Ep.4/ Fleeing her homeLand: Dagmar’s Story
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In this episode, Katharine and Seth are in conversation with Dagmar Stansova, whose mother was a hidden child separated from her parents for many years during the Holocaust. Similarly, Dagmar had a dramatic childhood, being separated from her parents for a year after being caught trying to flee communism in their home country. She describes in poetic detail what it means to take difficult situations and transmute them into something beautiful and profound. Dagmar also shares a piece of her writing, a tool she has used throughout her life to make meaning from everything life has handed her.
More about our guest:
Dagmar Stansova is an actress, writer, script doctor and troublemaker. She escaped from the former Czechoslovakia to Israel, then escaped from Israel to New York City, then from New York City to Los Angeles, then from Los Angeles to Asheville. She got her BA in Latin American, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University, completed her pre-med requirements at State University of New York and to the shock of family and friends pursued a career in the Theatre Arts. She's performed in leading roles Off-Broadway, on TV shows, soaps and films, including Coppola’s Dracula. Her poems and short stories have appeared in several anthologies and literary journals including Evening Street Review, OnTheBus, Side Eye To The Apocalypse and Rattle. Loose Underwear, her solo play, won the Producers Encore Award, Pick Of The Fringe, was selected to perform at the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival and received the Diverse Diva recognition. She teaches Method Writing on Zoom.
Where to find Dagmar:
Email her at stansova@aol.com.
Link to a trailer of her one woman show, Loose Underwear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xviwMh3fJeo
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