She Interviews Directors

Part: XV Moises Kaufman Hometown: Caracas , Venezuela Current Town: New York, NY MOISÉS KAUFMAN was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in September.    He is also a Tony and Emmy-nominated director and playwright. Broadway credits include  The Heiress  with Jessica Chastain ; 33 Variations  (which he also wrote) with Jane Fonda (5 Tony nominations); Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize finalist  Bengal Tiger   at the Baghdad Zoo  with Robin Williams; and the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play  I Am My Own Wife .    His plays,  Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde  and  The Laramie Project , are among the most performed plays in America over the last decade. Kaufman also co-wrote and directed the film adaptation of  The Laramie Project  for HBO, which received two Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer. He is currently directing and wr...

Part: XIV Peter J. Kuo Hometown: South Pasadena, CA Current Town: New York, NY PETER J. KUO is a theatre director, producer, and writer. He is a co-founder of Artists at Play, a theatre collective that produces Los Angeles premieres of works for Asian Americans. For Artists at Play, he directed their inaugural production of Lauren Yee's Ching Chong Chinaman ( Backstage Critic's Pick), and Michael Golamco's Cowboy Versus Samurai ; as well as readings of Boni Alvarez's Marabella , Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman , and Donald Margulies' Dinner with Friends . He has served as a director and assistant director at South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, East West Players, HB Studios, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Play Company. Tell me about MUTT: Let’s All Talk About Race : It’s 2013, Obama has just been re-elected, and The Republican Party finally realizes it has a problem with race. In an attempt ...

Part XIII Pitr Strait Hometown: Oak Park, IL Current Town: Brooklyn, NY Pitr Strait is a New York-based director and teacher. After graduating from The New School's MFA program, he co-founded Torn Out Theater with Alice Mottola in 2016. Prior to his work with Torn Out, he has directed numerous works by William Shakespeare, Caryl Churchill, and Don Nigro. His film work includes directing words & actions , a short film written by Allan Staples; and co-writing the story for Alexis and Bodine Boling's feature film Movement + Location , winner of Best Screenplay at the 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival. Pitr's education work includes both graduate and undergraduate classes at The New School, as well as Concordia Language Villages' French immersion programs. Tell me about   Hamlet : Hamlet , I mean, it’s only the most famous play in the English language. It’s a terrifying thing to try and sum up, let alone produce. Obviously, there are as many diffe...