Amy Cheskin
About Amy Cheskin
Amy Cheskin is an experienced British Sign Language (BSL) Performance Interpreter. Graduating with a BSc in Deaf Studies (2008), they have gone on to study and develop their linguistic nuance and style of theatre interpreting. Amy is passionate about developing work that is open to all audiences and actively creating space for deaf communities to showcase talent within mainstream spaces.
Theatre credits include:
Purposeless Movements (Birds of Paradise & Tramway: Tour 2016 & Edinburgh International Festival); Thank You Very Much (Claire Cunningham & NTS: Manchester International Festival & Glasgow); Pride & Prejudice Sort of* (Blood of The Young & Tron Theatre); This Girl (Stellar Quinnes & Imaginate: Edinburgh) The Mistress Contract (Tron); In Burrows (Andy Edwards: Tron & The Roxy Edinburgh); Spring Awakening (Royal Conservatoire Scotland) Blanche & Butch (Birds of Paradise: Tour, 2017); Chess (Royal Conservatoire Scotland); Burgerz (Travis Alabanza: CCA); Brexit means Brexit (Farah Salah: Dancebase); Stud (Ivor MacAskill, Buzzcut: CCA)