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.
Drea Clark - Producer, Festival Programmer - Laurels: Pursuing Festival Success
Sarah Moshman - Documentarian, Author - Empowered Filmmaking
Rebecca Field - Actor - A Star is Made: Just Do the Work
Sara Nesson - Oscar-Nominated Writer/Director/Producer - PosterGirl Persistence
Voices of Persistence: Filmmakers Behind Films on Inez Milholland and the American Suffrage Movement
Jeff Rona - Composer - Storytelling in Music: the Art and Tech of a Film Score
Lauren Over - Visual Artist - Taking the Commercial into the Fantastical
Meg Gifford - Writer, Chemistry Professor - The Scientific and Creative Mind (working with Lew Hunter)
Peres Owino -Writer, Actor, Director, Producer - Now the Lions Write the Story of the Hunt
Zaki Rubenstein - Writer/Director/Actor - Turning Real Life into Screen Gold
The creators of comedy series No Actor Parking on making Hollywood work for you
Josh Greenberg - Writer - Tales from the Writers Room
Wanjiru Njendu - Writer, Director, 2020 Academy Member - What do you stand for? Risk and reward in filmmaking.
Tricia Nelson - Writer - Black Films Matter: Essential Viewing
Ellen Gerstein - Actor/Writer - How to claim your inner artist without exploding
Paul Goodenough - Writer/Producer/Eco-entrepreneur - Freaks, Heroes, and Futureshift
Monia Ayachi - Actor/Director/Producer/Singer/Songwriter - Between worlds, the artist belongs to all worlds
Michael Mack - Writer, Actor, Director - Euripides, Cervantes, Jim Crow
Durga McBroom - Singer, Songwriter - Pandemic, Riots, and Murder Hornets - The perfect cradle for creativity
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