Lisa Wolpe
b'Lisa Wolpe is not only one of this country\\u2019s finest Shakespearean actors, specializing in playing the Bard\\u2019s male characters. The founder of the Los Angeles Women\\u2019s Shakespeare Company and its artistic director for 23 years until she decided to fold it in 2016, she has also become an internationally renowned Shakespeare scholar and now teaches in universities all over the world while also touring her one-woman show, \\u201cShakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender.\\u201d\\n\\nShe spoke with Rob Kramer and Pier Carlo Talenti from her home in Santa Monica. She had returned only two weeks earlier from North Carolina, where she\\u2019d been playing Cassius in a production of \\u201cJulius Caesar\\u201d at Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill until the production was cut short due to the spread of Covid-19.\\nIn this interview she discusses the passion for truth and justice that has steered her through her career as an actor, director and producer. She also imagines the kind of arts leadership and creative spirit that will guide artists and their audiences to a changed artistic landscape on the other side of the pandemic.\\xa0\\n\\nhttps://lisawolpe.com/'