Julie Taymor
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"Julie Taymor" is an American director of theatre, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She also received the 2012 Director Award for Vision and Courage from the [http://athenafilmfestival.com Athena Film Festival] at Barnard College in New York City. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King (musical)/The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She was the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and in 2013, the acclaimed off-Broadway production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

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This is just spectacular, spectacular.

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

I had spent a lot of my life in other cultures. I spent four years in Indonesia. I traveled through Japan. ... I have seen theater practiced in these ways before: mask theater, puppet theater.

There's never been a woman that won it, so we don't know, there may never be. But there have not been that many women on Broadway directing, period.

In today's world, it's more relevant than ever. It's about how do we look at the world from the outsider's point of view, from the monster's point of view.