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Split Knuckles Theatre actors talk about "Endurance" production

KUAC's Susie Hackett talks to Brian Cook and Michael Toomey from Split Knuckles Theatre company. Their production of "Endurance" is this weekend, November 21 and 22. Hear a conversation about the work and imagination it takes to combine the story of the great explorer Ernest Shackleton's challenges and the Wall Street economic crisis of 2008 into one production.

Susie became a volunteer announcer at KUAC in 1991 and an on-call announcer in 1994. She began broadcasting during high school in Pennsylvania, where she produced and hosted a weekly current events program. After graduating from Syracuse University with a minor in radio and television studies, she worked at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.