Juliette Carrillo & Nataki Garrett in Conversation

Nataki Garrett is an accomplished writer, director and producer of Stage, Opera, Film and XR/VR. Garrett has a passion for new and innovative work. She co-wrote and directed The Carolyn Bryant Project which premiered at REDCAT. She has directed and produced world premieres by some of the most important playwrights of our time, including Katori Hall, Branden Jacobs- Jenkins, Karen Zacarias, Dominique Morriseau and Aziza Barnes. A change-maker and trailblazer, and nationally recognized Artistic Leader at Large, Garrett was the sixth Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), one of the few women of color in the country to lead a major theater company and OSF’s first Black female in this role.

Juliette Carrillo is a nationally recognized theatre director, writer, award-winning filmmaker from Los Angeles, CA, and Associate Professor of Directing at UC Irvine. She has directed plays and musicals at the Denver Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theater, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Magic Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Arizona Theater Company, and the Actor's Theatre of Louisville.

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