Michaela Farrell

• Class of 2018

• Roots of GU experience: Davis Center (on/offstage), TPST classes, The Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, Nomadic
• What’s the Davis Center’s lasting impact on your current values and work? My TPST muscles get flexed every time I need to build something or devise something on the fly, and the Davis Center values intersect with my life constantly.
• How have you carried the Davis Center’s ethos of creating new work and collaborations? There are two main ways: 1. As part of the New York Neo-Futurists: always jamming and playing together within our ensemble and within our community. 2. My puppet company, Out of work Puppeteers. We are always just getting excited about the new worlds we can build together.
• What are 3 values or skills from the Davis Center that contribute most to your work and/or life?
  1. Scrappy-ness
  2. Confidence
  3. Worldview