Producing Heroes with Ed Bartlam

07/28/20 • 44 min

Ed Bartlam is a founder and Director of Underbelly and has built a massive presence at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and on London’s Southbank as well as producing on the West End and in Hong Kong. The company is known for its sense of adventure, healthy appetite for risk and incredible shows. Ed talks to us about following your gut instinct, fostering and investing in relationships and how he came to own a venue shaped like an upside-down purple cow.

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Producing Heroes with Linda Brumbach

Linda Brumbach founded Pomegranate Arts in 1998, a company dedicated to developing, producing and touring innovative contemporary performance arts projects through creative collaborations. Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced the Olivier Award winning production of Einstein on the Beach (Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs), Shockheaded Peter (The Improbably Theater), Book of Longing (Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass), Dracula: The Music and Film (Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass and Universal Pictures), Hal Willners’ Came So Far from Beauty (Leonard Cohen and guests), Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation (Dalai Lama, Tom Waits, Anoushka Shankar) and most recently Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music. Linda joins us from New York to talk about engaging deeply with artists, having the right people on your team, fearlessly serving a vision and just when you think it can’t possibly happen, finding a creative solution.