In Layne's Words

I started acting in 2021 as a hobby on social media. By 2023, I had won Best Actor International Award for Rain in My Head–a film that also took Best Film and Best Director at the EasterSeals Disability Film Challenge. Audiences saw something. So do I.

 

I was born deaf. A cochlear implant gave me sound. Usher Syndrome gave me news at 14 that in my later years I could eventually go blind. That diagnosis could have ended me. Instead, it taught me to watch. To study the tiney movements of a face. To read what a body says when a voice stays quiet.

 

I don't act despite my deafness. I act because of what it forced me to see.

 

I want to show this wolrd exactly what "human" looks like–on screen, in frame, in the difficult and beautiful in-between.