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John "Junebug Jabbo Jones" O'Neal
This is a repeat of a 2011 program of Alabama State Arts Council Director Al Head
interviewing John
O'Neal, actor,
playwright, founder and now retired artistic
director of Junebug Productions based in New
Orleans. As a civil rights activist beginning in
the early 1960s he co-founded the Free
Southern Theater. In that company he worked
as a field director for the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
and worked as
National Field Program Director with the
Committee for Racial Justice. He is probably
best know for his widely toured character Junebug
Jabbo Jones, a mythic figure who symbolizes the wisdom
of common people. O’Neal has
written eighteen plays, a musical comedy, poetry and several essays.
He is a winner of a Ford Foundation’s
Leadership for a Changing World award
(2005), the Award of
Merit from the Association of Performing Arts
Presenters (2010) and the United States Artists
Award. He was in Alabama demonstrating elements of the Story
Circle Project to
Arts leaders here. The Story Circle
concept allows individuals to
share intimate stories about themselves to help
bridge understanding between races. This special radio series will air every Sunday at 11:00 - 11:30 A.M., on the Troy University Public Radio Network at:
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