Candy Simmons, producer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about performing her one-woman show, Expiration Date, at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about her development as an actor, leaving her family home in Alabama, trying to make it in New York, and settling in Minneapolis as an independent producer. She discusses her passion for s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Simmons, Candy
Created:
2013-08-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Matthew Trumbull, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children, a one-man show about his father, which he performed at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. He talks about his development as an actor and the circumstances which gradually convinced him to undertake a one-man show: notably, his father's death and do...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Trumbull, Matthew
Created:
2013-08-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, takes up where he left off, at his struggle with recurrent pain during acting. He talks to Peter Shea about dynamics of race and prejudice among his fellow actors, his fascination with Constantin Stanislavski's "An Actor Prepares" and John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". He discusses commonalities of playwrigh...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-08-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Beth Stein is a former adjunct theology teacher at St. Catherine’s University, and an activist involved with the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about experiences in her life which motivate her to work for social justice, inclusion, and gender equity in the catholic church. She talks about ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stein, Mary Beth
Created:
2013-08-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Robin Gillette, Executive Director of the Minnesota Fringe Festival since 2006, speaks retrospectively to Peter Shea about the success of the 2013 Fringe, the logistics of the festival, a participant's process of creating a Fringe production, and her decision to end her tenure as Executive Director.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gillette, Robin
Created:
2013-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Petersen, Kristian
Created:
2013-09-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, continues, drawing connections between Shakespeare, Stanislavski, the Bible, and childhood experiences. He considers how these insights helped him to prepare as an actor and to teach a young girl to prepare. He talks about dynamics of race and casting, and his preparation for two challenging roles: the charac...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages, talks to Peter Shea about the course of her academic career from Russian literature to gender studies to visual imagery. She mentions her projects on Vladimir Putin's self-presentation and on Soviet posters, continuing to discuss wartime Soviet posters: their placement, their choic...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena
Created:
2013-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Site & Incitement and the Bat of Minerva. A discussion with Peter Shea and Danny Robinson Clark, moderated by Ann Waltner.Peter Shea, Danny Clark and Ann Waltner discuss Peter's interview with Danny Robinson Clark — an actor, sort of retired, where he thinks about his craft. The discussion will range freely, from the substance of the interview...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson; Shea, Peter; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-11-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson, directors of the Women's Art Institute, discuss their reasons for founding the Insitute in 1999 at MCAD, recalling an atmosphere increasingly hostile towards women students after the women's movements of the 60s-70s and their belief in the same-sex classroom as an environment where women students' "perceptu...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Erickson, Elizabeth; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2014-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jeremy Iggers, journalist and executive director of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, talks to Peter Shea about his career in journalism, as well as his transition from the Star Tribune to the non-profit sector. He discusses the shortfalls of today's journalism, and the mission of the Twin Cities Daily Planet to bring light to underreported storie...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Iggers, Jeremy
Created:
2014-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark talks to Peter Shea about his wife, Mattie. He recalls memories of her: their childhood experiences in Mississippi, her personality and determination, her family and upbringing, her love of reading, and her labor in cotton fields. He remembers her exposure to the "southern argot" and recalls her gifted storytelling, beginnin...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2014-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Tim Hoogland, historian, talks to Peter Shea about his work as the coordinator of History Day. He discusses the challenges involved with students learning about history, lack of teacher resources, and the role of the Minnesota Historical Society in solving these conflicts. He talks about how History Day is used as a vechicle for underprivileged ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoogland, Tim
Created:
2014-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joe Amato, author and teacher, talks to Peter Shea about how his interest in history and culture developed, his experiences in Europe and Canada, and his research on the decline of regions. He discusses how his family and his upbringing affected his career and life. He also reads from a poem titled "A Trip to a Detroit Cemetary." He also discuss...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Amato, Joe
Created:
2014-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chris Citron talks to Peter Shea about The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction, at the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus College, a retrospective exhibit of artwork by her grandmother, leading abstract expressionist Minna Citron. She talks about her involvement with Minna Citron's art, growing up in an artistic milieu and acting as he...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Citron, Chris
Created:
2014-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rhoda Gilman, retired historian, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her parents on her personal convictions, her work in social justice and human rights, and role as an activist for women historians. She also discuesses the surprises she's come across throughout her career, most of which stem from her research of Buddhism. She talks abou...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilman, Rhoda
Created:
2014-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jack Zipes, Professor of German, talks to Peter Shea about his experiences living in Germany. He discusses his how these experiences shaped the way he views and understands the United States, as well as his Jewish heritage. Zipes talks about his varied interests in literature and language, and how these passions have converged throughout his aca...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Zipes, Jack
Created:
2014-02-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andy Wilhide is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, researching the histories of migration and refugee resettlement in Minnesota and focusing on the Somali community and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy
Created:
2014-03-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race, taught in the Minneapolis public schools for 25 years and blogs on the TC Daily Planet. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about her writing and how she came to write about racism and her students. She explains how her primary pursuits in later life have moved away from direct i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Landsman, Julie
Created:
2014-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.