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Cast

• subject: Marcia Whitehead | bio

  Marcia Whitehead
  Ms. Whitehead is a rare lirico-spinto soprano studying with world-renowned vocal coach Franco Iglesias (Placido Domingo) in New York City. She has performed concert works with choral societies and regional orchestras in California. Her operatic repertoire includes Aida, Tosca, Un Ballo in Maschera, Andrea Chenier, Cavalleria Rusticana and Manon Lescaut. Ms. Whitehead is the subject of the award-winning documentary Laundry and Tosca, and has traveled over the last few years to festivals with the film, including its premiere in Milan, and a screening at the Ashland Independent Film Festival where she sang at Opening Night festivities. Ms Whitehead often travels with the film to perform mini-concerts and other inspirational programs.

Crew

• Director: Lauralee Farrer | bio

  Director Lauralee Farrer has been writing, producing, and directing film and theater for over thirty years. She is founder and principal filmmaker for Burning Heart productions and the award-winning documentary Laundry and Tosca (2005), the innovative feature-length documentary The Fair Trade (2008), the narrative feature Praying the Hours (2008); and an ambitious set of feature narrative films surrounding Rodin’s sculpture of the Burghers of Calais (2010). Events with various combinations of film screenings, music, social activism awareness, and Farrer’s public speaking have been presented in recent years at film festivals, panels, conferences, colleges, summits, churches, and professional and private environments.

  Farrer’s freelance work for humanitarian organizations took her to Spain when Franco died, to Kenya during the droughts of 1981 and 1991, to Somalia when the war broke out, and to Uganda to write about early outbreaks of AIDS and the plight of its orphans. She wrote of the Sisters of Charity in Ethiopia, was in Moscow when the 1991 coup took place, and when Leningrad became St. Petersburg again. She was in East Germany before and after the wall went down, in Mexico City to write about cultures of poverty, and in U.S. cities like Philadelphia, Houston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Boston to write about American life. This is the material from which her directing and screenwriting voice emerges.

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