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Today's episode features the fourth installment of "Listening in the Shadows," a five-part series of radio dramas produced as part of our Fall 2020 season. The play is "An Oddity of Fear," written by James Barton, directed by Haley Dawn Parker, and starring Emma Siler as The Host, Danny Flaggert as Father Magnus, Tristan Clark as Father O'Brian, Adam Brown as Father Maxwell, and Robyn Medeiros as Mother Marianne.

Production Credits:

Project Director—Matthew Shifflett 

Project Coordinator—Haley Parker

Production Manager—Jared Spears

Sound Designer and Editor—Kurt Davis

Foley Artist—Fel Macias

The Department of Theatre & Film is grateful for its patrons and corporate sponsors. As a department we are committed to the high quality instruction that our students receive. Investing in the students’ education and these quality productions helps us move toward our common goal of graduating successful, creative adults who are lifelong learners. If you are interested in contributing to these efforts, please visit https://umfoundation.givingfuel.com/theatreandfilm.

Episode three of Stage & Screen continues our special presentation of "Listening in the Shadows," an original, five-part radio drama written and performed by our students as part of our Fall 2020 season. Today's drama is called "Somewhere I Didn't Want To Be," written by Robyn Medeiros, directed by Rie Talley, and starring Anaria Jackson as Beverly, Shelly Berryhill as Hope, and Gabbi Fairey as Mother.

Production Credits:

Project Director—Matthew Shifflett 

Project Coordinator—Haley Dawn Parker

Production Manager—Jared Spears

Sound Designer and Editor—Kurt Davis

Foley Artist—Fel Macias

The Department of Theatre & Film is grateful for its patrons and corporate sponsors. As a department we are committed to the high quality instruction that our students receive. Investing in the students’ education and these quality productions helps us move toward our common goal of graduating successful, creative adults who are lifelong learners. If you are interested in contributing to these efforts, please visit https://umfoundation.givingfuel.com/theatreandfilm.

Episode three of Stage & Screen continues our special presentation of "Listening in the Shadows," an original, five-part radio drama written and performed by our students as part of our Fall 2020 season. Today's drama is called "When No One Was Watching," written by Emma Siler, directed by Megan Longton, and starring Emma Finlay as The Doctor and Lauren Hite as The Detective.

Production Credits:

Project Director—Matthew Shifflett 

Project Coordinator—Haley Parker

Production Manager—Jared Spears

Sound Designer and Editor—Kurt Davis

Foley Artist—Fel Macias

The Department of Theatre & Film is grateful for its patrons and corporate sponsors. As a department we are committed to the high quality instruction that our students receive. Investing in the students’ education and these quality productions helps us move toward our common goal of graduating successful, creative adults who are lifelong learners. If you are interested in contributing to these efforts, please visit https://umfoundation.givingfuel.com/theatreandfilm.

In the second episode of Stage & Screen, we're bringing you part two of "Listening in the Shadows," an original, five-part radio drama written and performed by our students as part of our Fall 2020 season. Today's drama is called "Merry Morning," written by Rie Talley, directed by Hannah Bosworth, and starring Claire Porter as Lily and Morgan Yhap as Rose.

Production Credits:

Project Director—Matthew Shifflett 

Project Coordinator—Haley Parker

Production Manager—Jared Spears

Sound Designer and Editor—Kurt Davis

Foley Artist—Fel Macias

The Department of Theatre & Film is grateful for its patrons and corporate sponsors. As a department we are committed to the high quality instruction that our students receive. Investing in the students’ education and these quality productions helps us move toward our common goal of graduating successful, creative adults who are lifelong learners. If you are interested in contributing to these efforts, please visit https://umfoundation.givingfuel.com/theatreandfilm.

Welcome to the first episode of Stage & Screen! We're kicking off this podcast with a special presentation of our original radio drama "Listening in the Shadows," an original, five-part radio drama written and performed by our students as part of our Fall 2020 season. Today's episode is called "Femme Fatale," written by written by Gabriela Nieto-Hale, directed by Erin Stanphill, and starring Catherine Long as Lucy; Don Waller as Adam; and Leah Blevins as the news anchor.

Production Credits:

Project Director—Matthew Shifflett 

Project Coordinator—Haley Parker

Production Manager—Jared Spears

Sound Designer and Editor—Kurt Davis

Foley Artist—Fel Macias

The Department of Theatre & Film is grateful for its patrons and corporate sponsors. As a department we are committed to the high quality instruction that our students receive. Investing in the students’ education and these quality productions helps us move toward our common goal of graduating successful, creative adults who are lifelong learners. If you are interested in contributing to these efforts, please visit https://umfoundation.givingfuel.com/theatreandfilm.

Ida B. Wells was an investigative journalist, an educator, a suffragist, a truth teller. She was born in Holly Spring, Mississippi in 1862. As an African American woman, she moved to Memphis and then Chicago, as she built a national reputation for her civil rights work. She reported and revealed the horrors of lynching in pamphlets and publications including Southern Horrors and The Red Record. Today, her great-granddaughter, author Michelle Duster, carries on her legacy. She has retraced Wells’ footsteps in the pursuit of justice, including leading efforts in the city of Chicago to dedicate the new Ida B. Wells Drive and to fundraise for a monument to her late great-grandmother in the city’s Bronzeville section.

This week, Duster travels to the University of Mississippi, where scholars and students have organized the Ida B Wells Teach In: A Monument to Justice. We speak with Duster, and two of the organizers, History Professor Garrett Felber and graduate student Beth Kruse. The event was planned in response to an effort to rename the University’s journalism school after Ida B. Wells. It also occurs in the face of a struggle to remove a confederate monument from the heart of campus, all a part of ongoing efforts to seek what they highlight as “reparative justice” for the campus, sparked by Wells’ memory.