Centering Unsung Voices: A Public Conversation with Screenwriter & Producer Monica Beletsky
Emmy, WGA, and PGA award-nominated creator, showrunner, writer, and executive producer Monica Beletsky has become known in the entertainment industry through the dynamic characters and projects she has helped bring to life. Beletsky has worked on over 130 episodes of ensemble dramas, with three series landing on various critics’ “Best Television” lists. Beletsky is set to debut as the creator, showrunner, and executive producer for the Apple TV+ limited true crime/drama
series “Manhunt.”
The series follows Lincoln’s war secretary and friend Edwin Stanton, played by Emmy Award-winning actor Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”), who was driven by his quest to catch assassin John Wilkes Booth and to carry out Lincoln’s legacy. The series also stars Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison, Matt Walsh, Brandon Flynn, Hamish Linklater, and Patton Oswalt. Beletsky set out to tell the investigation with a compelling range of characters from a conspiracy and true crime perspective, breathing new life into the Lincoln assassination story. “Manhunt”made its global debut on Apple TV+ in 2024. Aside from “Manhunt,” Beletsky is well known in the industry for her roles as writer/producer on the third season of the Emmy Award-nominated FX series “Fargo.” The series was met with critical praise and went on to receive multiple nominations during its third season including 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations. As the only woman writer/producer nominated in her category at the time, Beletsky received a shared nomination for Outstanding Limited Series for a Limited Series or a Movie. She also went on to receive a Writers’ Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Long Form and PGA Award nomination for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television for her time on the series.
Guy Emerson Mount is an assistant professor of American History and African American Studies at Wake Forest University focusing on the intersection of Black transnationalism, Western modernity, and global empires. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2018 where he also served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Social Sciences. He joined the faculty at Wake Forest University after previously teaching at Auburn University. Professor Mount’s research interests include the African Diaspora, slavery, emancipation, Jim Crow, colonialism, American empire, the Atlantic World, racial capitalism, critical mixed race studies, Afro-Asian solidarities, peace studies, and radical Black politics. Additionally, he has been at the forefront of advancing a new field of inquiry coalescing under the moniker of the Black Pacific—a liminal site of global Blackness where alternate formations of race, empire, and self-invention were re-imagined and contested alongside older notions established in the circuits of the Black Atlantic.
Brendle Recital Hall
Location and Directions
On the campus map, Scales Fine Arts Center is building 35.
Parking
Official parking for Scales Fine Arts Center is available behind the building in Lot Q. To park in this lot when entering Wake Forest from the Reynolda Rd. main entrance, turn left onto Allen Easley St. and then right onto Aaron Ln. To park in this lot when entering from the University Parkway entrance, turn right onto Carroll Weathers Dr. and proceed straight through the intersection at the Polo Rd. entrance. At the stop signs, take a left into Lot Q. After parking follow the sidewalk and walk up the large stairs on your left. Enter the building and Brendle will be to your left (M202). Please refer to the parking map for clarification.
Wheelchair Accessibility
Brendle Recital Hall has designated handicap seating in the back row of the hall, immediately after entering the space. Additionally, Scales Fine Arts Center offers two wheelchair-accessible routes to the concert hall. The first option is the easiest when parking in Lot Q. Enter through the lower floor doors located to the left of the large staircase in the breezeway between the two sections of scales. After entering, proceed straight ahead to the elevator. Brendle Recital hall lobby is immediately outside the elevator on the second floor.
The second option accommodates those parking in lots on either side of Wait Chapel. Enter through upper Scales by taking the ramp in the front of the building. You will enter on the 3rd floor. Proceed through the first set of double doors on the right to the elevator. Brendle Recital Hall is on the 2nd floor. Please refer to the campus accessibility map for clarification.