Performing Communities: Carpetbag Theater Company

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Table of Contents

About Performing Communities

Carpetbag Theater Company

Case Study: Carpetbag Theater Company

Site visits by Nayo Watkins, November 12-15, 2000, Knoxville, Tennessee

Theater Profile

Field Notes by Nayo Watkins

Interview Summaries

Interview Transcripts

Yawah Awala, parent and Carpetbag community supporter
Dorothy Bennett, board member
Jeffrey Cody, technical director, company member
Linda Hill, company member
Robin Strickland, intern
Starr C. Releford, company member
Zakiyyah Modeste, special projects director, company member
Linda Parris-Bailey, artistic director
Zakiyyah Modeste, special projects director, company member; Linda Parris-Bailey, artistic director; and Nancy Brennan-Strange, storyteller
Donna Shores, Knoxville College faculty member and audience member

Photo Gallery

Play Excerpt: "Nothin' Nice"

Resource List

AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FROM NEW VILLAGE PRESS!
Performing Communities
Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities
By Robert H. Leonard
and Ann Kilkelly
Edited by
Linda Frye Burnham
with an introduction by
Jan Cohen-Cruz
Published by
New Village Press
Paperback: $15.00

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