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Vermont Edition

AI theater, a cannabis podcast and a Sasquatch festival

By Mikaela Lefrak,
Jon Ehrens, Andrea Laurion
Published October 2, 2024 at 4:18 PM EDT

A new play on a Vermont stage has a sibling relationship at its center. What鈥檚 different about these two sisters? One is human, and the other is AI.

Aileen Wen McGroddy is the New York-based director of "Sisters" at Northern Stage in White River Junction. She explains how Northern Stage has collaborated with Dartmouth鈥檚 Computational Science department to bring theater and artificial intelligence together.

Kris Brown hosts the podcast "Cannasations" from him Jeffersonville recording studio, where he interviews Vermont marijuana growers and sellers. He shares an update on Vermont鈥檚 recreational marijuana marketplace, two years in.

Plus: Vermont Edition producer Andrea Laurion visits a Sasquatch festival in Whitehall, New York.

Broadcast live on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mikaela Lefrak
Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
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Jon Ehrens
Jon has spent his entire adult life working in broadcast journalism. He began his career in Baltimore at WYPR, and has since been a producer for WHYY, Vox, The Majority Report with Sam Seder, and The Talkhouse. Jon is a lifelong recording artist whose projects include Repelican, The Art Department, and Dungeonesse. He lives with his wife in Panton, Vermont.
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Andrea Laurion
Andrea Laurion joined 开云体育 as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children鈥檚 birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.
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