Tyrone Giordano

Tyrone Giordano (born April 18, 1976, in Tariffville, Hartford, Connecticut) is a deaf American actor, director, producer, translator, and educator of Italian descent, 5′ 9″ (175 cm) tall. Born to deaf parents in a household where American Sign Language was the primary language, he earned a B.A. in English from Gallaudet University in 1999 and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (non-profit administration and theatre arts) from California State University. He is an adjunct professor at Gallaudet and a co-author of the ASL textbook Signing Naturally. His most notable stage role is Huckleberry Finn in the Deaf West Theatre production of Big River, which ran on Broadway in 2003 and earned…