"How do I treat this character, given my sensitivity toward being a woman and then my ire being a black person — trying to balance those two?...And as an artist, really wanting to be generous of spirit with all of the characters so that I treat them with humanity and with understanding — to be empathetic without being sympathetic?"
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On balancing the themes of racial injustice in “New play looks at the lives touched by Emmett Till's death” in MPR News (2019 Feb 12)
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