157 - Rebecca Taichman - a podcast by Ken Davenport

Rebecca Taichman is a theatre director. In 2017 she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Indecent. She is an affiliated artist at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C, where she has directed Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (2008), The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline (2011). She has directed several Shakespeare plays at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Other plays she has directed include Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Scene, Milk Like Sugar, The Oldest Boy, Familiar, and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage.

Through years of determination, steadfastness, ego-checking, and intense collaboration, she took her wisp of an idea . . . and forged it into a Broadway play called Indecent. And then the universe thanked her with a Tony. Tune in to hear what kept her going through those years, as well as:

How being objective about her performing and writing is one of the reasons she’s a success.

What question she asks herself about a play before she signs on to direct it.

Straddling the line between wanting to direct great plays while trying to make a living.

What it’s like on her first day of rehearsal.

The difference between being a woman director yesterday . . . and today.  Has it changed?


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