Transcript of Michele Lowe
Michele Lowe: Music is a very, very big part of my life and music is very, very important to the work that I'm doing. And what's fun about that is a sound designer, a good sound designer like Lindsey Jones, who I worked with on Inana, the first thing he'll say to me, "Okay, what do you got? What were you listening to? What's in your head?" And we'll never, ever use what's in my head but he'll get a sense of what the music is of the play, not just of the language of the play but the music of the play and then he takes that and just brings his own sense to that and it's just so thrilling for me to hear his vision. I never have thought about directing my own work for that very reason. I wanna hear someone else's thoughts. I wanna see someone else's vision. It's like when you're in a room and you hear an actor do a line that you never heard that way in your head but it's so much better and you think, "My goodness, that's fantastic. Can we keep that? Can we do that? Let's do it like that.” We were talking this morning, Scott and I, this particular actor had sung these lines in a completely different way than I had imagined, and I loved it. And I said to Scott, just let’s remember when we do this, how he did it. Because that was exciting. That was fun. That was different from what I imagined and I'm always thinking somebody else can make what I do so much better." I'm just the beginning of what I'm doing. I'm just the start and, for me, the real exciting part is working with such good people who bring so much of themselves to it that it grows and it becomes even more special than what I dreamed.
