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Marie Romero Cash, Richard Birkett, Sara Swink, Tarell McCraney

Airs Friday August 15, at 9:00 pm on Ch. 5.1


Marie Romero Cash


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Santa Fe santera Marie Romero Cash shares how she needed to push the boundaries of creativity.

“Once I started going beyond the rules, it just became a matter of one-upmanship. And I wasn’t competing with everyone else in the market, I was competing with myself.”


Richard Birkett


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Turning trash into treasures, artist Richard Birkett has been making fantasy clocks for almost 30 years.

“I enjoy taking things apart. I like finding some little gadget that doesn’t work anymore, and finding out what’s inside.”


Sara Swink


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Ceramic artist Sara Swink creates characters from dreams…and nightmares.

“Judgment stops the process cold. So that’s a practice, a real everyday practice, to suspend judgment and let the ideas flow and go where the energy is.”


Tarell McCraney


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Playwright Tarell McCraney’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” takes place during the Haitian Revolution.

“What I wanted to do was make sure that if I were going to do the play “Antony and Cleopatra,” that it spoke to the people in my community.”