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b'Alexandria Wailes is an accomplished actor, choreographer and dancer who just this last season appeared on Broadway in the acclaimed revival of Ntozake Shange\\u2019s seminal play \\u201cFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.\\u201d The production, directed by UNCSA alum Camille A. Brown, held one notable surprise, the use of American Sign Language, since Alexandria, who is Deaf, played the Lady in Purple, a part that had not originally been written as a Deaf character. This was not her first time on Broadway. She understudied Marlee Matlin in the revival of \\u201cSpring Awakening,\\u201d and then she went on in the part for the run\\u2019s final month. Before that, she acted in the legendary Deaf West Theatre production of \\u201cBig River,\\u201d which after its Broadway run toured throughout the U.S. and even played not once but twice in Tokyo.She\\u2019s acted in some of the country\\u2019s most respected regional theaters, from Minneapolis\\u2019s Mixed Blood Theater to Los Angeles\\u2019s Kirk Douglas Theater, and she has also been featured in several popular TV shows, including \\u201cNurse Jackie\\u201d and \\u201cLaw and Order: Criminal Intent.\\u201d\\xa0She is a member of Heidi Latsky Dance Company, and she is the co-founder of BHO5, a company whose mission is, \\u201cto usher in a new era of authentic artistic representation of American deaf people.\\u201d In this episode, Alexandria describes how she crafted her remarkable career as a multidisciplinary performer and explains the work that must still be done to ensure that not only Deaf but also hearing performers can feel fully informed and bolstered in work that features Deaf artists and/or subjects.\\xa0http://www.alexandriawailes.com/home.htmlhttps://www.bho5.org/'