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Paris – spring 1944. The City of Light has been under the dark shadow of German occupation for four long years. Hundreds of thousands had left Paris in June of 1940 when Germany invaded and defeated the French
April 5/6/7 2024 – A dramatic reading with music and images ArtLitLab Madison, WI Mother Courage – Maggie Schenk Narrator – David Simmons Musician – Diana Wheeler Photos by Hans Adler Special thanks to UW professors Nam Kim and Marc
The Morrison Case A short play by Albert Maltz, 1952 Introduction by Patrick Chura, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Akron Cast: Peter Morrison – Tom Kastle Captain – Alex Hancock Mr. Butler – Daniel Graupner Mr. Hodges & Mr.
Cast Melvin Hinton as the voice of Vincent Maggie Schenk as the narrator Diana Wheeler, violin for the live reading, Daniel Plane cello for the recording David Simmons – producer/director/script writer Graphic design by Krissy Pohold April 13, 2023 ArtLitLab,
Cast Maggie Schenk – narrator and voice of Sophie Scholl Daniel Graupner – narrator Daniel Plane – cello David Simmons – producer/director Marc Silberman & Hans Adler – advisors/dramaturgs Graphic design by Krissy Pohold Thanks also to Stephani Richards-Wilson for
Click this link to watch the reading and images: http://vimeo.com/user184187732/ Thanks to the many individual donors who helped make this reading possible July 29, 2022, at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, and to the overflow crowd who came out
Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me Performed at The Dark Horse Artbar, Madison WI. April 7, 2022 Singer/storyteller Tom Kastle David Simmons, Producer/Director Script by David Simmons and Tom Kastle, Copyright 2022 by Fermat’s Last Theater Co. Special
Video from this show is being reworked … please be patient. Performed at The Crucible, Madison WI, September 30, 2021 LAUGHIN’ TO KEEP FROM CRYIN’: Oh! Those Blues of Langston Hughes Created and curated by Quanda Johnson Very few poets
The live reading of She Fights for the Motherland took place on October 14, 2021 at the Central Madison Public Library. A Q&A after the reading was led by UW-Madison History Department professors Francine Hirsch and Kathryn Ciancia, both
Photo: Elsa Dorfman – Wikimedia Commons Video for this show is being reworked … please be patient. Rock Steady: The Revolutionary Soul of Nikki Giovanni – 2021 Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson On April 8, 2021, four talented