Stage Hands documents Tulsa theater company Grace Ann Productions' 2006 staging of the musical Oliver!, which employed deaf and hearing actors simultaneously performing in English and ASL (American Sign Language). Using photography to record the ineffable process of an emerging show is always a challenge—pictures can only capture the sounds of theater indirectly. The fact that this production was performed using a visual language gave me the opportunity to document speaking and singing through sight. Through photographing the rehearsals, I wanted to capture the energy that went into developing a show that was both a typical amateur theater production and an unusual collaboration between two communities on one stage.