Hadestown director Rachel Chavkin won “Best Direction of a Musical” at the TonyAwards. Here’s how she stays motivated and leads a team
Illustration: Lauren Tamaki Rachel Chavkin was the only woman nominated for Best Director in this year’s Tony awards, for her work on Hadestown, and she won! She delivered a moving, powerful speech about diversity in theater on Sunday night’s awards ceremony. “There are so many women who are ready to go. There are so many artists of color who are ready to go. And we need to see that racial diversity and gender diversity reflected in our critical establishment, too,” she said in her speech.
I’m just beginning to show and even then you sort of have to be looking for it. It depends on what I’m wearing but I did get given a seat today and I enjoy that enormously. In London, they actually have a thing where you get a badge you can wear for specifically the purpose of public transportation so people [will know you are pregnant and] can give you their seats. It’s a core value of that city. I’ve never seen anything but immediate response to pregnant lady wearing one of those badges.
I feel set up constantly for failure on that front because the room can always be more inclusive, because no one is just one of anything. The Venn diagram is constantly overlapping in such beautiful ways. I want to be very clear that I don’t ever claim victory, it’s an aspiration and I think it’s an endless one.I’m very good at delegating. I feel very passionately about this. The way a new musical operates in particular, there are too many departments for one person to be in control of it all.
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