Colin Campbell is a writer and director for theater and film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Seraglio, a short film he wrote and directed with wife Gail Lerner. He has taught Theater and/or Filmmaking at Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, Cal Poly Pomona University, and to incarcerated youth through The Unusual Suspects. His one person show titled, Grief: A One Man ShitShow, premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival where it won a Best of Broadwater Award. He recently wrote the book titled Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose. You can find more about Colin at https://colincampbellauthor.com/
In this episode we talk about the death of his two teenage children, bereavement challenges in processing his grief (including anger), using the Jewish tradition to embrace grief, how his grief changed overtime, his one person show and new book, and grief dreams of his deceased children.
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