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Playwright Mitzi Sinnott

Flatwoods native Mitzi Sinnott uses art to spark conversations about the legacy of race, class, and violence in America. Through her one-woman play, "SNAPSHOT: A True Story of Love, Interrupted by Invasion," Sinnott shares her journey to reconcile with her father, a veteran haunted by his experience in Vietnam.
Season 12 Episode 2 Length 27:12 Premiere: 09/15/16

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Renee Shaw is the Director of Public Affairs and Moderator at KET, currently serving as host of KET’s weeknight public affairs program Kentucky Edition, the signature public policy discussion series Kentucky Tonight, the weekly interview series Connections, Election coverage and KET Forums.

Since 2001, Renee has been the producing force behind KET’s legislative coverage that has been recognized by the Kentucky Associated Press and the National Educational Telecommunications Association. Under her leadership, KET has expanded its portfolio of public affairs content to include a daily news and information program, Kentucky Supreme Court coverage, townhall-style forums, and multi-platform program initiatives around issues such as opioid addiction and youth mental health.  

Renee has also earned top awards from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), with three regional Emmy awards. In 2023, she was inducted into the Silver Circle of the NATAS, one of the industry’s highest honors recognizing television professionals with distinguished service in broadcast journalism for 25 years or more.  

Already an inductee into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame (2017), Renee expands her hall of fame status with induction into Western Kentucky University’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni in November of 2023.  

In February of 2023, Renee graced the front cover of Kentucky Living magazine with a centerfold story on her 25 years of service at KET and even longer commitment to public media journalism. 

In addition to honors from various educational, civic, and community organizations, Renee has earned top honors from the Associated Press and has twice been recognized by Mental Health America for her years-long dedication to examining issues of mental health and opioid addiction.  

In 2022, she was honored with Women Leading Kentucky’s Governor Martha Layne Collins Leadership Award recognizing her trailblazing path and inspiring dedication to elevating important issues across Kentucky.   

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She has been honored by the AKA Beta Gamma Omega Chapter with a Coretta Scott King Spirit of Ivy Award; earned the state media award from the Kentucky Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 2019; named a Charles W. Anderson Laureate by the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet in 2019 honoring her significant contributions in addressing socio-economic issues; and was recognized as a “Kentucky Trailblazer” by the University of Kentucky Martin School of Public Policy and Administration during the Wendell H. Ford Lecture Series in 2019. That same year, Shaw was named by The Kentucky Gazette’s inaugural recognition of the 50 most notable women in Kentucky politics and government.  

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Mitzi Sinnott’s Journey to Find Father Inspires Play

Mitzi Sinnott’s father left in the 1960s to fight in the Vietnam War before she was even born. When he returned, he was suffering from mental illness, and he left the family again when she was a young child.

Her journey as an adult to find him is told in her one-woman play, “Snapshot: A True Story of Love Interrupted by Invasion.” The Flatwoods, Ky., native recently sat down for an interview on KET’s Connections with Renee Shaw to talk about her play and her experience of growing up as the biracial daughter of a black father and white mother from central Appalachia.

Sinnott lived and worked in New York for years, establishing an after-school arts program at a school there. Sinnott’s mother had made her a photo album with pictures of her father, and through those snapshots, she began to discover him. A musician, he met Sinnott’s mother at a high school dance in Kentucky.

She was asked to take part in an anti-war rally in New York, and from that, she was inspired to create the play. In “Snapshot” Sinnott plays 15 characters, including her father. She wrote the first draft of the play in one night. In the play, she explained, everybody goes back to the past, but part of her father stayed back in Vietnam, Sinnott said.

The opening scene is her father in the barracks. “I never really read that book, ‘Black Power,’ that my dad is holding there, but I did go get it after I had written the scene. And I was like,’ whoa!’ I felt like I really did it justice. Something was channeling divine, something that I had been thinking about, and it just came,” she said.

The play also explores Sinnott’s search for her own identity. She went to a Catholic school in Ironton, Ohio, where her mother’s Irish family had attended. When she switched to a public school, some African-American students thought she was trying to pass as white and harassed her. “They walked down the hall in a line, ‘Who do you think you are?’ What, I’m just trying to go to school,” she recalled.

