SIGN - a silent film

'SIGN' is a short film that tells, through vignettes, music, and sign language, the story of a relationship between Ben, a hearing man, and Aaron, who is deaf.

  • Andrew Keenan-Bolger
    Director
    Director/DP: Submissions Only, The Ceiling Fan, Pony Girl. Author: Jack & Louisa: Act One & Act Two (Penguin). TV Film: The Rewrite, Looking, Nurse Jackie, Are You Joking?, The Battery's Down. Broadway: Tuck Everlasting (Jesse Tuck OBC), Newsies (Crutchie OBC), Mary Poppins, Seussical, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol.
  • Adam Wachter
    Writer
    Composer/Orchestrator: PBS' Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, Terrytown, Submissions Only, Off-Bway's Old Jews Telling Jokes
  • Alexandria Wailes
    Director of ASL
    Broadway: Spring Awakening, Big River, Mother Courage.
  • Stanley Bahorek
    Producer
    Broadway/Tour: Amazing Grace, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Big River (DeafWest), February House, Queen of the Mist. TV/Film: Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: CI, Submissions Only
  • Craig Fogel
    Producer
    TV/Film: Don't Shoot the Messenger (creator/star), Celebrity Ghost Stories, I Killed My BFF. Stage: Tribes, Seussical, Damn Yankees
  • Neal Hunter Hyde
    Producer
    Submissions Only, The Ceiling Fan, Disney's Meet the Newsies
  • Andrew Keenan-Bolger
    Producer
    Director/DP: Submissions Only, The Ceiling Fan, Pony Girl. Author: Jack & Louisa: Act One & Act Two (Penguin). TV Film: The Rewrite, Looking, Nurse Jackie, Are You Joking?, The Battery's Down. Broadway: Tuck Everlasting (Jesse Tuck OBC), Newsies (Crutchie OBC), Mary Poppins, Seussical, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol.
  • Madeline Trumble
    Producer
    Broadway/Tour: Newsies (Katherine s/b), Mary Poppins (Mary), Wicked (Elphaba)
  • Adam Wachter
    Producer
    Composer/Orchestrator: PBS' Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, Terrytown, Submissions Only, Off-Bway's Old Jews Telling Jokes
  • John P. McGinty
    Key Cast
    TV/Film: Siobhan, High Maintenance, Closed Caption. Writer: Don't Shoot the Messenger. Stage: Tribes (Billy), Veritas, Movements of the Soul
  • Preston Sadlier
    Key Cast
    TV/Film: High Maintenance, Blue Bloods, Up All Night, The Big C
  • Adam Wachter
    Music
    Composer/Orchestrator: PBS' Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, Terrytown, Submissions Only, Off-Bway's Old Jews Telling Jokes
  • Neal Hunter Hyde
    Assistant Director
    Submissions Only, The Ceiling Fan, Disney's Meet the Newsies
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Music
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 38 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Outfest LA
    Los Angeles
    United States
    July 9, 2016
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival
    Providence
    United States
    August 9, 2016
Director Biography - Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Andrew Keenan-Bolger is an actor, director, author and filmmaker. He is currently starring as “Jesse Tuck” in Tuck Everlasting on Broadway. He created the role of "Crutchie" in the Original Broadway Cast of Newsies (Outer Critics Circle nominee). Other Broadway: Mary Poppins, Seussical, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol. 1st Nat'l Tours: Spelling Bee, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Mary Poppins, Ragtime. Theater: “Jesse Tuck” in Tuck Everlasting at The Alliance Theater (dir. Casey Nicholaw), Ever After at Papermill Playhouse (dir. Kathleen Marshall), Family Furniture at The Flea Theater (dir. Thomas Kail). Film: “Billy Frazier” in The Rewrite starring Hugh Grant, Marci X, Are You Joking? TV: Nurse Jackie (Showtime), Looking (HBO), Naked Brothers Band (Nickelodeon), One Life to Live. B.F.A. from the University of Michigan. His work as a filmmaker has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The Associated Press and New York Magazine. Co-director of the upcoming short films The Ceiling Fan and Sign. Along with collaborator, Kate Wetherhead, he is the co-creator the critically acclaimed webseries, Submissions Only (www.submissionsonly.com) and co-author of the new children’s series Jack & Louisa (Penguin Random House).

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