Jude Kelly, founder of the Women of the World festival, explains to Chiara Clemente how young women can find their own voices, and why they have a duty to keep fighting for equality.
At the age of just 12 years old, Jude Kelly knew she wanted to be a theater director. But she soon realized that there were few female role models in the field, and just as few stories about women in the canon of literature and theater. “I decided I was going to make a body of work which in every single sense was going to be questioning the place that women’s stories have in art, culture, and in everyday civil life and political life,” says Kelly. “And I was going to do everything I could do to make those stories matter at a different lev... Keep reading on Artsy
At the age of just 12 years old, Jude Kelly knew she wanted to be a theater director. But she soon realized that there were few female role models in the field, and just as few stories about women in the canon of literature and theater. “I decided I was going to make a body of work which in every single sense was going to be questioning the place that women’s stories have in art, culture, and in everyday civil life and political life,” says Kelly. “And I was going to do everything I could do to make those stories matter at a different lev... Keep reading on Artsy