Visual-Gestural Communication

5 August 1958

Willy Conley, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a retired professor and former chairperson of the Theatre Arts department at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Conley, who has an MA in Playwriting from Boston University and an MFA in Theatre from Towson University, is an award-winning playwright whose work has appeared in numerous publications and productions internationally. He is the author of The World of White Water – Poems, Listening Through the Bone – Collected Poems, The Deaf Heart – a Novel, Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays, Broken Spokes, Visual-Gestural Communication – a Workbook in Nonverbal Expression and Reception, and Broken Spokes.