First hour: State Comptroller candidate Mark Dunlea
Second hour: 2018 Fringe Festival preview
The Green Party candidate for State Comptroller is in Rochester. Mark Dunlea is an environmental and anti-poverty activist. His platform focuses on divesting the state pension fund from fossil fuels. This hour, we’ll talk to him about his candidacy and his priorities for the state.
Then in our second hour, it’s our annual Fringe Festival preview. The 11-day festival includes more than 500 performances. We sit down with the festival’s producer and artists from a range of acts to talk about what’s on stage at this year’s event. In studio:
- Erica Fee, producer of the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
- Abby DeVuyst, co-creator of “Bushwhacked Backyard”
- Tokeya Graham, member of We All Write and its performance, “BirthWrite”
- Corrine Fallone, artist performing in “The Painter”
- Penny Sterling, storyteller and performer in “Parents & Children, Husbands & Wives: It’s All Relatives”
- Danica Zielinski, performer with “Beyond Words”
- Luane Davis Haggerty, director of “Beyond Words”
- Lee Wright, artistic director of “Holding On through Song: A Celebration of the African-American Spiritual”
- Brad Craddock, playwright of “Learning Targets”
- Anne Wilcox, co-creator and choreographer for “The Kitchen Revue and Other Enticing Treats”