Adam Stoyanov, born in 1994, has been deaf since birth. He uses Polish Sign Language (PJM) on a daily basis, which is his native (first) language. His entire family is deaf – from his grandparents and uncles to his siblings. He is known for his exceptionally developed artistic signing, as well as for his signed poetry and picture signing (visual vernacular). Among other achievements, he won first place and the audience award at the Sign Poetry Festival in Kraków (2014).
He is currently an actor in the play A Gesture (directed by Wojtek Ziemilski, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw) and in Opera for the Deaf (directed by Wojtek Zrałek-Kossakowski, Studio Theatre in Warsaw; of which Stoyanov is also the author of the libretto in PJM), in monodrama In Translation (directed by Wojtek Ziemilski, Wrocław Contemporary Theatre), in Love Ritual (directed by Daniel Kotowski, Komuna Theatre in Warsaw) and in Ep (directed by Kuba Krzewiński and Agnieszka Jakimiak, TR Warszawa).
He is involved in cultural activities at the Mazovian Branch of the Polish Association of the Deaf (PZG), where, among other things, he has published 26 works of sign language poetry, translated Polish literature with the support of a co-interpreter, performed acting and mime scenes and published films in PJM on the PZG fan page. He has also collaborated with other organizations, such as the Culture Without Barriers Foundation, with which he published his own fairy tales in PJM, and the Academy of Young Deaf Foundation, which published six of his films featuring poetry, stories and visual sign language as part of the TURKUS Festival online. Since 2018, he has also been a member of the Deaf Percussion Orchestra organized by the Automatophone Foundation.