The Cast and Crew...

Leslie Warren is currently the Interpreting Coordinator at John Dempsey Hospital University of Connecticut Health Center. She is the former Interpreter Coordinator for Family Services Woodfield where her duties included supervision and training of staff interpreters and employees of Connecticut State Hospitals.

She was a classroom teacher, Music, Movement, and Drama instructor and former Sign Language Coordinator at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Connecticut.

She is employed as a Staff Interpreter at the Connecticut Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired; has worked as an Instructor in ASL, Interpreting, and Artistic Sign Language at Northwestern Connecticut Community Technical College; and has served as a consultant to numerous Sign Language and Interpreter Training Programs throughout Connecticut, the United States and Canada.

She is currently a board member of The Connecticut Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf; a local test administrator for the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) Evaluation Testing System; consultant for the Connecticut Mentorship Program and a consultant for the Connecticut Hospital Associations.

Leslie has received numerous awards for her work in theater arts for deaf including The Kennedy Smith Award presented by Very Special Arts, National, in Washington D.C. and CRID's "Interpreter of the Year" award. Leslie was the recipient of RID's Distinguished Service Award at the organization's national conference held in Orlando, Florida during the summer of 2001.

Leslie is also founder, director, writer, and choreographer for the CRIDDERS (acronym, CRID-CT. Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf) - a nationally recognized Sign Language Performing Group that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for organizations serving deaf citizens and other special needs groups. The members of the CRIDDERS have now "volunteered" their time and talents since 1978.