:CJ Jones: "What Are You . . . Deaf?"

About the Show

In CJ Jones blends his unique style of visual imagery and storytelling. Combining voice, American Sign Language (ASL) and mime, along with recorded music and multi-media projections, Jones paints colorful, riveting pictures of his life experiences, revealing what it was like to grow up in a tough St. Louis neighborhood, in the shadow of his deaf Golden Gloves champion boxer dad and on through the challenges faced during his quest to make it as a comedian and actor in Hollywood.

About the Actor

CJ is known primarily as a comedian, actor, producer, director and motivational keynote speaker. He has traveled with the National Theatre of the Deaf and toured with "Children of a Lesser God" on Broadway. He has also appeared on NBC's Fraiser", the PBS television shows "Sesame Street" and "Rainbow's End", and was the host of "Happy Hands Kids Klub".

In addition, CJ can rightly add educator and advocate to his credits. He heads Hands Across Communication, which works to improve the skills of mainstreamed Deaf students; and he founded Sign World TV to help broaden the opportunities for Deaf people in entertainment. He is currently editing two new documentary film projects called "The Other Side - South Africa" and The Other Side - Japan." His goal is to travel and produce documentary films on the deaf culture around the world.

When he is not pursuing those goals, he takes his one-man show on the road! For more than 25 years, CJ has brought his one-man show to Deaf and hearing schools, events, and universities across the country and around the world. He has also appeared on the Broadway stage, in television, video, and on the big screen. Having experienced what he calls the "double whammy" of being an actor who is both deaf and black, CJ vigorously spreads the message to students, that being different does not mean being less worthwhile.

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