Aug 11, 2026 · 50 min · 15 segments
Michelle Talgarow has been a creative engine and arts leader of the small- to mid-sized Bay Area theatre community for nearly 30 years. I can still remember her amazing work from the old days with Art…
Michelle TalgarowGuest
Patrick DooleyHost
I think it's a person who has been part of a disenfranchised community, and then watching somebody navigate all of the defunding that happens, the gentrification that happens in a community.
So I've seen that community go through so many changes, um, both with the people who've been on the streets there or who occupy the SROs there, and then, and then watching it thrive in some ways, watching the people.
I see them on a daily basis, and then you watch, like, the next year, they're like, "Oh, I have a place now." And that really spoke to me in the sense of, like, just our current climate of things being taken away from a community just to live, and I think that feels so present.
I think it's a person who has been part of a disenfranchised community, and then watching somebody navigate all of the defunding that happens, the gentrification that happens in a community.
So I've seen that community go through so many changes, um, both with the people who've been on the streets there or who occupy the SROs there, and then, and then watching it thrive in some ways, watching the people.
I see them on a daily basis, and then you watch, like, the next year, they're like, "Oh, I have a place now." And that really spoke to me in the sense of, like, just our current climate of things being taken away from a community just to live, and I think that feels so present.
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