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Podcast: MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast
Episode: Episode #13: Willie E. Jones III on Shakespeare, The Classics, and Theatre Education
Description: Willie Jones joins the podcast for an earnest discussion on the importance of the classics in the theatre, in education, and in the pursuit of truth and knowledge.Willie E. Jones III is an actor, director, producer, and playwright who is the founding Actor/Manager of the Jones Classical Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois. He is the Artistic Director of the Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, a Co-Founder of the Minnesota Black Theatre Circle, was the Executive Producer of the Blackness Is… Theatre Arts Festival, and also serves on the Board of Yellow Tree Theatre in Osseo, Minnesota....