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Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard

January LaVoy as The Poet

Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist

Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Production Assistant: Amanda Allen

Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes

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