Native Guard (Part 2)

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018. Directed by Rosalind Ayres Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard January LaVoy as The Poet Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Production Assistant: Amanda Allen Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.