Kenny Lerner

Kenny Lerner has performed as a co-creator and as the voice
of Peter Cook in FlyingWords Project since 1984.  He has also worked with
other deaf artists, among them, Debbie Rennie with whom he is the
co-author of “Missing Children” and “Willie.” In
performance, he has developed a style of voicing that aims to support the
images of an ASL poem.  To Kenny, the poem is the signed imagery, while
the voice is a vehicle to help hearing audiences to see the images created
on the signing poet’s body. Kenny received a
BA in History at Beloit College in Wisconsin and a MA in Deaf
Education at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.  Kenny
coordinated the First National ASL Literature Conference in 1991.  He
teaches History at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in
Rochester, New York.  Kenny lives in the country with his wife and
two dumb dogs.