Paul Tazewell

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TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: In celebration of Pride Month | from Design Matters · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

And I think that my mother knew that I would excel in a profession that I really enjoyed.

Well, coming from Akron, Ohio, that was a huge culture shift to enter into New York and Brooklyn in 1981 slash 82.

Right.

It was before Brooklyn was really Brooklyn.

Yeah.

I mean, that neighborhood, I live in the same neighborhood that I was going to school in now.

And it was a completely different situation, you know.

But that aside, I was living in a roach-infested apartment because that was the housing for Pratt Institute students.

Huge high-rise, full of students that were under the age of 21.

So that was a little traumatizing.

And then I just wanted to get back to really what my passion and love is.

There was this program that offered costume design or major in costume design, as well as a major in dance, as well as a major in acting, music of all sorts.

And it was close to family.

It's close to Greensboro where a lot of my family lives.

So there are a lot of pluses for shifting.

What I didn't know is that I would not be able to double major, which is what my hope was, that I would double major in costume design and in dance or acting, one of those.

That second year there, I needed to make a decision about what am I going to do and what are my next steps with my life, really.

And I made the decision to...

really set down performance and really embracing what seemed to be working at that moment, which was costume design.

One of the things that led into that decision was also being aware that the roles that I had the potential to be offered at that time were not necessarily roles that I saw myself in, meaning I was not necessarily going to be cast as a leading man.

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