Lydia-Renee Darling dropped some gems in this episode. She is an actor-scriptwriter from Madison, Wisconsin and self-described "quadruple M"... a mixed, multi-hyphenate media maven! Lydia is a BFA Musical Theatre grad from the Webster Conservatory class of 2020 and will earn her MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in the fall of 2021. Her first full-length play about interracial relationships and racial prejudice was produced at The Actor’s Rep in February 2020. Performance credits include Jocasta in Antigone at Yokohama Theatre Group in Kawasaki, Japan and Pride and Prejudice at The Rep St. Louis. #rememberadam, a Zoom short produced, written and acted by Lydia in September of 2020, was featured in three festivals. Lydia also filmed and released a solo comedy webseries during the pandemic (The Misadventures of a Wannabe Beauty Guru). As a biracial, second-generation Ghanaian-American, Lydia creates and performs in pieces that focus on seemingly niche but universally compelling stories to lift the voices of marginalized communities on screen and stage.
