TL Forsberg is a Deaf

Deaf culture

Deaf culture describes the social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values and shared institutions of communities that are affected by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as a cultural label, the word deaf is often written with a...

 actress and singer. She performs as a singer for the band Kriya, which opened for Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

 and Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

 at Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

s’ Molson Amphitheatre,. Forsberg, along with Bob Hiltermann

Bob Hiltermann

Bob Hiltermann is a German-born Deaf actor and drummer for Beethoven's Nightmare. He starred in the film Children of a Lesser God and portrays Walter Novak on the television drama All My Children. On All My Children, he plays the estranged father of daughter Annie Lavery, the character having been...

, CJ Jones

CJ Jones

CJ Jones is an actor currently residing in Los Angeles. He starred with Bob Hiltermann, TL Forsberg and Robert DeMayo in the critically acclaimed See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary.- External links :* * * on Captionfish...

 and Robert DeMayo

Robert DeMayo

Robert DeMayo is a Connecticut-born actor, educator and ASL consultant currently residing in Philadelphia. He starred with Bob Hiltermann, TL Forsberg and CJ Jones in the critically acclaimed See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary....

, were the subjects profiled in the documentary See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary

See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary

See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary is a 2010 documentary produced and directed by Hilari Scarl. It focuses on the lives of Deaf artists Bob Hiltermann, TL Forsberg, CJ Jones and Robert DeMayo....

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Forsberg played the role of Magician Assistant in a 2009 production of Pippin

Pippin (musical)

Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto...

at the Mark Taper Forum

Mark Taper Forum

The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...

. She also starred in the short film Simone and appeared in From Silence to Sound. Forsberg appeared opposite Sebastian Bach

Sebastian Bach

Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted within Broadway plays, and leads a successful solo career.-Early life:Bach was born Sebastian...

 and Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent

Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...

 on VH1’s reality TV series Supergroup. Her performances were featured on Much Music, MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 (Fuse), The New Music and City TV, Ozzfest

Ozzfest

Ozzfest is an annual festival tour of the United States featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, both of whom also organize each yearly tour with their son Jack Osbourne...

 2006, San Diegos' 105.3 Rock Radio and Hollywoodmusic.tv. She recently performed as Sarah in Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff. An adaptation of Medoff's Tony Award-winning stage play of the same name, the film stars William Hurt and Marlee Matlin as two employees at a school for the deaf:...

 at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California. Other TV/Film: Earth: The Final Conflict, La Femme Nikita, His Bodyguard and Hendrix.

Miss Forsberg resides in Los Angeles.

External links

• TL Forsberg website
• TL Forsberg on IMDB
• Interview of TL Forsberg on her starring in Simone
• See What I'm Saying - HD Music Video from Deaf Entertainers Documentary
• See What I'm Saying - trailer
• TL Forsberg, Deaf singer and star of the movie "Do You See What I'm Saying?" interviewed by Sheena McFeely, the host of the Pearls