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Podcast: The Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales
Episode: Christopher Ashley: Tony Award Winning Director and Mastermind behind La Jolla Playhouse
Description: Tony winning director Christopher Ashley is best know for various shows including Come From Away, Memphis, Xanadu, and All Shook Up and is the artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. In this episode, he speaks about his time at Yale as a math major who spent a lot of time in the theatre department. We discuss his career as a Broadway director, which eventually lead him to a Tony Award for best direction of a musical for Come From Away (and even how it is going to be made into a film!). Christopher spe...