#372: Cristina Lundy // Hamilton Broadway's Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Cristina Lundy is currently Hamilton Broadway's Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor. Cristina has been doing theatre since she was ten years old, and started working in her costume shop in college. But she’s always been, as she says, “costuming herself” as a form of self expression. Cristina is also the artistic director of the New York Shakespeare Exchange, an independent Shakespeare company with a focus on inclusion and a mission to stop gatekeeping Shakespeare (even if you’re the one gatekeeping yourself, which tends to happen with the Bard).
This week we talk about everything from the phenomenal clothes and aesthetic of Mad Men, to what makes a good director, the gospel of Taylor Swift, and we contributed to the endless effort to burn down the patriarchy… among other things.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilkass. |
| 0:05.1 | Bootsing, cut, sent, bussing. |
| 0:18.8 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to The Hamilkass. I'm Jillian, and today, |
| 0:22.8 | oh man, I'm so excited. I'm here with Christina Lundy. You are currently Hamilton Broadway's |
| 0:28.4 | Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor. Hey, Christina. Hi, Jillian. Thanks for being here. I'm so excited. |
| 0:33.8 | Yes, I'm very excited for the chat today. Before we do anything else, can you please tell me your |
| 0:38.4 | pronouns? My pronouns are she, her, hers. Thank you so much. Additionally, you are the artistic |
| 0:43.7 | director for and on the board of the New York Shakespeare Exchange. Yes, New York Shakespeare |
| 0:48.4 | Exchange is an indie Shakespeare company that was founded by Ross Williams in 2010 was when they |
| 0:57.7 | started doing public-facing work. The business planning started about a year prior to that, |
| 1:04.8 | and then I joined the company as Associate Artistic Director in 2011, and that was my position |
| 1:10.3 | until 2020, when, right, like, right before COVID hit, the plan was for me to transition into |
| 1:18.0 | co-artistic directorship with Ross, and then in the end of 2021, we started the transition to |
| 1:25.2 | me shifting into sole artistic directorship. So now we're in a period. We've done a lot in the |
| 1:31.4 | 10 years or so leading up to that that I was Associate AD, and now very generously on Ross's |
| 1:38.4 | part as the founder is saying, you need to figure out what this company looks like as your company |
| 1:44.0 | moving forward. So I'm in the thick of figuring that out right now and figuring out what my priorities |
| 1:49.7 | are programming wise and how I want things to work structurally going forward. So yeah, we've got |
| 1:56.1 | a lot behind us. It's still to be determined what lies have had of us, but we're in this kind of |
| 2:01.1 | transitional phase. Oh my god, that's so amazing. I didn't think we were going to get to that so |
| 2:06.5 | quickly, but can we dive into that? I mean, you must. Let's maybe go into your Shakespeare experience |
| 2:12.9 | like whenever. Yeah, I'm excited, and the peeps definitely have questions. Yeah, of course. So |
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