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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2022.099.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Fry, Melanie Klarman |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
05/11/2022 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. |
Scope & Content |
Recording of an oral history interview featuring Melanie Klarman Fry conducted at the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum by museum volunteer Lorretta Bertalot on May 11, 2022. The audio track is 39:42 in length. Fry speaks concerning her struggles with mental health and alcoholism, her career as an actress in the theater, and her work as a licensed professional councilor and psychotherapist. 00:00 family upbringing and schooling 05:10 struggles with mental health and alcoholism 07:15 theater & musical career / American Theatre Company 13:24 other jobs and touring with Ted Swindley 14:30 continued education and work as a psychotherapist 16:55 Oklahoma film industry, film classes, and theater work 21:10 other activities: water volleyball & cohousing community 26:45 brother & family life 28:35 psychotherapy practice 32:24 arts community in Tulsa |
Search Terms |
actors & actresses alcoholism American Theatre Company cohousing communities Hamilton Junior High School Heartwood Commons immigrants & immigration Jews John Ross Elementary School mental health & mental institutions Nathan Hale High School oral history interviews post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) psychiatrists & psychotherapists singers & singing suicide & suicide attempts Theatre Tulsa Tulsa Project Theatre Tulsa Spotlight Theatre Tulsa Youth Group Theatre veterans |
People |
Ellis, Richard Fry, Dennis Fry, Melanie Klarman Murta, Mary Margaret Odle, Robert "Bob" L. Pope, Gerald D. "Jerry" Roberts, Kitty Runyan, Jim Swindley, Ted Tripplehorn, Jeanne Marie |