Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Meet LA’s 2018 MacArthur ‘Geniuses’
This year’s MacArthur “Genius” grants are out. The five-year grants are for people who show “exceptional creativity” and potential in their work. They each get $625,000 to pursue their projects, no strings attached.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThis year’s MacArthur “Genius” grants are out. The five-year grants are for people who show “exceptional creativity” and potential in their work. They each get $625,000 to pursue their projects, no strings attached. A few of them are based in Los Angeles: neuroscientist Doris Tsao, playwright Dominique Morisseau, and music composer Matthew Aucoin.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Duarte Geraldino
journalist, analyst, and radio host
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Matthew Aucoin
composer-conductor-pianist, LA Opera
Dominique Morisseau
playwright
Doris Tsao
CalTech
The full episode
2 of 4Javier Bardem’s transformation into Pablo Escobar- 0:00Former FBI special agent on Kavanaugh investigation
- 9:31Meet LA’s 2018 MacArthur ‘Geniuses’You’re reading this
- 17:56Javier Bardem on playing brutal drug lord Pablo Escobar
- 31:35Loudon Wainwright on a lifetime of music