~~Audio Description in the Performing Arts:This panel of leading theater access professionals highlighted various ways audio description has been provided in performing arts venues, and how each has evolved to provide virtual description services during a pandemic.Moderator: Joel Snyder, PhD, Founder and Senior Consultant, ACB Audio Description Project, Takoma Park, MDPanelists:♦ Brenna Nicely, Education and Engagement Director, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA♦ Mary Hanks, Audio Describer, Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX♦ Jess Curtis, Artistic Director, Jess Curtis/Gravity, San Francisco, CA♦ Alice Shepherd, Artistic Director, Kinetic Light, London, UK

• Recorded during the 2021 ACB National Convention on July 19 2021~~