Erika Dickerson-Despenza: Ten Questions
1What was your most memorable theatrical experience as a child?
The Black Baptist Church on the first Sunday of the month (communion Sunday). It’s the way the folks would be possessed by the Holy Spirit. The way bodies innately respond to spirit, to the drum, to the right note on a Hammond B3 organ. It’s still one of the most transformative theatrical experiences I get to witness and engage.
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