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“When I think of the emerging directors whose work I’ve admired over the last year, Charlotte Brathwaite easily stands out as someone from whom I’ve come to expect great things. Smart, efficient, and inventive, Charlotte is a problem-solver, able to turn potential limitations into surprising assets. She has a generous spirit and good-humor that endears her to actors, but also a confident and firm hand that immediately garners respect from everyone involved in a project. It may sound simple but at the end of the day the work is ultimately what matters, and Charlotte is someone who puts the work first. Her clarity of vision and wealth of creativity combine to reinforce her astounding ability to develop new plays. I’m very much looking forward to seeing where the coming years take her and her tremendous talent.”

-Mimi O’Donnell, artistic director of Labyrinth Theater and director of currently-running The Way West

 

HER CURRENT SHOW
Charlotte is also directing a reading of a new Japanese play at the Japan Society in NYC.
 

 

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT. 

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”