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Freedom Summer is a true story about a group of civil rights workers who assemble in Meridian
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Mississippi in 1964. And they've come together to fight for the right to vote. But in the meantime
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they are faced with the realities of the Jim Crow self. Through these hardships, they sort
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discover what exactly it means to be an activist and the cost of rewriting history
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Seeing the show come together is absolutely wild. Everyone always says, you know, theater is a living art
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It doesn't exist on camera. It doesn't exist on a canvas. So as much as you feel like a writer when you're sitting behind your computer and writing
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dialogue or playing the piano, that's not theater. Theater is doing it in front of people and seeing it live
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I think there's something really, really special about getting to be in a brand new show while you're still in school
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You know, one day you show up to rehearsal and one scene is there and then the next day it's not
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That just a really cool experience and it lessons that I take with me throughout my career I think additionally something we enjoyed exploring with Freedom Summer is how much history swallows up the normal people and the minutia of situations
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You know, there are names we all know in civil rights, but there's a hell of a lot of names that we don't
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It would never have occurred to me to write a musical on this topic
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And I just love it that it's ahead of us now, because like everyone who's been through that part of the 60s
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I think I've carried this around, everyone does, kind of in their own personal way
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But it's mainly a lived and felt experience. And that has to be recreated by artists
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And I can't wait to see it for that reason
