

After inheriting the family home built by her grandfather, a gifted but guarded musician is drawn into a surreal musical realm where her late grandmother’s spirit urges her to mend the family’s rift and confront the grief embedded in their bloodline.

“Music feels like the connective tissue I share with my grandmother”

Numina opens with the arpeggios of a song.
“There’s a stowaway in my spirit and I don’t wanna hear it…”
Once alone in the house, Josephine sits down to sing that same song. It’s been calling to her…plaguing her for months.
INSPIRATION for the numinascape
“Barbra Streissand and Judy Garland’s performance of Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again has lingered with me since I was a teenager. The way both songs and singers maintain their autonomy. Yet, together create something wholly new.”
“I am a Black woman. The music of my song, some sweet arpeggio of tears, is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night...can be heard humming in the night...”
- Mari Evans
In Numina, we’ve created our own arrangements of It Had to Be You and Roses of Yesterday (Both of which recently entered the public domain.) Unlike the Barbra and Judy arrangement, ours is more melancholy, more wistful, more dissonant, more hungry and haunting.
For the feature movie musical we’re looking to have a blend of classic music, soul, and new songs reflecting the blend of the past, present, and future in the house.

DEAR EDWINA JR with the School of Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC)
“When it came time to invite a collaborator to join me and bring the short version of NUMINA and subsequent feature film to life, Julia Greer, my childhood neighbor and friend came to mind. We both fell in love with art and storytelling in a small, yet vibrant theater community in Richmond, Virginia. One of my earliest mixtapes was a compilation of Julia’s favorite Broadway songs and the first show I was ever cast in, we performed together.”
CREATIVE TEAM
WRITER/DIRECTOR
Spencer Jamison
Producer
Julia Greer
pRODUCEr
Jai Jamison
