This panel of leading theater access professionals highlighted various ways audio description has been provided in performing arts venues, and how each has evolved to provide virtual description services during a pandemic.

Moderator: Joel Snyder, PhD, Founder and Senior Consultant, ACB Audio Description Project, Takoma Park, MD

Panelists:

♦ Brenna Nicely, Education and Engagement Director, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA

♦ Mary Hanks, Audio Describer, Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX

♦ Jess Curtis, Artistic Director, Jess Curtis/Gravity, San Francisco, CA

♦ Alice Shepherd, Artistic Director, Kinetic Light, London, UK