Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymoris an American director of theater, opera and film. She is best known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 December 1952
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
broadway woman women won
There's never been a woman that won it, so we don't know, there may never be. But there have not been that many women on Broadway directing, period.
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I have had a lot of experience directing actors so although this is my first feature film, it's certainly not my first time directing with big stars.
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We feel that Grendel is very, very potent as to where we are today, which may not be any different than where we were in the 10th Century.
people
This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.
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After I had received the Watson Fellowship and had been two years in Indonesia on this traveling fellowship, I stayed to start my own theater company.
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We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
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In today's world, it's more relevant than ever. It's about how do we look at the world from the outsider's point of view, from the monster's point of view.
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I had spent a lot of my life in other cultures. I spent four years in Indonesia. I traveled through Japan. ... I have seen theater practiced in these ways before: mask theater, puppet theater.
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I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.
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Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.
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One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.
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Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power ... but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.
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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
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I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.