The Green Duck Lounge is a new play that explores how the contemporary #BlackLivesMatter movement parallels the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s by focusing on the life of Leon Jordan, a Kansas City police officer, MO legislator, and civil rights activist. The play is a swift sixty-minutes with a first act set in 2015, a second act set forty years earlier, and a third act comprised of a post-play discussion. For this production, Equity actor and founding artistic director of Kansas City’s Melting Pot Theatre, Harvey Williams, was in residence at Mizzou to perform the role of Leon Jordan. 

Scenic Design by Brad Carlson; Costume Design by Marc Vital; Lighting Design by Vincente Williams; Sound Design by Jae Shanks; Photography by Rebecca Allen.

In Publication

Prioritizing Black Experience, or the Inevitability of Educating White Audiences: A Discourse Analysis // Impacting Audiences: Methods for Studying Change, 2022

'The Green Duck Lounge' aims to be more than a play // Columbia Missourian, 2/21/18

“The Ground on Which We Stand” by Michelle Tyrene Johnson and Claire Syler // Howlround Theatre Commons, 6/10/18