Design Matters from the Archive: Thomas Kail
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
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🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Debbie talks to Hamilton director Thomas Kail about his career and about the joys of collaboration.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:08.0 | We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
| 0:14.0 | Please visit survey. |
| 0:16.0 | PRX.org slash design matters to take the survey today. |
| 0:20.0 | That's survey. |
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| 0:22.0 | slash design matters.org. Slash Design Matters. |
| 0:24.4 | Thanks. |
| 0:25.4 | Design Matters is on summer break and will return with new interviews this fall. |
| 0:30.4 | In the meantime, we're playing some archival episodes. |
| 0:33.0 | This one with Thomas Kale is from October 2017. |
| 0:37.0 | This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from design observer.com. |
| 0:45.0 | For 13 years now, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other |
| 0:51.0 | creative types about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about. |
| 0:56.0 | On this podcast, Debbie Millman talks with the director of Hamilton, Thomas Kale, about his career and about the joys of collaboration. I learned not only how much bigger the |
| 1:05.1 | world was than my little group of friends but there were people that were going to make |
| 1:08.4 | things that I would never be able to make and I welcomed that. Here's Debbie Millman. You could say that directing a musical is a form of design and the materials are music, lyrics and human performers. Thomas Kale has directed some of the most memorable |
| 1:24.9 | musical theater experiences of our time including In The Heights and |
| 1:30.0 | Hamilton. His collaborations with Lynn Manuel Miranda are now the stuff of legend, as are the |
| 1:36.3 | shows he's created on his own. He joins me to talk about his extraordinary life and career, Thomas Cal |
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