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Mary Beth Miller Deaf Author/Actress
Mary Beth Miller is an exciting author and actress. Miller is also a stand-up comedian as well as an American Sign Language (ASL) storyteller. She has been a co-author of many books like Handtalk, Handtalk Zoo, Handtalk School, and Handtalk Birthday. Her Books can be found on google books, or amazon.com. Her books have also been mention on Deaf Performing Artists Network D-pan, where she was a co-athor of a book called "Hands Talk". DPANs website has photos of Mary Beth Miller on a post card titled "Lets Escape"see saw. She is also mentioned on the Deaf culture online website as being a valued Deaf culture performing artist along with many others. She is in many performances such as "Language Landscape:A Presentation of Deaf Performing Art". She was also on a performance called "Live at SMI" where she was described as an internationally know actress, author, performer and comedian [Communications]. In fact, live at SMI is actually part of the curriculum at the Seattle Central Community College seattle central. Deaf Media has also included her name in a broad list of other performers to thank them for their contributions to the Deaf community. Mary Beth Miller has also had her own comedy show performed in ASL, it was called The Mary Beth Miller Show which was sponsored by The Holyoke Community College Deaf ASL Club DBSocial. Miller also performed for the New York Deaf Theatre NYDT, where she performed A Play Of 1000 Words in 1980 at the Chelsea Theatre Center(NYDT). Mary Beth Miller was also mentioned in the obituary for Daniel Schein who was a professor at Gaullaudet University, he came up with a very intensive course on ASL, which was taught in some of the classes by Mary Beth Miller. She has also done a stand up for the university which was described in the Gallaudet University paper "One of her more popular routines involves her “live” hands that fight each other in ASL. It is really masterful when she, the right hand, and the left hand are in turmoil. For example, the left hand protests that the right hand is being used most of the time and the left hand thinks this is not fair, so it won’t cooperate with the right hand. This gives Mary Beth some trouble and she scolds the hands for their silly behavior. The skit goes on and on and it really makes the audience laugh very hard since they know the use of both hands is important in ASL."[Press].Mary Beth Miller is widely known for her stand-up on the SMI videos. SMI for those who don't know is Sign Media,Inc. SMI is a series of informational and entertaining video tapes with several different deaf actors. Miller's role in "live at SMI" is talked about and described in the book "Deaf American Literature" in vivid detal much like the GU Press story. The latest update of Mary Beth Miller is an unfortunate one, she is in declining health in her NY Home.