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Panelists' web sites & more:

S.L. Wisenberg

TITLES & WRITERS

THEATRE & PERFORMANCE

Link to definition of verbatim theatre and audio excerpts

Moises Kaufman:

The Laramie Project

Gross Indecency: Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

I am My Own Wife

Heiner Kipphardt

In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Irene Sankoff and David Hein

Come From Away

Lynn Nottage
play based on ex-slave narratives

Anna Deavere Smith

Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, E Patrick Johnson (also book)

How Long Will I Cry? Voices of Youth Violence
a play based on DePaul University (Chicago) students' interviews with city residents touched by violence, led & edited by Miles Harvey; free download

Alan Rickman, Katherine Viner
My Name is Rachel Corrie

Philip Ralph
Deep Cut

David Hare
The Permanent Way

play by Robin Soans based on Talking to Terrorists 

POETRY

Ted Kooser

The Blizzard Voices

Barbara Helfgott-Hyett

In Evidence: Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

Helene Pilibosian

Carvings from an Heirloom: Oral History Poems

Tim Tomlinson

Yolanda: an oral history in verse

PRINT--BOOKS--titles & authors

Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil and Gilian McCain)

Svetlana Alexievich 

Studs Terkel

Anne Speckhar

Talking to Terrorists: Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers & "Martyrs"

Catherine A. Stewart  

Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project

Edie (Jean Stein)

Oral History Reader (3rd Edition)

The Edge Becomes the Center, DW Gibson 

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold (especially the introduction!), Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis

Dave Eggers:

Zeitoun

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: a Novel

WEB
Interviews with formerly-enslaved people, Federal Writers' Project, US

Debbie Nathan, "Hearing Aunt Harriet"--really great piece