Brian Duffy is a Scottish actor, writer and Visual Vernacular artist.
He achieved a BA (Hons) in Video and Film Production from the University of Wolverhampton.
[3] He is credited with co-creating the first sitcom in British Sign Language, called Small World, along with Ace Mahbaz.
Duffy has played in many stage adaptations, including Love's Labour's Lost and 4.48 Psychosis with Deafinitely Theatre, and has worked as a Sign Language consultant on Troilus and Cressida with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He has endorsed the creation of media that utilizes sign language as well as sign-presented TV, as he feels that "hearing people would understand a lot of deaf people much more if they were to see programmes like that [Small World]".