Growing up as a Deaf Indian/Canadian, Jaideep Goray always has a passion for acting & performance. He believes you don’t have to be hearing to enjoy the surroundings of dialogue theater – acting is already within you, it is the natural facial expression, body language and rhythm of our being.

His family often encouraged him from childhood in acting and was introduced to theater by his school principal.

As an artist, he has worked with some hearing performers creating accessible performance, recently alongside Christopher Corsini of MDL CHLD and done stage performance under Deaf Spectrum and Buddies in Bad Time Theater, Indian Folk tales in ASL narrator and performed as Indian folk dance culture festival with Mona Jean of ASL Carabert, LA; and has been involved with different theaters for 3 years including Monsieur Richard Firmin as actor for Phantom of the Opera play with the well-known Deaf director Jules Dameron from LA. He joined the artist of Gaitrie Persaud’s experimental project “Spitting the lens” with another two Deaf actors and three hearing actors, Deaf Interpreter for Lillies or the revival of a romantic drama and ASL drag performer at Buddies In Bad Time Theater. He also worked with Buddies.

He has worked as Deaf Interpreter for the artist theater events under Soul Pepper, Sketch, Benthway theater AGO- Picasso, and Deaf Consulate for Deaf Interpreter for “Faith of Act” Factory theater and interpreted for hearing main role actor of ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen and boys and girls’ at Roseneath Theater . He also acted as CP for Sivert Das`s play. Recently, he narrated the ASL story of the life of Lord Ganesh as part Hindu culture festival with the Luminato theater festival.

He has joined a team with Gaitrie Persaud, a founder of Phoenix The Fire – theater hub for QTIBPOC Deaf artists. Jaideep has joined advocates for the QTIBPOC Deaf community with her to build the gap between Deaf actors and hearing actors in the artistic world.