The notoriety that follows winning an Academy Award has granted Valley native Troy Kotsur more opportunities to not only pick his projects but also represent the deaf community. MORE ⬇️
MESA, AZ — The mainstream exposure and notoriety that follows winning an Academy Award has granted Valley native Troy Kotsur more opportunities to not only pick his projects but also represent the deaf community in a hearing world.
“Now everyone wants to set up meetings with me, writers and directors and producers, they’re chasing me. The tables have turned,” signed Kotsur. Coming soon, Troy is on tap to play a football coach for a deaf school in a new Disney+ Show. On HBO, he’s reported to be on the new season of Curb your Enthusiasm.The Oscar win also allowed Kotsur to bring deaf stories into Hollywood consideration, like William Hoy, the first deaf pro-baseball player widely credited with creating the hand signals still used in the game today, or Erastus Smith, a deaf soldier who fought in the Texas Revolutionary War.
Family friend Bonelle Amann remembers Kotsur as an enthusiastic storyteller that led students to say he “was talking too much on the bus.”
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