Playlist: Shea Shackelford's Portfolio
This is an assortment of my work over the last five years, solo and with other producers--some grownups and some youth.
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Out Takes: The Unheard Stories of LGBTQ Teens
From Safe Space Radio | 59:00
This hour-long special is about the courage of teenagers who come out at a time in life when it is hardest to be different. So many of the legal and social changes in this country that support LGBTQ civil rights are happening because one-by-one, year-after-year, thousands of young people dare to come out to their family and friends, who little by little open minds and hearts.
Unfortunately, gay and transgender teenagers still face epidemic levels of depression and suicide. But there are many reasons for hope. This special explores those challenges and opportunities through the voices of youth, parents, teachers and experts. And it offers startling statistics and surprising information, like how making schools safer for LGBTQ teens actually benefits straight boys even more. Host and psychiatrist, Anne Hallward MD, offers an insightful mental health perspective and shares practical solutions that can change and even save lives.
This can go on forever
From Big Shed Audio | 10:25
When Carol was 20, she gave her baby boy away for adoption. Twenty years later, the son, Joel, came looking. The two tell their story of reunion.
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- This can go on forever
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Carol Brobeck and Joel Woodruff recount the adoption and reunion, twenty years later, that define their relationship. The story centers around the reunion itself, the moment when they actually found each other. Joel and Carol were interviewed separately, but their story is interwoven here, without narration or music.
Taco Land
From Big Shed Audio | Part of the Place + Memory series | 08:24
San Antonio is home to underground music mecca--an understated cinderblock shrine on the banks of the San Antonio river--Taco Land.
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- Taco Land
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- Big Shed Audio
Over a span of 25 years, an unassuming beer joint in San Antontio became a fabled house of unground musical magic. National acts like Yo La Tengo and the Minutemen played there. The Dead Milkmen wrote a song about it. And almost every other night, it nurtured a thriving punk and underground music scene. And at the heart of Taco Land was an iconic man named Ramiro Ayala. He ran Taco Land for 40 years, until he was murdered during a robbery in the Summer of 2005. The memories of customers, music from San Antonio bands and arcival tape take us there.
The Rabbit Hutch
From Big Shed Audio | Part of the Place + Memory series | 07:49
Have you ever eaten Fried Rabbit? Barbecued Rabbit? Rice with Rabbit Gravy? They were standard fare at the Venz Rabbit Hutch Restaurant in Logan, Alabama. But food was only only the beginning of the Rabbit Hutch experience.
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- The Rabbit Hutch
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- Big Shed Audio
For 15 years, the Venz Family operated The Rabbit Hutch Restaurant in the hamlet of Logan, Alabama, where they served fried and barbecued rabbit--rabbit they raised themselves. If you made it for dinner at the Rabbit Hutch, the Venz family would be sure to serve you showtunes with your home-grown dinner. We revisit this lost american treasure through the memories of former customers and the former owners, along with archival tape.
Gentrification on Logan Circle
From Big Shed Audio | 18:56
Profile of a DC neighborhood in transition by 8th grade students and teachers from The Cesar Chavez Public Charter School in Washington, DC.
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- Gentrification on Logan Circle
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- Big Shed Audio
Producer Shea Shackelford worked with an 8th grade class at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School in Washington, DC. While studying the concept of "gentrificaiton," they spent a week interviewing neighbors and businesses of the Logan Circle area about the transitions occuring in their neighbornood.
Picture Day!
From Big Shed Audio | 03:29
Spend a day with a school-portrait photographer at an elementary school in the Washington, DC.
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- Picture Day!
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This profile of Sterling Hoffman, a school-portrait photographer in the Washington, DC area, is non-narrated. The story uses interviews mixed with scenes from a day of shooting at an elementary school.
Sex Education
From Big Shed Audio | 05:54
Teenagers talk about the realities of their sex lives and what they've figured out this far.
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- Sex Education
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- Big Shed Audio
"We talk about sex probably as many times a day as we talk about food ... and that’s a lot." A teenage reporter has frank conversations with other high school students about the real issues they face as sexually active adolescents. This story was co-produced by youth reporter Erica Granados-de la Rosa and grown-up producer Shea Shackelford.
Postcard from The National Cornbread Festival
From Big Shed Audio | 03:00
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that everybody loved. To this day my favorite meal is pinto beans, corn bread and buttermilk."
Pour a tall glass of buttermilk and come with us to the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. This short, non-narrated postcard is a whirlwind sonic celebration of Southern food and culture.
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that everybody loved. To this day my favorite meal is pinto beans, corn bread and buttermilk." Pour a tall glass of buttermilk and come with us to the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. This short, non-narrated postcard is a whirlwind sonic celebration of Southern food and culture.
Size Isn't Everything
From Shea Shackelford | 06:09
Joel Eckhaus makes and plays ukuleles in South Portland, Maine.
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- Size Isn't Everything
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You might not think the ukulele is a serious instrument--unless you are Joel Eckhaus, a luthier and musician. From workshop to stage, Joel is serious about having fun.
Kicking Ass and Changing Names
From Shea Shackelford | 05:50
Female wrestler Amanda Storm, 40, would love to just take your head off.
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- Kicking Ass and Changing Names
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After 10 years chasing bright lights and bruises from coast to coast, Amanda Storm figured out a few things about professional wrestling and herself. Now 40, wrestling mostly in the state of Maine, she’s doing things her own way.