{"id":160342,"date":"2026-04-08T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:56:06","slug":"carnegie-mellon-university-is-receiving-a-grant-for-accessible-shakespeare-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160342\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon University is receiving a grant for accessible Shakespeare project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carnegie Mellon University is receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support a theater project expanding access to the arts for deaf communities. <\/p>\n<p>The grant, awarded through the NEA\u2019s Grants for Arts Projects program, will support the translation of selected works of William Shakespeare into American Sign Language (ASL) and the creation of a comprehensive video series for use in theater productions nationwide. <\/p>\n<p>The project will bring together deaf and hearing theater artists and scholars to translate up to 15 Shakespearean texts into ASL. Collaborators will produce both a foundational \u201cneutral\u201d translation and an artistic, interpretive version. The resulting video series will serve as a national resource for theater artists with and without disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon University is receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7933,73,75,74,34341],"class_list":{"0":"post-160342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-carnegie-mellon-university","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-shakespeare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}