“Why church? Why theatre?,” ft Rev. Dr. Shannon Craigo-Snell

Shannon Craigo-Snell joins Robert to explore Christianity, theatremaking, and the great American project through the lenses of performance, practice, and doubleness.

Shannon Craigo-Snell is a theologian and a faculty member at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She previously taught at Yale University and is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church, and she’s the author of The Empty Church: Theater, Theology and Bodily Hope.

📚 References:

The Empty Church: Theatre, Theology and Bodily Hope by Rev. Dr. Shannon Craigo-Snell

Poetry and the Black Panther Party: from Ancestral Memory, Morphogenetic Fields to Hip Hop by Dr. Regina Jennings

Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865-1930 by George C. Wright

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Kathryn de la Rosa and Elizabeth Greenfield

Audio Engineer: Lindsay Burdsall

Edited by Paul Doyle

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise