I came up with the idea to do a reading series of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, which is this beautiful story about how Capote spends Christmas with his cousin. It’s where I figured out who I am and what I wanted to make.ĭeath of Klinghoffer (1991), Black Rider (1993), and Still/Here (1994) were some of the first performances David Binder attended at BAMĭavid: I had been in New York just a little over a year, and I was itching to do something of my own. It’s at BAM where I met and fell in love with Pina Bausch, the Maly Theatre, and Cheek By Jowl. The Death of Klinghoffer, The Hard Nut, Still/Here, The Black Rider. That’s where I met John Cameron Mitchell, who I ended up spending the next 20 years with, working on a show that became Hedwig and the Angry Inch.ĭavid: My dear friend Karen Fricker, who is now the theater critic for the Toronto Star, was taking her university students to BAM performances, and she always had an extra ticket. I worked as a PA on a play called The Sum of Us at the Cherry Lane it starred Tony Goldwyn, who is now starring in Ivo van Hove’s Network, which I’m producing. I was in the costume shop running errands for the legendary designer William Ivey Long on Assassins-even though I couldn’t sew. I also remember seeing Mark Morris in a long wig, dancing with a remote-controlled Tonka truck! After college I moved to New York to work on Broadway, not knowing exactly what I wanted to do. Jones with Arnie! I feel so lucky to have seen that. When I went to UC Berkeley, I spent a lot of time at Cal Performances. Once in a while, a great play would come to town I remember seeing the Royal Shakespeare Company’s epic Nicholas Nickleby in 1986, or the Broadway company version of Fences, but mostly it was about big touring shows. See, I grew up in Los Angeles, where I was mostly exposed to musicals-you know, the barricade-busting, chandelier-dropping kind. What did you mean by that?ĭavid Binder: When you’re moving through life, it’s impossible to see how the dots will connect, but looking back, you can see how perfectly they align. Katy Clark: You once told me that while you didn’t know it at the time, your career, as varied and winding as it has been, has been preparing you to come to BAM the whole time. BAM President Katy Clark recently spoke to David on the brink of the announcement of his first Next Wave. In January 2019, David Binder assumed the role of BAM’s Artistic Director, succeeding Executive Producer Joseph V.
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