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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: How Early Jesuits Pioneered the School Play with Fr. Michael Zampelli, SJ
Description: From the earliest years of the Society of Jesus almost 500 years ago, Jesuits have been involved in the performing arts. Fr. Michael Zampelli, SJ, today’s guest, is a leading scholar on the history of Jesuit performance. Fr. Zampelli teaches theatre history at Fordham University, where he also directs a master’s program in philosophy and society that Jesuit scholastics take in a period of their formation called first studies. Before arriving at Fordham in 2020, Fr. Zampelli taught and directed theatre at Santa Clara University for 22 years.
Host Mike Jordan Laskey asked Fr. Zampelli to give us a historical overview of J...