box 11. Scripts

“A Deaf Family Diary” by Don Bangs (1995)

“Sign & Sound a lovin!” by Stephen C. Baldwin. January 1980 (in Orange clamp folder)

“Broken Spokes” by Willy Conley. No date. (Brown clamp folder)

“Play of our own, Part I” by Dot Miles. No Date. (Orange clamp folder)

“The Star” by Dorrie Teall. No date. (loose paper in folder)

“Laurent Clerc: A Profile” by Gilbert C. Eastman. No Date. (Blue Spiral bound notebook)

“Parade” by David Hays. 1975? (blue spiral bound notebook)

“The Christmas Oasis” by Stephen C. Baldwin. September 1979 (Orange clamp folder)

“A Play of Our Own, Part III” by Hartford Thespians and Dorothy Miles. June, 1978. (Orange clamp folder)

“Deaf Smith” by Stephen C. Baldwin. May 25, 1985. (Orange clamp folder)

“Develop, Divide, Destroy” by Stephen C. Baldwin. February 8, 1988? (Orange clamp folder)

“Side by Side” by Thomas K. Holcomb. Copyrighted 1994. (loose paper in folder)

“A Play of Our Own, Part IV” by Stephen C. Baldwin. November, 1983. (Orange clamp folder)

“Pale Sun, Vivid Moon” by Miles Barnes (?). 1997? (White Clamp Folder)

Box 12. Miscellaneous—Organized in alphabetical order

Administration 1992
Administration 1993
Administration 1994
Administration 1995
Administration 1996
Alumni song
Budget
Check lists
Deaf Rochester/Silent News
Deaf Rochester News
Deaf Rochester News (1999)
Deaf Rochester News (2001)
“Language of Love” by Drew Emery
Letters regarding scripts
Miscellaneous
Newsletters (Spring 1993 to Winter/Spring 1998, unknown date)
NY state by-laws
Rochester Grant Review
Summary of activities: Spring 1991 to Spring 1994
Yearbook

Box 13. Photographs, negatives, posters, videos (in box)

Video 1, Signrise (?) presents…A Deaf Family Diary, March 1994
Video 2, Lights on Logo (Lights On! Flying Logo, animated by Tracey Salaway. 45 min. in length), 1992
Video 3, Lights On Storytelling Troup – Many Voices/Many Visions, No date
Video 4, Willy Conley – Play Writing Workshop, May 13, 1995
Video 5, Sign Kirl Presents – Institution Blue, June 1993
Video 6, The week the world heard Gallaudet (bad tape), No date
Video 7, Story Telling Troupe Rehearsal, Feb 24, 1994
Video 8, RSD, No date
Poster 1, Sign Me Alice
Poster 2, The Painting (2)
Oversized photo 1, Sign Off
Oversized photo 2, Troubles Just Beginning
Rest is random / miscellaneous photos and negatives

Performing Arts
Photographs  (In drawer)

Folder 1    
                
Photos of META play  

3 11” x 14”
black and white photographs

 1  5” X 7” black and white photograph

ASL Black and White photograph

Time lapsed photograph of hand signing a-s-l

14” x 11”