Episode 24 - Stephanie McKee

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Stephanie is a performer, choreographer, educator, facilitator, and cultural organizer born in Picayune, MS, and raised in New Orleans. Stephanie speaks about: being from singers and medicine people; growing through self-doubt imposed by the public school system;  creating life-long friendships in art making spaces; her determination to make and hold space for Black creatives; and being part of a second generation of connection and partnerships between Junebug Productions and Urban Bush Women. 

I first met Stephanie in 1992, when she worked with Tommye Myrick’s, “Voices In The Dark” theatre company.  Most recently I was beneficiary of Stephanie's hosting when Junebug bought me in recently to work as dramamtuge for "Vessels" Created by Rebecca Mwase and co-shaped by Ron Ragin ("Vessels" opens on 3/26/20).

tephanie is the Artistic Director for Junebug Productions Inc., the organizational successor to the Free Southern Theater (FST), which was formed in 1963 to be a cultural arm of the Civil Rights Movement and was a major influence in the Black Theater Movement. Stephanie is a member of Alternate ROOTS, a New Voices emerging leaders alumnus and has been a faculty member and facilitator for the Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute for over 10 years. As an artist, Stephanie believes art is for everyone and is deeply committed to creating art that substantively reflects disparate conditions, and leveraging that art as a powerful tool for change.

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