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Douglas Ridloff is a renowned poet and visual storyteller, creating original works in American Sign Language (ASL). His performances have earned him national and international acclaim, with appearances in countries such as Jamaica, Cuba, France, Germany, Israel, Australia, and the United Kingdom. He has also performed at prestigious venues, including the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and SITE Santa Fe. His work has been featured by major outlets like NBC News, Circa, HBO, Vice, CNN’s Great Big Story, and at TEDxVienna and TEDxUniGeneva.

Beyond his own creative work, Douglas is a passionate advocate for ASL literature. He is the executive director of *ASL SLAM*, https://www.aslslam.org/

Douglas also extends his passion for ASL to the film industry as a producer and director. He produced and directed the short film *Idle Hands*, for which he won the Best Director award at the Clin d'Oeil Festival. Most recently, he served as a Consulting Producer for Marvel’s *ECHO* and has worked as an ASL Consultant for various high-profile film and television projects, including *A Quiet Place 1 & 2*, Marvel’s *Eternals*, *Saturday Night Live*, *Hawkeye*, and *Only Murders in the Building*.

Selected Poetry / Performance / Events / Workshops

2022

PJ Library, location (performer) The Story of Purim in ASL

2021

Radcliffe-Harvard Institute (performer, presenter) Transients: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Douglas Ridloff

2020

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (organizer, host, performer) Deaf Cultural Festival

2019

TEDxUniGeneva (performer) Seeing Music

The Jewish Museum, New York City (performer) Poet Douglas Ridloff Responds to OY/YO & Douglas Ridloff Responds to Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything

Planet Word, Washington, D.C. (performer) The Spoken Word

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (performer, presenter) The Sophistication of Sign Language Poetry: A Workshop by Douglas Ridloff

Rochester Institute of Technology (performer, presenter) Embodying Theory in the Classroom.

2018

TEDxVienna (performer, presenter) Deaf Poets Society

9/11 Memorial Museum (performer, presenter)

Whitney Museum (curator, performer, presenter)

Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf, Jamaica, (workshop leader)

Australia Tour (performer) Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairnes, and Perth

Israel Tour Sign (performer) Tel aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa

Norway Tour (performer, workshop leader) Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Bergan, and Sandefjord

2016

The Met Museum, Met Signs Tour in ASL: Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence

SITE Santa Fe, (performer) Moebius Path by Francisca Benitez with Douglas Ridloff

Whitney Museum, (curator, performer, presenter)

9/11 Memorial Museum (performer)

The Jewish Museum, New York City (performer, host) ASL SLAM

Columbia College, Chicago (artist in residence)

2015

LaGuardia Community College, New York City (workshop leader)

St. Petersburg College Clearwater Campus (workshop leader)

2013

Northeastern University, Boston (workshop leader)

Deaf Film Camp: Creative Content Development (workshop leader)

2008-2018

Douglas Ridloff Live! & The Capital D Show (performer, creative director)

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Boston, Las Vegas, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Miami, Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Reims, Calgary, Lyon, Cuba, Wolverhampton, Jamaica, Helsinki, Niagara Falls, Canada, and Copenhagen..