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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
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