At rise, Bryan is downstage,
lost in thought:
"Am I gay man who happens
to be Deaf? Or a Deaf man
who just happens to be gay?"
So begins Reading Lips, a play about being gay, being deaf and the challenges of being on the cusps of two different cultures.
It is one of ten comedy-dramas Michael Conley has written about his own experiences growing up in the Midwest, living in New York and being a Deaf man and a man.