Tamilla Woodard, Director, Co-Artistic Director of the Working Theater

06/20/20 • 23 min

Tamilla Woodard studied in the acting program at Yale. Now she is the Co-Artistic Director of the Working Theater, Associate Director of the Tony-award winning Broadway musical Hadestown and a prolific artist. In this moment, the theaters are closed and will likely remain closed for months to come. What happens to the people who create art? In this interview we discuss the Yale Cabaret, social justice, Donetta Lavinia Grays’ Where We Stand, and the nature of grief and joy in New York.

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Yuri Cataldo studied design at the Yale School of Drama. Now his title is Innovation Designer at Autodesk. In between he’s started a water company, designed an MBA-level program for a college and written a book about cryptocurrency. What does it mean to be a theater designer? What do you do when your life as a designer doesn’t work out as planned? And what does any of this have to do with Andrew Yang and voting rights. In a wide-ranging interview, I speak with Yuri about design, media, and entrepreneurship.

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Michael Walkup, Dramaturg, Artistic Director, Page 73

Michael Walkup studied Dramaturgy at Yale and is now the Artistic Director of Page 73 whose mission is to nurture emerging playwrights. He recently helped to bring forward Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Play, A Strange Loop. We recorded this interview in the beginning of May, before George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s murder and the groundswell of action and discussion related to race in America. Nevertheless, as we discuss A Strange Loop, we discuss race as well as sex, sexuality, violence and the responsibilities and possibilities presented to an artistic director.