Fellow Travelers, the journey. Community Conversation In collaboration with Art Deco Museum, Miami Beach Pride, and SAVE Foundation.

Fellow travelers, forming bonds of empathy across community groups supporting our basic human wants and needs. All relationships are established through a cultural and historical lens. Personal stories focus as we explore history as a reference point for forming and creating our relationships. Key community stakeholders compare experiences from their reality to the opera fiction, lives from 1950 when young journalist Timothy Laughlin and State Department official Hawkins Fuller swept into a passionate love affair, just as Senator McCarthy began his hunt for “sexual subversives” in the government. This is the story of Fellow Travelers, the opera, which will be playing at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center April 23rd-28th.

“Fuller and Laughlin aren’t based on any particular historical figures. Both contain bits and pieces of people I’ve known in my own life, which makes them like the characters one finds being created by just about any novelist of the “non-historical” sort.” Thomas Mallon