Festival Co-Directors
Karen Kohlhaas and Jen Waller
Festival Director Emeritus
Panny Mayfield
Visiting Artists and Scholars
Dr. Jack Barbera
University of Mississippi
Matthew Brumlow
Acting in scenes from ORPHEUS DESCENDING
Dr. Virginia Craighill
University of the South at Sewanee
Heidi-Marie Ferren
Acting in scenes from ORPHEUS DESCENDING
Dr. Matt Foss
University of Toledo
Dr. Françoise Hamlin
Brown University
Author of THE CROSSROADS AT CLARKSDALE
Dr. Kenneth Holditch
University of New Orleans
Author of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND THE SOUTH
and THE WORLD OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Elizabeth Thompson
Acting in scenes from ORPHEUS DESCENDING
Dr. Clark White
Founder, Blues Chattanooga Resource Center
Michigan State University, Temple University, Northeastern University, Brown University,
Morehouse College. Visiting Scholar, WEB DuBois Center for African American Studies
at Harvard University, Delta Cultural and Research Center at Mississippi Valley State
University.