Composer/lyricist, musical director and activist
Both events are open to all campus community members.
Maestra Talk given by Georgia Stitt
Tuesday, April 9 | 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Shattuck 163
For the women and non-binary people who make the music in the musical theater industry
GEORGIA STITT is a composer/lyricist, music director, pianist, and music producer. Her original musicals include Snow Child (commissioned by Arena Stage and directed by Molly Smith); Samantha Spade, Ace Detective (commissioned by TADA Youth Theater and written with Lisa Diana Shapiro, National Youth Theatre 2014 Winner “Outstanding New Musical”); Big Red Sun (NAMT Festival winner in 2010, Harold Arlen Award in 2005, written with playwright John Jiler); The Danger Year (a musical revue); The Water (winner of the 2008 ANMT Search for New Voices in American Musical Theatre and written with Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko); and Mosaic (commissioned for Inner Voices Off-Broadway in 2010 and written with Cheri Steinkellner). She is currently writing The Big Boom (with Hunter Foster) and an oratorio called The Circling Universe that has been developed at Princeton University.
Reflections on Race and Class
Tuesday, April 9 | 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Harper Hall
A discussion on growing up in the segregated south in the 1990s with Georgia Stitt and Dr. Kenny Yarbrough.