Bite-sized blog post: Jill Campbell

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JILL CAMPBELL is a playwright and producer who directed the documentary The Hamlet of Canfield Gardens (2016) about her mentor playwright and poet Bernard Kops.

She “began her career running lines with Morgan Freeman and the Public Theatre.”

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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Elisabeth Sperling

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ELISABETH SPERLING has an MA from Columbia Teacher’s College and has been working in documentary filmmaking since 2005.

She co-directed One Night Stand (2011) with Trish Dalton which documents the creative process pf a group of Broadway and TV professionals participating in a 24 hour play event for charity.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

ONE NIGHT STAND WEBSITE

Bite-sized blog post: Julie Taymor

CAPTION: Julie Taymor, photographed in New York, NY on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (PHOTOGRAPH BY MARCUS YAM) All rights reserved. Photograph may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of MARCUS YAM Photography. Please call +1.716.400.9363 or email CONTACT@MARCUSYAM.COM to inquire about any reproduction of this image.

As the first woman to win a Tony for Best Director for a musical with The Lion King it is no surprise that JULIE TAYMOR’s films are theatrical and visually elaborate.

Her first theatrical narrative feature film was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus starring Anthony Hopkins

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

NETFLIX

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Makers
Find her on Twitter
Variety
Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Nights Dream
TED Talk
Julie Taymor on The Lion King and Her Creative Process
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2010/IThe Tempest
 2002Frida
 1999Titus

 1993Great Performances (TV Series) (1 episode)

Oedipus Rex (1993)
 1992Fool’s Fire (TV Movie)