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Follow Your Curiosity is a podcast about creativity—how it works, how it shows up in real life, and how people find their way into it.
Each episode is an unscripted, curiosity-driven conversation. We start at the beginning and see where the story, the connections, and the questions take us.
Twice a month, you’ll hear in-depth conversations with people from all kinds of backgrounds about their creative lives: how they got started, what shaped them, and what they’ve discovered along the way. Some guests are widely known, others less so—but all of them offer a window into the many different ways creativity works and what it means to the people living it.
In the alternating weeks, you’ll hear short Creative Pep Talk episodes with ideas, tools, or reflections you can take into your own creative life.
Following my own curiosity sometimes leads me into unexpected places—including conversations connected to Doctor Who and the people who bring those stories to life, in front of and behind the scenes.
Every episode stands on its own, so you can start wherever you like.
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Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
My guest today is Kate Powers, a lifelong theatre kid who became an off-Broadway and regional theatre director. Her list of credits is long, but I wanted to talk to Kate about the unusual home she’s found for her work: maximum security prisons. Kate is the founding artistic director of the Redeeming Time Project, which uses Shakespeare to effect positive change for the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated. She has been a facilitator with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (www.rta-arts.org) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility since 2009.
Kate tells me how she discovered this work, how she runs her program, and the transformative effect of combining Shakespeare—famous for his depictions of all facets of human nature—with a prison population. I’m not gonna lie to you—I had goosebumps for most of this interview, and I think you might, too. If you do, I hope you’ll consider donating to help these programs transform lives—you’ll find a list of links in the show notes.
Please leave a review of the show, and in it, tell us about a time when theater transformed a part of your life.
Want more? Here's a handy playlist with all my previous interviews with guests in theatre!
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