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Podcast: In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast
Episode: Julie Taymor
Description: Julie Taymor is a legendary multidisciplinary artist, with inspirations so varied it becomes difficult to classify her. Identifying primarily as a director, she’s also written, produced, composed music, and designed her celebrated stage and screen productions. Her advice for fellow storytellers: embrace limitations, combine mediums, travel the world, and “find something that you’re really, really passionate about.”
Julie won directing and costuming Tony Awards for her screen-to-Broadway adaptation of Disney’s “The Lion King” (the highest-grossing entertainment title in box office history), and earned acclaim for film adaptations of “Titus” and “The Tempest,” “Across the Universe,” and “Frida,” which earned her an original s...