Creative Caption Design with Daniel Hughes and Ciaran Stewart

Daniel Hughes is a filmmaker, video designer and caption designer working in a variety of contexts across visual art, theatre and film. His recent caption design projects include Pied Piper, a beatbox musical by the Battersea Arts Centre Beatbox Academy, presented in 2024 at the Southbank Centre, London; Buttercup, a film by Sarah Browne, presented in 2024 at Sirius Arts Centre, Cork.

Daniel is passionate about working with Deaf creatives in integrating captioning within the creative process and thinking about it in a way that goes beyond a descriptive access experience, finding ways that it can become sensory, intuitive and dynamic, offering a more directly accessible experience.

Ciaran Stewart trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on the BA Performance in British Sign Language and English degree programme back in 2015 and has worked in a wide range of theatre productions working with theatres such as Headlong, Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres.

He’s worked as a Caption Consultant for the past 5 years, working mostly with Collective Text in Glasgow, where he also work as Admin Support. He’s worked on films such as Barrunto, BigenTV, Growing Up Brent just to name a few. He’s worked with Daniel Hughes over the years including “The Assumption” which was a staged show.