Film Podcasts Pop Culture TheaterNovember 09, 2011
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Scout and AtticusHarper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird was an instant classic that was made into a great movie. Mary Badham played the role of “Scout” when she was 10 years old, and it transformed her life. Susan Wallner talks to Badham about her special relationship with Gregory Peck (“Atticus”) and the universal appeal of this Southern tale of race, justice, and childhood. The play To Kill A Mockingbird runs at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ through November 20th.

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Susan Wallner
Susan Wallner

Susan Wallner is an award-winning producer interested in culture, history, and the intersection of technology and the arts. She has produced national documentaries including the CINE award-winners Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice, Toshiko Takaezu: Portrait of an Artist, and New Glass at Wheaton. Currently, her study of the architect/designer’s house, Michael Graves: The Warehouse, is in national distribution through American Public Television. Susan was the series producer of the award-winning weekly arts program State of the Arts for 17 years at NJN Public Television. As a principal at PCK Media, she continues to be instrumental in the show’s continuing production for NJTV and WHYY. Susan works with a variety of clients, producing documentaries, live webcasts, podcasts, and projects such as 7 Steps to Freedom, a cell phone/website tour of Underground Railroad sites in Salem County. She also writes bi-weekly articles for NJ Today’s online Arts & Culture blog. Susan has an MA from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from New College of Florida. She also studied photography and art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her awards include 11 regional Emmys, four CINE Golden Eagles, two NETA Awards, a Worldfest Houston Gold Special Jury Award, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship.

  • JIm

    What a wonderful interview! So interesting to hear the perspectives of Mary Badham.

  • marc gertner

    Thanks Susan and thanks to Mary Badham as well . This is a great film and a personal favorite. Viewing it evokes in me a sense of of the purity and oneness of the human spirit that we know exists but see all too seldom in our daily lives,

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