Meet Our Team
ROBERT DeMAYO - Actor/Co-Creator
Robert is a professional actor, entertainer, educator and ASL consultant. He is a graduate of the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, where he first began performing as a clown in The Silent Alley. He attended the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, NY and toured professionally with Sunshine Too, Cleveland Sign Stage Theatre and the Tony Award winning National Theatre of the Deaf. He starred in many noteworthy NTD productions including One More Spring, Treasure Island, Ophelia, In A Grove, Under Milkwood, Spinning Man: Life of Dylan Thomas, An Italian Straw Hat, Profile of a Deaf Peddler and Shakespeare Unmasked. Robert became the Artistic Director for the New York Deaf Theatre and starred as Hamlet in What If Hamlet Was Deaf? He worked with a team of ASL translators to transliterate Shakespeare's Twelfth Night which lead to further collaboration with the Amaryllis Theatre Company. Robert was the ASL consultant and actor in the feature film Universal Signs and appeared in No Ordinary Hero. Robert was one of the lead subjects in Hilari Scarl's multi-award winning documentary See What I'm Saying. He performed live for the closing ceremonies at the Perspektiva Film Festival in Moscow and appeared in dozens of Q&A's with the film around the world.
Hilari Scarl - Director/Co-Creator
Hilari is an award-winning director/producer who was chosen by Steven Spielberg out of 12,000 filmmakers to appear his television show On The Lot. Her multi-award winning feature See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary received Critics' Pick in the New York Times, distribution with Cinedigm and was broadcast on the Documentary Channel. The film screened in 179 cities in 21 countries, and was shown to employees at DreamWorks, Universal Studios and a special weekend event with Disney. Hilari produced the award-winning dramatic feature No Ordinary Hero with Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin. Before her feature films, Hilari directed/produced 18 short films that have received multiple festival awards and online distribution and wrote/directed several short educational films for GLAD. Hilari has produced shows on CBS, TLC, Court TV and the History Channel and won a Telly Award for her PSA Because on preventing HIV among Deaf women. Hilari has a theater background that includes touring with the National Theater of the Deaf where she met Robert DeMayo. They toured together in An Italian Straw Hat. Her year touring on a bus with 17 Deaf actors inspired her to create work with Deaf actors, and ignited her passion to break down stereotypes in theater, film and television for all minority actors. She hosted a panel discussing accessibility for deaf and blind audiences at the 2015 Sundance Art House Convergence and was awarded the We Do Good Award from Sherry Shepherd. Hilari is a board member of the Alliance of Women Directors.
Carrie Martin - consultant
Carrie works full time as a staff interpreter at Indiana School for the Deaf, as well as freelance interpreting and doing video relay work. She graduated from Ball State University with a degree in Deaf Educational and has taught for over 10 years in various settings including Phoenix Day School for the Deaf and Indiana School for the Deaf before becoming an interpreter. She has been nationally certified through RID since 2007. She currently lives in Indianapolis with her husband Rick and three wonderful boys, Nico, Noah and Chase.
Christine Multra Kraft - consultant
Christine is a Certified Deaf Interpreter and has obtained her Professional certificate with the American Sign Language Teacher's Association. She works as a trainer in the fields of ASL linguistics, ASL teaching and interpreting. Christine is now pursuing her doctorate in Applied Linguistics as Ball State University. She lives near Indianapolis and has a continuing series of family adventures with her husband Roger and their four KODA children.
Additional Credits
Lighting/Director of Photography - Jeff Gatesman
Voice Over - Greg Chun
Voice Recording - Joe Milner/Puget Sound
Editing/Captions - Hilari Scarl
Graphics for DVD design - Christina Romani
Distribution - Meredith Miller, Brian Parsons, Pablo Gonzales for Tugg, Inc.
