Janice Liddell ... In 2005, after reading articles about Baker, Liddell debuted her play, “Who Will Sing for Lena?” starring Carol Mitchell-Leon in the title role. “It was just channeling ...

This one-woman play by Janice L. Liddell gives voice to Lena Baker, who, in 1944 Georgia, killed her abusive, white employer in self-defense. Dramatized from actual trial transcripts, the play ...

The play, written by Janice Lee Liddell, is a dramatic creation based on the public documents and trial transcripts of the black American Lena Baker, who was charged and executed for the murder of ...

Last Saturday, at the Abuja International Theatre Festival (ABITFA), Janice Lidell’s Who Will Sing For Lena? a monologue about a black American woman Lena Mae Baker who was unlawfully sentenced ...