Outlook Nebraska Brings Audio Description Service to Local Stages

Outlook Nebraska (outlooknebraska.org/theater), a charitable organization dedicated to positively impacting everyone who is blind or visually impaired, is partnering with multiple live-performance theaters in Omaha to offer audio description services at select shows for blind and visually impaired theatergoers.

The audio description program allows individuals who are visually impaired to more fully enjoy the thrills of a live theater performance through a verbal description of the stage production during gaps in dialogue. Over 200 theaters nationwide offer audio description as a service to these theater patrons.

Outlook Nebraska recognizes that many of its constituents are missing out on the enriching theater experiences available in the Omaha community. Outlook Nebraska is now working to reverse this trend with a new systemic audio description program, which kicked off this fall.

Thanks to grant funding from The Enrichment Foundation and the Gary and Mary West Foundation, Outlook Nebraska was able to research audio description services, recruit and train seven audio describers, purchase audio description equipment and collaborate with local theater organizations, including Omaha Performing Arts, to offer the service free of charge to visually impaired theatergoers at select performances.

Audio description is scheduled for select performances throughout the 2016-17 season at The Rose Theater, Orpheum Theater, Omaha Community Playhouse, Blue Barn Theater, Film Streams and Circle Theater.

For more information on the audio description services now available in Omaha, and a list of all audio described performances, visit outlooknebraska.org/theater.


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