STAGE DOOR is a new one-hour radio segment on WURD’s THE SOURCE
and features weekly guests discussing Theatre, Arts, and Culture.

Listen exclusively on WURD Radio! 96.1FM and 900AM WURD, streaming live on wurdradio.com, the WURD Radio app or watch live on WURD TV via Facebook and YouTube.

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MEET THE Co-hosts

PTC Resident Artist Jeffrey Page is an opera and theatre director of both classical and contemporary works. As director and choreographer, he spearheaded the Tokyo production of Memphis, which received four Yomiuri Award nominations, including Best Musical. The first African American to be named the Marcus Institute Fellow for Opera Directing at the Juilliard School, he has also been nominated for an Emmy Award, and won an MTV Video Music Award for his work with Beyoncé. His work was featured on Beyoncé’s “The Formation World Tour,” in her historic Coachella performance, and in two of her HBO specials. Page was the associate creative director for Mariah Carey’s “Sweet, Sweet Fantasy” European Tour, and has been a featured choreographer on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance.”  He recently directed MAKING MICHEAUX (Book and lyrics by JESSE L. KEARNEY, JR. Music by ALPHONSO HORNE) for Prospect Theatre in NYC.

As a performer, Page was in the original Broadway cast of Fela! and choreographed the Broadway musical Violet starring Sutton Foster. At the Barrington Theatre Company,  Page won a Berkshire Theater Award for Joe Iconis’ Broadway Bounty Hunter. In 2016, he established Movin’ Legacy as an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the ethnology and documentation of contemporary and traditional dance from Africa and the African diaspora. He holds a Master’s of Fine Arts degree, (Theatre Directing) from Columbia University in New York City, and has been awarded the Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellowship from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Jeffrey joined Harvard University as a Lecturer in Theater, Dance and Media. Currently, he is preparing to choreograph and co-direct, with Diane Paulus, the upcoming Broadway production of 1776, after premiering at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University.

You can hear Jeffrey every Friday at noon on Philadelphia’s WURD, as he co-moderates STAGE DOOR, a weekly radio show covering Arts & Culture, with Tiffany Bacon, host of THE SOURCE.

Tiffany Bacon’s mission is to edu-tain the world and be an agent for social change.

She is an actor, radio personality, health educator, fashion and costume designer. She began her career in radio in 1990 while attending Temple University. The university radio station, WRTI, sparked a lifelong love for radio and broadcasting in general. She spent a few years at B101, more than a decade at Power 99FM and now she can be heard on Classix 107.9 and WURD 96.1 FM. Ms. Bacon created and hosted the groundbreaking radio show, Inner City, where she featured new artists, live poetry, live bands, Neo and classic Soul, eclectic Hip Hop and Jazz. Inner City was responsible for breaking new artists like Jill Scott, Music Soulchild, Kindred The Family Soul, Bilal, Floetry, Jaguar Wright and John Legend.
In addition to her dedication to the field of broadcasting, Ms. Bacon has served as a high school Drama/Dance/Broadcasting teacher, theater company founder, casting director, dancer, choreographer, fashion/costume designer, director, TV producer and actress. Ms. Bacon landed lead and/or supporting roles in August Wilson’s Fences & The Piano Lesson, Ruined by Lynn Nottage, For Colored Girls by Ntozake Shange and Purlie Victorious by Ozzie Davis just to name a few. Tiffany graduated from a 2-year acting program at the William Esper School in New York City. She is dedicated to bringing great stories to life on stage and screen.

Ms. Bacon also created a clothing line, Mo’Tiff Designs. She made her National debut as a fashion designer in September 2018 when her collection “Accents of Africa” walked The Runway during Philly Fashion Week.

Even though Tiffany is dedicated to her work in broadcasting, theater and fashion, Tiffany is also dedicated to public health; she is a certified HIV Educator who works with a STI/HIV prevention education project for African American teen girls called Horizons. She is the co-creator of asexual, reproductive and mental health awareness program for African-American teens. We Get to Choose received a grant to test its effectiveness with the focused population.

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