Enter the username on file and we'll send you a code to reset your password. Not long ago, a woman at a college threatened Kathryn Fumie, who had just questioned why the country needs affirmative action. She's Linda the bigot and she was playing her part -- and doing her job -- to try to get some ideas through to people on the nation's college campuses. She's an actress with GTC Dramatic Dialogues , an acting company that tours campuses, performing skits and then holding sometimes-heated discussions on race, sexual assault, and substance abuse.
MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. She's also Jessica the naive freshman who didn't see someone spike her drink at a frat house and was sure the only reason she was being led upstairs was to play pool, and she's Nicole the date rape victim, perhaps the hardest role she plays, given that people in the audience usually tell her she's responsible for her own rape.
Most of her work with the organization is in the fall, when colleges hire the group to perform and lead discussions during freshman orientation.
But this month, sexual assault awareness month , the company was invited to perform two shows at a Twin Cities campus we are not naming it to protect the privacy of the participants. One performance was for the general student body -- only a couple dozen showed up -- and one was for the entire athletic department. The players were required to be there, even though the NCAA championship basketball game was underway. Fumie, accompanied by actors Paul Rutledge and Darrick Mosley, traverse the country in search of an honest dialogue on subjects that college bravado can turn into a joke that's not funny.
She's working with four different acting companies, but she's the veteran with GTC Dramatic Dialogues now, although she knows she can't play a college kid forever.
