Paul Tazewell

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386 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 7 Jun

Paul Tazewell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I'm not just decorating a character.

I'm telling a parallel story, one that lives in the clothing.

Costumes are not static.

They move with the body.

They evolve.

Sometimes they even tell lies.

They reflect growth, conflict, resolution.

I can telegraph an entire emotional arc in the fit of a jacket, the fraying of a hem, the way fabric breaks down under stress.

What's extraordinary is this.

You feel it.

even if you don't realize it.

Costume is a subconscious language.

I'm using your power of perception to lead you through the story."

This manipulation of perception carried me to Hamilton.

At its core, Hamilton is a story of us versus them, colonists versus empire,

immigrants versus the establishment.

But Lin-Manuel Miranda handed me something radical.

He said, I want the audience to see our founding fathers through today's lens.

So imagine that challenge.

Black and brown bodies dressed in 18th-century coats and breeches rapping about revolution.

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