I Interview Directors Part I: Glynis Rigsby Glynis Rigsby Hometown: Torrance, CA Current Town: Brooklyn, NY Tell me about Spreading Canvas : A dear friend of mine, Eleanor Hughes, called me up one day in the mid-90’s to tell me that she was at the Huntington Library reading plays from the Larpent Collection, an archive of almost every play submitted to the London censor between 1737 and 1824 . She was researching material for her Phd dissertation on 18 th century British Marine Painting and had discovered a trove of plays with excerpts dramatizing naval battles. She is now the Associate Director of the Walters Museum in Baltimore and last week, she opened an exhibition at the Yale Center of British Art called “Spreading Canvas” based on that research. I just received the catalog for it and it’s gorgeous. As part of the opening of the exhibition, she asked Yale to bring me in to direct some of the naval excerpts so we headed up to New Haven