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Is:
The first theater director to win this award.

Also loves:
Chili, Facebook, golfing.

Tries to:
“Find the fear in the room, because it’s always there and it’s always an obstacle to
moving forward—and when I’m stuck, I know I must have missed it.”

Unlike so many people who wind up working in theater, Valerie Curtis-Newton did not feel the gravitational pull of the stage as a child. She was dragged into theater first by an acquaintance at College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts…

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Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....