Academy award winner Marlee Matlin is hosting a party and performance of Nickelodeon’s ‘Blue’s Clues Live!’ to benefit the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF). This stage presentation benefit will be held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, August 4th. Matlin appeared in ‘Blue’s Clues’ as ‘Marlee the Librarian’ teaching Steve and Blue sign language. Her children’s novel “Caution, Deaf Child Crossing”, will be published by Simon and Schuster in February 2002. CAAF supports infrastructures already in place by funding the pressing needs of organizations serving their respective pediatric HIV/AIDS communities. This year alone, CAAF will grant over $1,250,000 to 55 agencies in 22 states across the country.