Liz Johnston-Dupre as the initial possessed woman, crawls around the floor like a writhing, twerking Linda Blair. A scene of exposition has never been so fun to watch.
Shows about mental health open on New Orleans stages at Le Petit, New Marigny theaters
Set in the fictional (???) hospital called “Orleans Parish Psych Ward for Poor Mutherfuckers,” (and I’d like to place a bid on the neon sign telling us this), Mariana Santiago’s new, one-act play follows the…ahem…“recovery” of four patients treated by a staff of caregivers who all suspiciously resemble each other. Dora (Liz Johnston-Dupre) has been…
Johnston Receives Zora Neale Hurston Prize. Johnston’s thesis, “My Mother Read My Dreams: Dream Interpretation in the African Diaspora,” shares fieldwork conducted with three African American women who practice the tradition of reading dreams in New Orleans. It engages deeply with Folklore Studies, especially belief studies, as well as with personal experience narratives and the importance of phenomenology in looking at emic interpretations of spiritual practices.
Liz performs as Lizzie Nova in Black Poets Matter Week 4: Women & Femmes Night
Complit Collage Episode Appearance
Right before the launch of Comparative Woman, the journal of Comparative Literature, Nano and Anwita engage in an informal conversation with Liz, the present editor-in-chief of the journal, to ask her about the first issue and the intended readers for the journal.
R. K. Smith Middle School is proud to announce that two seventh-grade students made the Jr. High District VII Honor Choir.
