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Jay Alan Zimmerman’s Incredibly Deaf Musical
Staged Workshop Reading
July 2026
Presented by IRT Theatre
New York City
Creative Captioning
Jay Alan Zimmerman’s Incredibly Deaf Musical tells the heartwarming, bootyshaking, true story of a composer who battled deafness… by creating a musical. Staged in an immersive world where Jay is trapped between a piano he can’t hear and a growing caption screen he wants to avoid, Jay must now also perform the show… while actually Deaf!
Image: White graphic on a black background of an illustrated grand piano, seen from above. Text is shown in the body of the piano: “JAY ALAN ZIMMERMAN’S INCREDIBLY DEAF MUSICAL” in various Times Square-like fonts.
Image: Two actors on a black box stage perform behind music stands. The actor on the right is seated, the actor on the left, Jay, is a deaf actor in his late 40’s, wearing a grey blazer and holding his ears, wide-eyed in pain. Behind him a white square outline caption box is projected on a black brick wall. The words in white, “I. Am–” are interrupted by large, bold, green text, “[[[SCREWED!]]]”