“I’m baffled by the hate,” Jared Allebest, a deaf civil rights attorney, told The Post. Many Post readers and others in the deaf community came out in force to support Wann and condemn the outrage he faced. Wipe your own white tears because we are not going to do it for you.” “There are some people justifying why they don’t support him through the lens of racial identity politics,” said Jared Allebest, a deaf civil rights attorney. Stop taking all the jobs when we have black interpreters that are the better fit. “This is not discrimination,” Sutton signed on the video that amassed over 57,000 views.
In a viral TikTok video, deaf performer Raven Sutton blasted Wann for his decision to sue the theatre group. Let black people get their opportunities to get a spotlight.” “You disgusted me,” Randy Spann, host of the deaf talk show The Real Talk with Randy, said in video response to Wann’s lawsuit. “Stop taking all the jobs when we have black interpreters that are the better fit…,” said deaf performer Raven Sutton. Wann’s decision to take the case up in court was met with online backlash from the deaf community. “Keith Wann, though an amazing ASL performer, is not a black person and therefore should not be representing Lion King,” Shelly Guy, the director of ASL for “The Lion King,” told Lisa Carling, the director of the Theatre Development Fund’s accessibility programs, in an email. 8 after he and another interpreter, Christina Mosleh, were told to back out of the production in April so they could be replaced by black sign-language experts, according to the suit and emails obtained by The Post. “I look forward to the review of the process that will come from this to hopefully benefit the interpreting profession.” Keith Wann and the Theatre Development Fund resolved the dispute outside of court just two weeks after Wann filed his lawsuit. “The matter between myself and TDF has been resolved and both parties are satisfied with the discussions that ensued,” Wann wrote in a social media post announcing the settlement.
Keith Wann and the Theatre Development Fund - a nonprofit that provides ASL interpreters at Broadway shows - resolved the dispute outside of court just two weeks after Wann filed his lawsuit and The Post published a front-page report. The white sign-language interpreter booted from Broadway’s “Lion King” for his skin color quietly settled his federal discrimination case against the theatre company that fired him, The Post has learned.
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