Looking back, Sinnott said she wished she would have stood up for herself more. The day she spoke up, she said, the harassment stopped. “I remember throwing my alto sax down, and I remember like, ‘What are you going to say?’ That kind of stuff,” she recalled.

Sinnott said her family claimed their mixed heritage. “My mom was one of the first white women in our tri-state area to claim and keep her half-black baby,” she said. “At that time, a lot of women put them up for abortions, adoptions. My mom was like, no, this is love. I’m keeping her. And so with that, everybody had to figure out how we were going to deal with that.” Sinnott believes her mother, a dancer with her own studio, is a role model for others. “Stand up for what you believe–don’t let people take that from you,” she said.

After a long search that took her across the country, Sinnott found her father in 2004, living in a shelter in downtown Honolulu. He continued to live there even after the shelter transitioned to a home for battered women and single mothers. “And the women said, and them all mainly being Polynesian and Asian, they looked at this black man with this Afro as sort of like a guardian,” she said.

Sinnott said while it was good to know that her father was cherished by the women in the shelter, it didn’t make it easier for her not to have her father in her life. “When you are aware how much your mom loved, how much your family loved, I don’t know. You’re like, I want to feel some of that, right?” she said.

When Sinnott returned to Kentucky, someone shared a memory of seeing her father after he’d gotten out of the mental hospital. “She said, ‘Girl, it was like raining, and he laid on the parking lot in a place, and just laid there and let the rain wash him,” Sinnott recalled. She believes her father was in a place of pure, raw emotion.

Since finding her father, Sinnott has found she has more respect and empathy for those with mental illness. “I think my mom thought he was in Honolulu at Don Ho’s club. He did pursue a contract for his band at Don Ho’s nightclub in Waikiki. That’s why we all went there. And I think she thought that he was doing a luau every night. …. He used to play at UK’s dances and he used to be all over the place with his band.”

Sinnott said her father did the best he could with the circumstances he had. “Mental illness — you wish that you could pull them back. I don’t know. There’s not a drug they figured out that can. … You have to come [to them} with this…surrender, and these gloves of kindness.”

Now, Sinnott travels here and abroad performing her play, as well as facilitating a workshop, “What’s Your Story?—Getting to Your Core.” Sinnott hopes to make her play into a feature film. “I would like to bring to light how we deal with the mentally ill,” she said.

By: Joyce West

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A Tribute to Georgia Davis Powers - S11 E18

Premiered On: 02/05/2016

In this special episode, Renee and her guests Raoul Cunningham, president of the Louisville NAACP, and State Sen. Gerald Neal celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer and former Kentucky Sen. Georgia Davis Powers, the first African-American and first woman elected to the Kentucky Senate. Powers died January 30, 2016 at the age of 92. The program features never-before-seen footage of an interview Renee conducted with Powers two years ago. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Wednesday May 8, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
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Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention - S11 E24

Premiered On: 04/08/2016

Jill Seyfred, executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, discusses efforts to increase awareness and prevention of child abuse in the state. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Thursday May 9, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
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Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes - S11 E25

Premiered On: 04/15/2016

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes talks about her legislative agenda and the new online voter registration portal. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Friday May 10, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
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Crystal Wilkinson - S11 E26

Premiered On: 04/22/2016

Affrilachian poet and author Crystal Wilkinson talks about her first novel, "The Birds of Opulence", that tackles the issue of mental illness and the plight of the African American female experience in the South. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Monday May 13, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
  • Monday May 13, 2024 4:30 am CT on KETKY
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Dr. Erin Frazier - S11 E27

Premiered On: 04/29/2016

Renee's guest is Dr. Erin Frazier, a pediatrician with Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville. She also serves as medical director at Children's Hospital Foundation Office of Child Advocacy and chair of the Partnership to Eliminate Child Abuse. Dr. Frazier discusses coping techniques for parents that can prevent child abuse. She specializes in educating parents and caregivers about the dangers of shaking infants and strategies for dealing with persistent crying babies. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Tuesday May 14, 2024 5:31 am ET on KETKY
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  • Tuesday May 14, 2024 1:30 pm CT on KETKY
  • Tuesday May 14, 2024 5:30 pm ET on KETKY
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Gretchen Hunt - S11 E28

