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Episode 19 - Kevin Cloud and Lisa Kenner Grissom - Vilna: A Resistance Story


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This episode features a conversation with Kevin Cloud and Lisa Kenner Grissom about their new musical: Vilna: A Resistance Story.

VILNA: A RESISTANCE STORY is an exciting new musical about Vitka Kempner, a 19-year-old Jewish girl who inspired the heroic Jewish resistance movement in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust. After the Nazis invade Poland, a fierce and fearless Vitka escapes to the free, bohemian city of Vilna, Lithuania where she meets a group of young artists—led by visionary poet Abba Kovner—and inspires them to form a resistance. But when the Nazis invade and confine Jews to the ghetto, Vitka and the group must find creative ways to fight back. With the Nazis bearing down, they make a daring escape to the forest where Vitka blows up a Nazi train—the first act of sabotage by a Jewish partisan in WWII—paving the way for their return to reclaim their beloved city. With a vibrant klezmer-influenced pop score, VILNA tells a forgotten and inspiring story that speaks to our times.

This episode features the songs “Vilna, My Vilna", performed by Samantha Massell, Greg Lafollette, and the Ensemble of Vilna: A Resistance Story, as well as “Sheep to the Slaughter” performed by Kyle Anderson and the Ensemble of Vilna: A Resistance Story.


Connect with Vilna: A Resistance Story:

Website: https://www.vilnamusical.com/

Instagram: @vilnamusical

Connect with Kevin Cloud:

Website: https://www.kevincloud.co/

Instagram: @kevincloudkc

Connect with Lisa Kenner Grissom:

Website: http://lisakennergrissom.com/

Instagram: @lisa_kenner_grissom_


Connect with New York Theatre Barn:

  • Twitter: @nytheatrebarn

  • Instagram: @newyorktheatrebarn 

  • Facebook.com/nytheatrebarn

  • nytheatrebarn.org 

  • Pauls’s personal instagram: @paulsmacs

  • Teresa’s personal instagram: @terijoyeaux

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