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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E10. Writing Your Narrative w. Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Description: Episode number 10, with playwright, Tarrell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney on living freely: “I’m starting a new chapter where I try to live and be as free as possible rather than be chained to survival mode.”
What makes a person become a writer? An Academy award-winning, playwright, actor and co-writer of the 2016 film ‘Moonlight,’ Tarell Alvin McCraney likens writing more as a survival instinct, rather than a calling. Growing up with a constant feeling that change was imminent, Tarell found a way to take hold of that narrative, and rewrite it.
Tarell began writ...