Mamie Till Mobley Reads the FBI Report

Music composed by Andy Teirstein Text from the FBI Report on the Murder of Emmett Till Singer - Josephine Howell Pianist - Judith Cohen Direction and Production by Andy Teirstein Cinematography - Brea Wilson Editing - Luke Wigren Sound - Jason Frazier

In 1955 Emmet Till , 14 years old, was tortured and murdered in Mississippi after accusations that he whistled at a white grocery cashier clerk. Mamie Till Mobley, his mother, insisted that the casket containing his body be left open, because, in her words, "I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby." She went on to become an activist and educator. In 2022, Spectrum Dance Theater presented "Grief," choreographed by Donald Byrd, with the aria by composer Andy Teirstein.

HOW THEY BROKE AWAY

Music by Andy Teirstein
Words by Carl Sandburg, from The Rootabaga Stories (1922)
Directed and Edited by Andy Teirstein

Gimme the Axe • David DeWitt
Axe Me No Questions • Sonya Headlum
Train Ticket Agent • Zack Marshall
Please Gimme • Sam Simahk
Storyteller • Erin Stewart

CLUCK OLD HEN

Film and Music by Andy Teirstein
Dancer Max Teirstein 
With Olga Hiiva, Irya Gittelson, and Julie Lyon Rose