Richard and Shawn continue their rich conversation by exploring some of the role diversity plays in the Chicago acting community. We’ll also hear Shawn’s take on the idea of “non-traditional” casting.

Plus, Chicago Public Radio film contributor Jonathan Miller discusses the trappings we create from the mundane to the manditory as seen through film.

See the exhibition Traps at the Extension Gallery For Architecture in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

Originally aired March 21, 2007, on Eight Forty-Eight.