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'By the Way, Meet Vera Stark' opens at Raleigh's Theatre in the Park

Dani Coan plays Vera Stark in Theatre in the Park's production of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.
Theatre in the Park
Dani Coan plays Vera Stark in Theatre in the Park's production of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.

Theatre in the Park, Raleigh’s beloved black box community theatre, is staging Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s 2011 play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, from Aug 15-25.

The play covers 70 years in the life of a fictional African-American maid who becomes a film star in the 1930s. This production stars actress Dani Coan in the titular role.

Leoneda Inge chats with the director of the production, Yamila Monge.

Guest

Yamila Monge, box office and guest services manager, Theatre in the Park

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.