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My main interest is in cultivating my company.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Cultivating
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I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Adventurous
Careful
Figure
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What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Understood
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Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Professional Life
Steppenwolf
Life Always Everything
Center
Professional
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Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Amy
Machines
Missing
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If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Point Of View
Attached
Exists
Objectively
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I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Girly
Myself Me People
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I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Raises
Per
Role Model
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I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Good Myself Bad
Speaker
Pretty Good
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Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Destroy
Everyone Else
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I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Companion
Criticism
Warning
Experience Money Your
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I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Sisterhood
Me Feel Nothing
Playwrights
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The one thing that never changes in America is that the white straight male is born with a promise. Women are not promised very much, and we embody our disappointment from the beginning.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Disappointment
Promise
Women Are
Male
Embody
The One Thing
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Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Degrees
Peanut Butter
White
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Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Delight
Disappear
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I'm getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I'm much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn't have anything to do with a conversation about the world.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Paralysis
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I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories that will move, provoke, and change people. But I became a director because I wanted to be a part of the world.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Believe
Moving
Views
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I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Include
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The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
Anna D. Shapiro / Theatre Director
Conversation
Human Behavior
Math
Versus
Wide
Anything Else
Wide World
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