Magic and Monsters: Child Sexual Abuse and Institutional Betrayal

About this episode

The episode features an interview with filmmaker Norah Shapiro and actor Anthony Edwards discussing their documentary on child abuse within a theatre company.

In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar interviews filmmaker Norah Shapiro and actor and executive producer Anthony Edwards about their award-winning documentary Magic and Monsters, which follows survivors of the Children’s Theatre Company abuse scandal in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They describe charismatic artistic director John Clark Donahue as a serial child abuser who fostered a culture with multiple perpetrators, the 2010s Minnesota statute-of-limitations lookback that enabled 17...

People in this episode

Host: Teresa Huizar

Guests: Norah Shapiro, Anthony Edwards

Topics covered

• child sexual abuse
• institutional betrayal
• survivor stories
• documentary
• theatre scandal

Keywords

• child sexual abuse
• documentary
• survivors
• institutional betrayal
• theatre scandal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Children’s Theatre Company

Places: Minneapolis, Minnesota

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