Speakers Forum Presents Brandon Kazen-Maddox
(Mon) May 05, 2025, 11:00am — 12:30pm
The FCC Speakers Forum closes its 2024-2025 season welcomes ASL artist, dancer and activist Brandon Kazen-Maddox on Monday, May 5, 2025 at 11:00am in the OAB Auditorium. Brandon will present SOUL(SIGNS): A celebration of American Sign Language, Heritage, and Belonging. Admission is free and open to the public.
ABOUT BRANDON KAZEN-MADDOX
Brandon Kazen-Maddox (they/them) is an American Sign Language Artist and Grandchild of Deaf Adults (GODA), growing up from birth in a culturally Deaf household. As a third-generation heritage signer, it is Brandon’s passion and responsibility to carry on their generational birthright and lineage of ASL Artistry.
As an ASL Artist, choreographer, filmmaker, dancer, actor, acrobat, and activist, Brandon has spent the last 10 years as a professional ASL interpreter in the mediums of activism, performance, politics, film, television and theater, providing access to, and facilitating communication between the Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and hearing communities. Brandon creates work with and for the Deaf and Disability communities, and highlights and empowers BIPOC and LGBTQAI+ artists, building bridges among people of all backgrounds and abilities.
Brandon was a featured storyteller on the 100th episode of Stories From the Stage on PBS and they were named as one of Gucci’s Chime for Change 22 for ’22. Brandon is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Production Grant, the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation Grant and the New York State Council on the Arts grant.
Brandon’s television credits include guest appearances on High Maintenance and The Good Fight. Their work has been profiled by The New York Times, ABC World News, ABC/Disney, CNN and The PBS NewsHour’s “Brief But Spectacular” series.
Brandon holds an MFA in Dance and New Technology from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a co-founder of Up Until Now Collective, an arts and media company that focuses on developing and producing radically inclusive interdisciplinary work. Brandon is a 2025 PBS / WNET / ALL-ARTS Artist-in-Residence and their special SOUL(SIGNS): Making Music Visible airs April 15, 2025 on multiple platforms.
