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DR. FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS
FromTheatre · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing & Behind the Scenes Conversations
DR. FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS
FromTheatre · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing & Behind the Scenes Conversations
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20 minutes
Released:
Jun 18, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Dr. François Clemmons is perhaps best known as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s Officer Clemmons. He made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children’s television program. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an honorary degree from Middlebury College. In 1973, he won a Grammy Award for a recording of Porgy and Bess; in 1986, he founded and directed the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble; and from 1997 until his retirement in 2013, Clemmons was the Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence and director of the Martin Luther King Spiritual Choir at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he currently resides.· https://francoisclemmons.net · www.creativeprocess.info
Released:
Jun 18, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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