“Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form.”

American stage and screen director, playwright and producer

George Costello Wolfe is an American stage and screen director, playwright, and producer. He is known for his work in theater and film, and for winning two Tony Awards for directing Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk. Wolfe led The Public Theater as artistic director from 1993 to 2004. His career spans directing, writing, and producing, with a strong association with major American stage work.