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      <image:caption>headshot of Bridget Melton: image of woman seated with straight hair, eyeglasses and a teal collared shirt. Photo by Mel Yonzon, Yonzon Photography</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AD in Action - Moving set pieces for easier access during touch tour.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Audience and people with special needs walk and feel the set of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" at Steppenwolf Theatre, before the start of the play, Saturday Oct. 20, 2018. (Abel Uribe)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AD in Action - On stage talking with patrons during touch tour.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Brett Shishkoff, right, and other members of audience walk and feel the set of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", while Bridget Melton, center, describes each object, at Steppenwolf Theatre, before the start of the play, Saturday Oct. 20, 2018. photo by Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AD in Action - On stage describing the set pre-show.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Steppenwolf Theatre's audio describer, Bridget Melton, stands on the set of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", describing the stage, play highlights and each object on stage, before the start of the play, Saturday Oct. 20, 2018. photo by Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>CBS Election 2024 Audio Description live narration team. From left, Allyson Johnson, Joe Amodio, Bridget Melton. They all smile at the camera at dusk outside the CBS Broadcast Center in NYC.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of Bridget outdoors standing in front of the speakers’ stage at the 2018 March to the Polls / Women’s March Chicago. She holds a stenographer’s mask to her mouth as she begins pre-event descriptions to help set the scene for listeners.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AD in Action - Access is priority at Chicago Mayor's Inauguration 2019</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the lobby of the venue, Bridget stands and smiles next to a large poster in white with black symbols for accessibility services. Underneath the symbols of a wheelchair, two hands signing and bold text “OC”, black text reads Ask me about access!.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AD in Action - ASL and OC on stage at inauguration.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The stage had 4 rows of seating across the back, filled with Aldermen/women along with their guests. At the front center was a wooden podium from which Mayor Lightfoot addressed the audience. Above the Mayor is suspended a large screen where closeup video of the podium is projected; along the bottom of the screen are live open captions. At the far left on stage is an ASL interpreter.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AD in Action - Hands-free steno mask for ease of describing.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bridget wearing her stenographer’s mask, held in place over her mouth with a black strap so that it is hands-free.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>CBS Election 2024 Audio Description live narration. Bridget sits at her mic watching a live feed of the network coverage. Above the monitor are memos tacked to the board for the team, reminding them of pronunciations and word choices.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Graphic logo. White background with black and white etching of young girl with wide eyes and tattered clothes, viewed from the waist up. French flag is super imposed behind her. Below girl, navy blue text reads: "Les Miserables".</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image Description: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time production illustration: White background, pen drawing of sky filled with black constellations outlined, below stands boy with arms bent upward wearing red jacket and gray pants. At bottom is black earth, white text reads “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, top left black text reads “Steppenwolf for Young Adults”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: royal purple background, at left gold and white text reads : quote "Exactly what you wish for!" - NBC-TV endquote. Disney "Aladdin" The Hit Broadway Musical. At right, The Genie (Anthony Murphy) sings with left arm raised.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Plum purple background. Center text in lower case and light grey reads "hang". Text underneath "by debbie ticket green". At right, a close up of an open white envelope, a handwritten letter visible beneath the flap. At left top corner, theatre company logo of white oval thought bubble, text reads "REMY BUMPPO think theatre".</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image Description: bright white infinity background, at left is black and white photo cutout of a man dressed in white shirt with a name tag, black tie, black slacks, jumping in air with a grin and tucked under right arm is The Book of Mormon. Across center and right, silver and black text reads “The Book of Mormon”, where second ‘O’ on Mormon is replaced with a silver doorknob and plate.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image Description: The Color Purple production logo, graphic: Background of purple hardwood planks placed horizontal, inset in boards is white wash text "The Color Purple: The Musical”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Background of dark purple, at right a pink light glows behind a woman in profile, her face upturned and singing into a hand held microphone while she raises her other hand in the air. Text at left on a shallow diagonal and berry pink color reads "On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio &amp; Gloria Estefan".</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Sky blue background. At left, pink text over a dusting of white flour reads "Waitress". At right, a close up photo of a waitress smiling and holding up a cherry pie in her hands.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Rachel Marron (Deborah Cox) smiles and belts into a microphone in her raised right hand. Seen from the waist up, she wears a strapless dress of shimmering beaded navy blue against a bright blue background. At the bottom, gold text reads: "The Bodyguard" The Musical.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: The Magician (Brett Schneider) holds his hands up as playing cards fly around him. Text reads: "The Magic Play" by Andrew Hinderacker, Directed by Halena Kays.