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Additional authors

1. Taymor, Julie, 1952-
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer
11. City University of New York
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Designer and director of theater and film Julie Taymor discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Taymor's interest in the theater developed at an early age. At eleven she became involved with the Boston's Children's Theatre, and at 16 went to Paris to study with at the mime school of Jacques Lecoq. Taymor speaks about her design and direction of many global productions of The lion king since it first opened on Broadway in 1997. She discusses the challenge of translating not only the language of the show, but also adapting the humor to suit audiences of various cultures, and how she was able to achieve her artistic vision while working for its corporate producers, the Disney Company. Taymor speaks about her travels in Sri Lanka and Indonesia; her studies in mythology and folklore at Oberlin College; her direction of the 2002 motion picture Frida, about the artist Frida Kahlo, and Titus (1999), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, on which she collaborated with her partner of over 20 years, composer Elliot Goldenthal; her work in the opera; and her status as the first woman to receive a Tony Award for directing a musical.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Theater > Production and direction
2. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
3. Talk shows
4. Taymor, Julie, 1952- > Interviews
5. Women theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
6. Television
7. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
8. Costume designers > Interviews
9. Interviews
10. Theater > New York (State) > New York
11. Women in the theater

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2046

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Sept. 22, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, March 19, 2004.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Julie Taymor [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2004.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Sept. 22, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, March 19, 2004.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Taymor, Julie, 1952- interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2046