(Highlights) TAL HEVER-CHYBOWSKI

(Highlights) TAL HEVER-CHYBOWSKI

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Director of the Paris Yiddish Center (Maison de la Culture Yiddish) & Medem Library

A lot of people in my family and among my friends when they heard that I study Yiddish and that later made it my livelihood, they are very surprised. Yiddish? How come Yiddish? Why Yiddish? They even laugh sometimes, they are very surprised. And what I answer to them is that there is nothing surprising about the fact that I study or speak Yiddish. The real surprise, the real question that has to be asked is how come my parents, this last generation, didn’t speak Yiddish? Because, if you consider my family, for hundreds of years on all sides they spoke Yiddish.

TAL HEVER-CHYBOWSKI

TAL HEVER-CHYBOWSKI

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Director of the Paris Yiddish Center (Maison de la Culture Yiddish) & Medem Library

A lot of people in my family and among my friends when they heard that I study Yiddish and that later made it my livelihood, they are very surprised. Yiddish? How come Yiddish? Why Yiddish? They even laugh sometimes, they are very surprised. And what I answer to them is that there is nothing surprising about the fact that I study or speak Yiddish. The real surprise, the real question that has to be asked is how come my parents, this last generation, didn’t speak Yiddish? Because, if you consider my family, for hundreds of years on all sides they spoke Yiddish.

(Highlights) AVRA SIDIROPOULOU

(Highlights) AVRA SIDIROPOULOU

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Author & Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company

Unless it starts from within you, then you’re not going to set the same amount of investment. So there are moments when I feel I’m suffocating within the limits of those roles I have to play, and sometimes I feel like I’m failing them all. I’m always on the lookout for the next thing to quench the desire to create.

AVRA SIDIROPOULOU

AVRA SIDIROPOULOU

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Author & Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company

Unless it starts from within you, then you’re not going to set the same amount of investment. So there are moments when I feel I’m suffocating within the limits of those roles I have to play, and sometimes I feel like I’m failing them all. I’m always on the lookout for the next thing to quench the desire to create.

DOUG WRIGHT

DOUG WRIGHT

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Playwright & President of the Dramatists Guild of America

I think we have to look to find the voices of women and marginalized people because sometimes it's the most disenfranchised people in the culture that are the most articulate about it and most aware of the innate injustice in certain social systems. So I think we really have examine our canon and broaden and deepen it to include more voices.

(Highlights) KATE MUETH

(Highlights) KATE MUETH

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Actress, Choreographer, Artistic Director - Neo-Political Cowgirls

I care very deeply about the arts, theater arts. So I had a choice to make, either leave entirely or be the change, as they say. So I started Neo-Political Cowgirls to embrace women in their story, in our story.

KATE MUETH

KATE MUETH

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Actress, Choreographer, Artistic Director - Neo-Political Cowgirls

I care very deeply about the arts, theater arts. So I had a choice to make, either leave entirely or be the change, as they say. So I started Neo-Political Cowgirls to embrace women in their story, in our story.