Spencer Williams and Lilan Bowden go way back. Improv troupe, poetry workshops, each other's childhood homes... This week, they follow the thread from college to craft, exploring what it means to pursue a vocation versus a title, how poetry workshopping taught them to let work speak without the maker in the room, and why Spencer's experiential theater gives audiences something most art never does: something wholly, concretely their own to keep.
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