She 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’d been playing Cassius in a production of “Julius Caesar” at Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill until the production was cut short due to the spread of Covid-19.

In 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.