Highlights

Check out some of VOX’s projects, partnerships, grants, and more!

Partnerships

Jitterbugs dancing and Vox interpreting team signing, with captions projected them.

Open Door Theater – VOX’s Test Kitchen for Access

PartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
VOX maximizes ODT as a Training Space for Access Providers and Hub for Accessible Performances: DASL Mentorship Cohort, DeafBlind module filming, Best Practices for Deaf actors, split ALD/AD headsets, and accessible performances (AD, ASL, open captions, preshows and sensory-friendly practices) …
a large group photo of Deaf community, including Deaf DASLs, Deaf and hearing audience, ASL Interpreting team, family and friends standing together in front of the stage at Cutler Majestic Theater.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

Partnerships
Since 2023, VOX has partnered with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company to prioritize accessibility and uplift Deaf, Blind and disabled access providers and audience in its productions and spaces. DASL/ASL team mentorship, AD and Tactile Tours, Open Captioning, and Accessibility Trainings for cast and crew of Shakespeare on the Common (CSC Apprentice …
the ASL team performing in front of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Hatch Shell. All stand with expressions of hope and promise, all gesturing something different with one hand.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra

Partnerships
Since 2023, VOX has partnered with Boston Landmarks Orchestra for their summer concert series at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade with ASL performances by Deaf artists/DASLs and hearing interpreters, capturing the music with visual vernacular, visual-manual orchestration and haptic suits provided by NotImpossible Labs …
Vox at the roundtables for Lenny Zakim Fund Grantee Partner Gathering

The Lenny Zakim Fund

Funders & Professional DevelopmentPartnerships
The Lenny Zakim Fund is a major supporter for VOX: Transformative Leadership Cohort 2025; 2025 and General Operating Support grant. Think Outside the Vox earned a feature article which spotlights the ongoing partnerships with Boston-based theaters and how our grants and recognitions contribute to the impact of our workshops, mentorship and …
Huntington Theater Company

Huntington Theater Company

PartnershipsTheater
VOX has partnered with The Huntington Theater for its 2025-2026 season (second year) to provide ASL-interpreted and Audio Described performances with culturally competent teams …
Entire cast of actors and singers for Macbeth on stage in their white and neutral colored utilitarian and traditional military regalia bowing, waving and smiling. In the center front row, Léon Jerfita, a white male with short silver hair, a short white beard and one blue and brown eye signs “I Love you” with both hands towards the audience next to Director Steve Mahler, a tall white man in a blue suit.

Boston Lyric Opera

EducationPartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
Vox DASLs Kristin Johnson and Sabrina Dennison supported Deaf actor and DASL cohort member Léon Jerfita with accessibility training for the BLO cast and crew. From Director of Macbeth Steve Maler: “Kristin [Johnson], the ASL competency training that you led had more impact with the cast and crew of Macbeth …
large group photo of Massachusetts-based arts professionals (former and current) standing, posing and smiling in front of an Arizona landscape with blue skies, a mountain on the right, cacti and desert plants and trees. Some pose with hands under chin, a peace sign, pointing and laughing. From left to right: from RAW Art Works, Laura Smith-Centeno, Rosario Ubiera-Minaya, Mariah Neuroth. Formerly at WBUR and now in Texas at Report for America, Cristela Guerra. Arts Connect International mica rose. Double Edge Theatre Travis Coe. Think Outside the Vox Christopher and Aimee Robinson, Ingrid O’Dell, Maria Hendricks, Kristin Johnson, Sam Gould, Olivia Reinebach, and ASL/English interpreters Shonnese Devon Grant and Rae Heller.

National Arts Strategies

Funders & Professional DevelopmentPartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
Vox was thrilled to participate in NAS’ The Project, an 18-month professional development program for arts organizations committed to systems change. We consulted on accessibility for the 4-day convening in Arizona and delivered purple power through roundtable conversations, storyboarding and storytelling. We have also partnered with NAS to deliver accessibility …
Framing Accessibility, All Access Calendar Webinar. Improve your accessibility and outreach with this tool created for and by Deaf, Blind, Disabled and Neurodiverse communities.

ArtsBoston All Access Calendar Launched

EducationPartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
ArtsBoston Calendar is live! Webinar recording available here. Think Outside the Vox partnered with ArtsBoston to respond to a call from the Deaf, Blind, DeafBlind, Neurodiverse and greater disability communities to create and develop the ArtsBoston All Access Calendar, a free resources that allows users to search arts events and …
Dr. Mona Minkara in a hijab with white cane on the floor next to her converses with a group of children at the ask me fair

Ask Me Fair

EducationPartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
The Ask Me Fair is a Living Library type of event, which was a Joint Venture with Open Door Theater, The Sargent Memorial Library and Danny’s Place. Children are invited to ask questions, listen to, and converse with awesome presenters from a wide range of backgrounds, who are happy to …