Premiered On: 05/06/2016

Renee's guest is Gretchen Hunt, who heads the Office of Victims Advocacy within the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General. She talks about recent legislative successes in protecting women from violent crime. Hunt was a leader in helping to advocate for passage of Kentucky's Human Trafficking Victims Rights Act. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Wednesday May 15, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
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Kishonna Gray - S11 E29

Premiered On: 05/13/2016

Renee's guest is Dr. Kishonna Gray, assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. She is also the founder and director of the Critical Gaming Lab housed in the School of Justice Studies. Dr. Gray also holds a joint position in Women & Gender Studies and is an affiliate faculty in the African/African-American Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests incorporate an intersecting focus on identity, culture, and new media. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Thursday May 16, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
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Oral Health Care In Kentucky - S11 E30

Premiered On: 05/20/2016

Renee and her guests Lacey McNary, a health policy consultant and principal of McNary and Associates and Dr. Laura Hancock Jones, a dentist working with the UK College of Dentistry Public Health Division's Western Kentucky Dental Outreach Program and chair of the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition, discuss the state of oral health in Kentucky. Part of KET's "Inside Oral Health Care" initiative, funded in part by a grant from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. A 2016 KET Production.

  • Friday May 17, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
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Infant Nutrition and Breastfeeding - S10 E42

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Cathe Dykstra - Family Scholar House - S10 E41

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Gigi Butler - Gigi's Cupcakes - S10 E39

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Cathy Zion - Zion Publications LLC - S10 E38

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Josh Nadzam and Tanya Torp - S10 E37

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Amy Goyer - Caregiving - S19 E24

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Susan and Morgan Guess - S10 E34

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Jay Williams - S10 E33

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Kiley Lane Parker - S10 E29

  • Tuesday April 2, 2024 11:30 am ET on KETKY
  • Tuesday April 2, 2024 10:30 am CT on KETKY
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Kevin Chapman - S10 E28

  • Monday April 1, 2024 5:30 pm ET on KETKY
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KCTCS President Ryan Quarles - S19 E20

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Kendell Nash - ECHO - S10 E27

  • Friday March 29, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Friday March 29, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
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Dorothy Edwards and Diane Fleet - S10 E26

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Elaine Chao - S10 E23

  • Wednesday March 27, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Wednesday March 27, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
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Diabetes Epidemic - S10 E20

  • Tuesday March 26, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Tuesday March 26, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
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Mary Gwen Wheeler, 55,000 Degrees - S10 E16

  • Monday March 25, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Monday March 25, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
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Poet and Author Crystal Wilkinson - S19 E22

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  • Sunday March 31, 2024 7:00 am CT on KETKY
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15K Degrees Initiative - S10 E13

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Sister Helen Prejean - S10 E12

  • Thursday March 21, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Thursday March 21, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
  • Thursday March 21, 2024 5:30 am ET on KETKY
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Jefferson County Veterans Treatment Court - S10 E11

  • Wednesday March 20, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Wednesday March 20, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
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Bill Farmer - S10 E8

  • Tuesday March 19, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Tuesday March 19, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
  • Tuesday March 19, 2024 11:30 am ET on KETKY
  • Tuesday March 19, 2024 10:30 am CT on KETKY
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Diane Follingstad - UK Women's Circle Endowment Chair - S10 E6

  • Monday March 18, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Monday March 18, 2024 9:30 pm CT on KETKY
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JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio - S19 E21

  • Saturday March 23, 2024 4:30 pm ET on KETKY
  • Saturday March 23, 2024 3:30 pm CT on KETKY
  • Sunday March 17, 2024 6:00 pm ET on KET2
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Nick Rowe - S19 E14

  • Sunday March 17, 2024 8:00 am ET on KETKY
  • Sunday March 17, 2024 7:00 am CT on KETKY
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Kevin Chapman - S10 E5

  • Friday March 15, 2024 10:30 pm ET on KETKY
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