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LETTERS READ is a series of readings in which local performers interpret letters and documents written by culturally vital individuals from various times and Louisiana communities presented by stationer, Nancy Sharon Collins, and Antenna. 2025 is the ninth consecutive season.Productions are free, open to the public, and presented live and as podcasts.
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Signup to Generate a PitchLETTERS READ is a series of readings in which local performers interpret letters and documents written by culturally vital individuals from various times and Louisiana communities presented by stationer, Nancy Sharon Collins, and Antenna. 2025 is the ninth consecutive season. Productions are free, open to the public, and presented live and as podcasts.
LETTERS READ is hosted by Nancy Sharon Collins. The show has published 50 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "LETTERS READ INCUBATOR XX: Armen Merjian" (5 June 2026, 35 minutes), "An Interview with the Director" (5 April 2026, 16 minutes), and "LETTERS READ INCUBATOR XIX: How Activism Activates" (18 February 2026, 8 minutes).
LETTERS READ publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 15 minutes across 50 episodes.
Booking probability for LETTERS READ is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. LETTERS READ requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. LETTERS READ's contact route on record: verified email.
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Nancy Sharon Collins hosts LETTERS READ, an arts podcast with 50 episodes published.
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Episode #3
This segment in our tenth anniversary season, is about Armen Merjian, a stellar example of the 2026 Letters Read theme, “What Activates Activists?” Merjian is amongst this country’s leading civil rights attorneys and...
Episode #1
Dave Walker, veteran journalist and creator/producer of The Museum Goer , interviews Letters Read director Nancy Sharon Collins about ten years of this project's programming. Yet another example of 2026's...
This mini-podcast introduces the 2026 and 10th anniversary season. Listen to this research outtake about how one Louisiana woman decided to take action about the first direct hit to overturn Roe v Wade and destroy...
Episode #4
Remembering the Legacy of Terri Bartlett. In 1984, Terri Bartlett moved to New Orleans to found Planned Parenthood Louisiana. For more than a decade thereafter, Bartlett fought tirelessly for reproductive rights and...
Episode #3
Welcome to the first, full, 2025 Letters Read episode. This program was recorded in two locations. The overlying structure in a studio. The other in a noisy restaurant near Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, during lunch...
This mini-podcast continues the 2025 season about sex. Today’s reading is about love letters. Inspired by documentation of love, two letters in particular. Moreover this segment focuses on how love works. Like when two...
Hello! Welcome to Letters Read. The ongoing series in which letters and written documents about culturally vital individuals from various times and Louisiana communities are interpreted into spoken word performances...
This podcast wraps up the 2024 incubator-style programming on the early days of HIV | AIDS. This series is brought to you in support of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana . Most productions in this series are...
This podcast, and one or two more before year’s end, wrap-up the 2024 incubator-style mini-series on the early days of HIV | AIDS. Brought to you in support of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. The recording is...
October 29 at 7:00 pm CDT Newcomb Institute Diboll Gallery, room 300 3rd floor of the Commons 43 Newcomb Place Tulane University campus. A second reading from the archives of Josephine Louise Newcomb. This one...
From 1981 to 1998, K. (Kenneth) Brad Ott wrote, edited, and published the grassroots Dialogue Newsjournal reporting community activism and activities in New Orleans. This third mini podcast in the four-part LETTERS READ...
Segment 3 in the mini-series about the early days of the New Orleans HIV|AIDS epidemic. Comprising two recorded clips from an interview with Noel Twilbeck. In the first, Twillbeck explains the origins of NO/AIDS Task...
In conjunction with LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana, Letters Read brings you this first of four, mini podcasts on the early days of HIV|AIDS. This segment is based on original source material from the 1990s ACT UP...
Allow us to introduce the 2024 mini-series of letters and documents from the early days of HIV|AIDS. A late 20th century crisis. Most of the material is New Orleans in particular, Louisiana, and then the country at...
Listen to this clip from an interview with Jarret Lofstead whose role it was to wade through, and strategically process, thousands, and thousands, of pages of court documents building the Letters Read narrative for the...
Recorded Saturday, April 13 2024 in front of a live audience at Catapult in New Orleans. Featured Readers: Emcee Chris Kamenstein, Director Nancy Sharon Collins, Shadow Angelina Starkey, and Robert Valley. H. Sophie...
LETTERS READ
This production was created from material collected during the creation of Drugs, Sex, Rock & Roll: A Year of Magic and Wonder. Which coincided with the project’s director/writer’s move back from New York to New...
Listen to this iteration of an oft-told tale. How easily an innocent out of towner is drawn to the dark side of New Orleans. This specific story, ca. 1985, focuses on one year, one incredibly transformative year. For...
Continuing our New York/New Orleans journey, we bring you the only project Robert Moses ever did in the Crescent City. Locally referred to as the Riverfront Expressway . Robert Moses, the greatest builder New York has...
Introducing Season 7. Letters Read director, stationer, Nancy Sharon Collins talks about this year’s theme: the two very different cities that she loves. And, a lagniappe as they say in south Louisiana. A little...
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district attorney, State of the World Forum
defenceman, University of South Carolina School of Law
Weather Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Japan-based additive manufacturing consultant
co-founder and executive director, LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana
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