Author: Sophie Woolley

Listen to my first podcast here. 

There is a transcript available.

 

I met Phumeza Tisile recently in a Cape Town township called Khayelitsha. She went deaf two years ago and her story is something else. Read the interview I did with her here. 

Thanks to The Limping Chicken web magazine for making a donation to MSF. 

 

Read the article here. 

“I like being part computer, it feels good, and this liminal state, this transitional period from deaf to hearing, is an adventure.”

Read more on this new website featuring my personal and journalistic accounts of recent months.

My amazing sister Cathy, is director of Bloomsbury Festival. The six day FREE arts extravaganza runs from 15 until 20 October in London WC1. Check out the action packed events calender or join the mailing list.

Over six days 200 free events will showcase an eclectic programme of pioneering art, music, dance and literature, while also giving a voice and new skills to diverse young, older and disabled people.

Bloomsbury Festival is a charity, find out how you can donate by clicking here

My radio 4 sitcom Absolutely Delish: Grazing (starring Sally Phillips) is now available on iTunes.

Here’s the sixth epsiode of Deaf Faker.

Charlotte Loud tries to seduce a Deaf actor via sign language.

Not seen previous epsiodes? Catch up here

Credits: Written and performed by Sophie Woolley, directed and produced by Caroline O’ Neill and Mark Williams and starring Matthew Gurney as himself.

I play ‘Ellen’ in a BBC Radio 3 play by Amanda Dalton, which airs on Sunday 28 October. Not so much a vampire victim really, more of a heroine in Dalton’s wonderful interpretation of classic film, Nosferatu. The adaptation is called  The  Midnight Cry of the Deathbird. Here’s the listening link and blurb.