ASL Theatre & Film
Sachs was instrumental in launching and supporting the Deaf West Theatre Company at the Fountain Theatre in 1991. The company won the Tony Award for its acclaimed ASL-version of Big River on Broadway in 2003. His play about deafness and cochlear implants, Sweet Nothing in My Ear, was recently made into a television movie starring Jeff Daniels and Marlee Matlin, and presented on the Hallmark Hall of Fame on April 20, 2008. The teleplay and adaptation are by Mr. Sachs himself, and the film was directed by Joseph Sargent.
Sachs' play about deafness and language, Open Window, had its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2005, winning the California Governor’s Media Access Award for Theatre Excellence.
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