Linda Gammel and Sandra Menefee Taylor talk to Peter Shea about their collaborative project Roots of Renewal, taking oral histories dealing with citywide food systems, and its manifestation in the WARM Gallery.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gammel, Linda; Taylor, Sandra Menefee
Created:
2013-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about the children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, and how her books have been regarded. He also deals with Ursula Nordstrom, and his general approach to writing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2009-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about his forthcoming book on Madeleine, L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other children's fantasy novels, his recently published Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and his work on the illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2012-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about her play, The Laramie Project, predicated upon the tenth anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, and the oral history research that went into it.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2010-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about some ethical questions that arise when writing plays based on real events using oral history interviews with real people.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2008-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fondakowski compares her plays, including Casa Cushman and The People's Temple, talking about some differing approaches to oral history research, and offers her thoughts on the beginning of writing her play Spill.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2011-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski, playwright, talks to Peter Shea about her upcoming work on a TV miniseries based on the research that went into her prior play, The People's Temple, about the Jonestown massacre. She stresses faithfulness to history, the public domain, and interviews, and her direct involvement as screenwriter. She considers how to work with t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2014-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.