Hearthside Salons with PageCraftWriting
Society & Culture
Do you ever watch a kid reacting to life with joy and think, man, I wish I could still be moved like that. Some creators never lose their wonder in looking at the world. Some of those people become puppeteers. I talk with Leslie Carrara-Rudolph - AKA Sesame Street’s Abby Cadabby, who says that if you believe enough in your stuff, you suck people into your world.
We talk about Leslie's inspirations and mentors including Carol Burnett and the curtains sketch, Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori who got a Tony for Fun Home, Chuck McCann, Paula Pell and Parallel Lives, and Stephen Adly Guirgis.
We talk about fellow puppeteer and writer Liz Hara's Hearthside episode. And other things we recommend including the book Lies My Teacher Told Me and Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Case For Reparations among others in anti-racism work.
More from Leslie on Lolly's Instagram.
As always, more information on PageCraft Writing's screenwriting workshops, feedback, and community is here.
Joan Burney - MBE, Producer, CEO - Peace Through the Audacity of Creativity
Emma Ferreira - Visual Artist - The Beauty of Audacity
Ghizal Hasan - Writer, Sportscaster - Eye on the Curveball
Carla Renata - Actress, Singer, The Curvy Critic - Listen For What's Good
Clarissa Jacobson - Writer, Producer - Short Film Strategy
Asdru Sierra - Musician, Composer, Ambassador - Ozomatli
Samantha Pestana-Markey - Filmmaker, Costume Designer - "I'm [Not] OK"
Lynn Ferguson - Storyteller, Writer - The Story Is The Connection
Katy Haber - Film Executive - Real Riches: Not Your Average Charity Work
Katy Haber - Film Executive - Saving Bladerunner and Other Stories From a Life in Film
Katy Haber - Film Executive - Finding Family Roots Buried by WW2
Liberty Worth - Textile Designer/Artist - Story Threads: Holding Space for Grief
Robin Russin - Writer, Professor - The Reinvention of the Modern Writer
Jessica Burgess, JT Schindler - Filmmakers - Fatima: women's stories/male gaze
Suzanne Lyons - Indie Producer/Author/Instructor - The Craft of Low Budget Filmmaking (pt 2)
Suzanne Lyons - Indie Producer/Author/Instructor - The Craft of Low Budget Filmmaking (pt 1)
Nicholas Griffin - Screenwriter, Instructor - Breaking In: The Truth of Hollywood Success
Lindsay Lanzillotta - Producer, Distributor - Indie Film & Cracking the Distribution Nut
Christina Kotlar - Writer/Director - Film Town 1910: When Hollywood was in Jersey and the studio owner was a woman
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