We're Doing The Wiz
We're Doing The Wiz
In 2004, a racial controversy erupted at a small, mostly white performing arts high school in rural Massachusetts. There were protests. TV news crews. A tense all-school assembly. And then, an announcement: the school would stage an iconic American musical that no one saw coming. This is the story of that production.
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Ian Coss
Co-Creator, Host, Producer, and Sound Design
Ian Coss is a creator of acclaimed podcasts. His 9-part documentary The Big Dig was honored with a Peabody Award and named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by the New Yorker and Vulture, while spending over six weeks in the Top 100 shows on Apple Podcasts. Previously, his audio memoir Forever is a Long Time was named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Apple Podcasts.
As a founding member of PRX Productions, he has produced and scored several limited series with the Radiotopia network — Ways of Hearing, The Great God of Depression, Over the Road, Blind Guy Travels and My Mother Made Me — and launched the long-running Antiques Roadshow podcast, Detours. His work has appeared on Snap Judgement and 99 Percent Invisible; featured at the Tribeca Festival, and recognized with multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards and ‘Podcast of the Year’ nomination from the Podcast Academy.
Sakina Ibrahim
Co-Creator, Host, and Producer
Sakina Ibrahim is an Author, Artist, and Educator who uses storytelling, choreography, and social entrepreneurship to build bridges and cultivate community. As an NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Big Words to Little Me, her work has received national recognition and led to collaborations with Google, the Trayvon Martin Foundation, and the Essence Festival.
Holding an MFA from UC Irvine and driven by a deep commitment to youth empowerment, Sakina founded the Dance Arts Academy Foundation, which provides high-quality arts education to Title I schools across Southern California.
Through art, media, and education, Sakina uses her voice and vision to inspire the next generation of leaders and changemakers, harnessing the transformative power of the arts to create lasting impact.
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