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Radio Theatre: Student actors discover "everyone has a story"

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Director Kelly Mullen takes us behind the scenes of Boy Gets Girl, the next production of the St. Scholastica Theater Department.

It's a show chosen to coincide with Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but the young actors discovered, to their surprise, that when they talked about the show to their family and friends, everyone had a story - to one degree or another - related to stalking or sexual violence.

April 23, audience members can take part in a panel discussion after the show related to stalking and sexual violence.  Part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the session will include members of the cast and crew as well as representatives from PAVSA, Men as Peacemakers, and St. Scholastica's Violence Intervention and Prevention Program.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.