Robert and Nataki share their experiences directing stories of enslavement, transitioning from performance to leadership, and being an artist during the paradigm shift we’re experiencing today.

Nataki Garrett is Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s sixth artistic director. As the former associate artistic director of CalArts Center for New Performance, Garrett has been hailed as a champion of new work as well as an experienced, savvy arts administrator. 2019 was Garrett’s first season at OSF, where she directed How to Catch Creation. At CalArts, Garrett oversaw all operations of conservatory training and produced mainstage, black box, developmental projects, plays, co-productions and touring productions. She is currently on the nominating committee for The Kilroys, and she recently served on the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Distinguished Playwright Award nominating committee and the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship panel.

📚 References:

Brandon Jacob-Jenkins’s “An Octoroon” https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=5049

Read more about Dominique Morisseau’s “Confederates” https://www.blackburnprize.org/home/finalists-2020/dominique-morisseau/

Read more about Katori Hall’s “Pussy Valley” https://www.playbill.com/article/katori-hall-takes-on-strip-clubs-power-sex-and-the-south-in-her-explosive-new-series-p-valley

Read Alesha Harris’s “Is God Is” http://www.3holepress.org/is-god-is

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Elizabeth Greenfield

Audio Engineer: Paul Doyle

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise