Daughters of Lorraine
Created in 2019, the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast was created by Dr. Jordan Ealey and Dr. Leticia Ridley while they were graduate students at the University of Maryland, College Park. Now, both assistant professors, Jordan and Leticia, continue to explore the legacies of Black theatre history, engage in current national conversations around, within, and about Black theatre, review Black theatre productions, and interview Black theatre artists. This podcast centers and privileges the narratives of Black theatremakers, scholars, and audiences while also underscoring the influence of Black theatre on the theatrical landscape.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 47
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Influence and Impact of the Negro Ensemble Company
This episode focuses on the iconic Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). Hosts Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey delve into the NEC’s founding and history, its track record of producing successful Black plays,…
00:50:25 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Staging Black Intimacies
Hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview Kaja Dunn, who is an intimacy professional, director, actor, and scholar. They discuss her journey as a theatre artist, the importance of intimacy coor…
00:57:08 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
What Is Black Theatre?
This episode will discuss the age old questions of what is Black theatre? What is a Black play? How do you know one when you see it? Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey provide an overview of the some of…
00:52:28 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Daughters of Lorraine Season 4 Teaser
This podcast centers and privileges the narratives of Black theatremakers, scholars, and audiences while also underscoring the need for understanding the influence of Black theatre on the American th…
00:00:56 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
I Write What Comes Up in My Body: Robbie McCauley's Theatre
In this episode, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley look at the life and legacy of playwright Robbie McCauley, who recently passed away. They discuss her work as a pioneer of solo performance as a Black…
00:44:26 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
Put Some Respect on Black Theatre with Lisa B. Thompson
In this episode, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview artist/scholar Lisa B. Thompson. They discuss navigating life as a Black feminist artist/scholar, putting some respect on Black theatre, and…
01:03:52 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Writing Detroit: Dominique Morisseau’s Practice of the Possible
Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview award-winning and acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau about her recent Broadway productions of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations an…
01:26:35 |
Wed 10 Aug 2022
Staging Reproductive Freedom in Black Feminist Theatre
This episode is inspired by recent and current events regarding Roe v. Wade and their potential impact on birthing people. We think about the representation of reproductive justice (things such as ab…
01:09:07 |
Wed 03 Aug 2022
Black Women Got Something to Say: A Conversation with Pearl Cleage
In this episode, Jordan and Leticia interview playwright Pearl Cleage. They discuss the way she has navigated her career as a Black feminist/womanist playwright often working in Black spaces; how she…
00:55:51 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
When and Where We Enter: Black Feminist Theatre
In this episode, Leticia and Jordan finally explain what they mean when they say Black feminism, especially in theatre and performance. They engage Lisa M. Anderson’s tenets of Black feminist drama, …
00:45:48 |
Wed 20 Jul 2022
A Soft Place To Land: James Ijames' Fat Ham
This episode focuses on the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner, Fat Ham by James Ijames. Leticia and Jordan discuss the recent production at the Public Theater, its conversation and diversion from …
00:56:33 |
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Working Her Own Tune: Revisiting the Life, Legacy, and Work of Micki Grant
This episode honors the life and work of composer, writer, and performer Micki Grant, who passed away in August 2021. Grant was the first Black woman to write and compose a musical that made it to Br…
00:48:50 |
Wed 06 Jul 2022
Creating a Space for Black Theatre Audiences
This episode is an interview with Addae Moon, the associate artistic director at Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, Georgia. We discuss his journey as a theatre artist; his playwright development lab, Hus…
00:44:21 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
Singin' a Black Girl's Song- Ntozake Shange and "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf"
This episode explores the recent revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, directed and choreographed by Camille A. Brown. Hosts Leticia Ri…
00:45:14 |
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Sharpening Our Oyster Knives: Revisiting "What to Send Up When It Goes Down"
On this special episode of Daughters of Lorraine, hosts Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey sit down with Aleshea Harris and Whitney White, the playwright and director of the powerful, ritualistic play, …
00:47:42 |
Mon 01 Nov 2021
Claiming Our Space with Hana Sharif
For the last episode of season two of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley talk with Hana S. Sharif about her journey to becoming one of the first Black women to b…
00:55:12 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
When Form Meets Content
In this episode, Daughters of Lorraine Podcast hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss how Black playwrights, such as Adrienne Kennedy, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Ntozake Sha…
00:46:07 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
American Theatre's Racial Reckoning with The Black Artist Coalition
The Daughters of Lorraine Podcast hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss the advent of We See You, White American Theatre and situate it within a history of Black theatre artists calling out t…
00:57:21 |
Wed 28 Oct 2020
Shakespeare in Black with Renea Brown
Daughters of Lorraine Podcast hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview actress Renea Brown on the interactions between Black theatre and Shakespeare, as well as her experience as a Black Shake…
01:01:46 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
The Black in Black Musical Theatre
In this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss "What is a Black musical?" using James Baldwin's Amen Corner and Angelica Chéri's Gun and Powder.
00:50:05 |
Wed 23 Sep 2020
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