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: at top, white background with black text reads - "The Humans" a new play by Stephen Karam directed by Joe Mantello. Spanning the bottom is photo of Chinatown buildings lining a street. The central building is collapsing and a pile of debris rises and pigeons fly up from the roof.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Illustration; at left a silhouette of Eiffel Tower in dark blue, at right man and woman with arms around each others waist strolling away. Above text in white reads "An Amrican in Paris" A New Musical. Background of dark blue ground with gradient blue sky studded with stars.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Production logo, white background with blue and red text reads "A Taste of Things to Come" underneath text in blue "A Saucy New Musical from Betty Crocker to Betty Friedan".</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Show logo graphic, white and orange text with slanting curves reads "the cher show", underneath pink text reads "a new musical"; black background.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: At left text in light yellow reads: "Destiny of Desire" by Karen Zacarias, Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela. At right, an arial view of two young women looking up at the camera and smiling with martinis. Victoria Maria del Rio (Ella Saldana North) in a bubblegum pink ballgown and Pilar Esperanza Castillo (Esperanza America) in a satin French maids costume.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Text at left and center reads: "Beautiful" The Carole King Musical. At far right Carole King (Chilina Kennedy) sits facing outward at a black grand piano with a glowing yellow light shining from behind it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: Photograph of Edward Gero as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, dressed in black robe and reading aloud from sheet of paper. Text in white reads "The Originalist".</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image Description: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production graphic. Bright purple light burst, over center sparkling gold text reads “Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The New Musical”. Placed above lower text is a factory silhouette and encompassing upper text is a smoke stack plume.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: In center, white sparkling half face mask against a background of red rose petals. Below the mask, gold filigree text reads: "Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies". At top, gold and white text reads: The Spellbinding Sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera". At bottom, white text reads: The Phantom Returns.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: bottom half covered in snowcapped mountain range with foreground of grassy hill with evergreen trees. top half blue sky with scattered clouds. Text over sky in blue script reads "Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" Book by Lindsay &amp; Crouse".</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: "Hamilton" logo in black on a gold background, silhouette of a 5 pointed star with the top point replaced by silhouette of a man with one arm raised. Text in white across star reads "Hamilton" An American Musical.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: detail photograph of a gold record with the center label partially shown. Center label text reads "Motown" in ombre letters of red, yellow, and green, and underneath in yellow text "The Musical". Background is light blue map of Michigan with roads marked in dark blue and a red star over Detroit.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: show logo: White background with text in bold red all caps "Pretty Woman", black vertical text in between words reads "the musical"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of Bridget and her live remote describing set up. She is seated in a tiny room in front of a two level desk, with dual monitors, a large microphone, and wearing large one-eared headphones.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of Bridget standing outside in front of the speaker stage at the 2018 March to the Polls Women’s March Chicago. She wears a day-glo vest and speaks into a stenographers mask as she in person live describes the event.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of Bridget seated at a table in a booth at the back of Goodman Theatre in Chicago, the audience and stage visible in front of her as she waits to describe a performance, an open script in front of her.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of Bridget seated at a desk in a basement office, with a microphone directly in front of her. She turns to the camera, smiling. On the desk in front of her is her open calling script and a tiny monitor through which she viewed the live performance of “Hamilton” happening in the theatre up above.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of Bridget outdoors standing in front of the speakers’ stage at the 2018 March to the Polls / Women’s March Chicago. She holds a stenographer’s mask to her mouth as she begins pre-event descriptions to help set the scene for listeners.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In the lobby of the venue, Bridget stands and smiles next to a large poster in white with black symbols for accessibility services. Underneath the symbols of a wheelchair, two hands signing and bold text “OC”, black text reads Ask me about access!.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The stage had 4 rows of seating across the back, filled with Aldermen/women along with their guests. At the front center was a wooden podium from which Mayor Lightfoot addressed the audience. Above the Mayor is suspended a large screen where closeup video of the podium is projected; along the bottom of the screen are live open captions. At the far left on stage is an ASL interpreter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Audience and people with special needs walk and feel the set of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" at Steppenwolf Theatre, before the start of the play, Saturday Oct. 20, 2018. (Abel Uribe)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brett Shishkoff, right, and other members of audience walk and feel the set of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", while Bridget Melton, center, describes each object, at Steppenwolf Theatre, before the start of the play, Saturday Oct. 20, 2018. photo by Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Steppenwolf Theatre's audio describer, Bridget Melton, stands on the set of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", describing the stage, play highlights and each object on stage, before the start of the play, Saturday Oct. 20, 2018. photo by Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune.</image:caption>
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