Tandy Culpepper Talks to Filmmaker Vishavjit Singh about His New Short Animated Film, American Sikh
In the Republic, the philosopher Plato notably penned that “Our need will be the real creator.” A rephrasing of those words survives to this day:…
Tandy Culpepper Talks with Actress Aba Arthur about her Work in The Color Purple & More
Aba Arthur is an actor, playwright, filmmaker, and author. This multi-hyphenate woman knew what she wanted her future to look like from day one. …
Tandy Culpepper talks to filmmaker Neer Shelter, director of the award-winning live action short film, Perspectives, now qualified for the Oscars.
Tandy Culpepper talks with Australian filmmaker Neer Shelter, the man behind the live action short film, Perspectives. The film has qualified for consideration by the…
Tandy Culpepper Talks with Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter John Ondrasik AKA Five For Fighting: Ukraine and Afghanistan, Music & More
You may know him as John Ondrasik. You may know him by his stage name Five for Fighting. No matter. By any name, this acclaimed…
Tandy Culpepper Talks Writing and War Correspondence with Veteran Broadcast Journalist Don Dahler
I’d been trying to schedule an interview with veteran broadcast journalist Don Dahler (most recently of CBS News) for weeks. We finally found a…
Tandy Culpepper Talks Israel, Hamas, and Politics with Award-winning Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Francine Kiefer
For several months, I had been trying to pin down journalist Francine Kiefer for an interview regarding her award-winning work as West Coast bureau chief…
Tandy Culpepper Talks with Singer-Songwriter Lauren Calve about her Debut Long-form Album, Shift
Recently I had the opportunity to interview the D.C. based singer-songwriter Lauren Calve. By her own wry admission, she’s something of a late bloomer. In…
Tandy Culpepper Talks with Judy Lev about her Groundbreaking New Memoir, Our Names Do Not Appear
Judy Lev (the pen name for Judy Labensohn) is an American-Israeli writer whose new memoir — Our Names Do Not Appear — breaks new ground…
Tandy Culpepper Talks Menopause, Mayhem & Mirth in Pamela Skjolsvik’s Darkly-Comic Novel, Forever 51
Pamela Skjolsvik and I met in 2008 at Goucher College where we both were enrolled in the Creative Nonfiction MFA program. We’ve kept in…
Tandy Culpepper Talks Painting and Poetry with Chris Arvidson, Author of The House Inside My Head
I caught up recently with a woman who, like me, graduated from Goucher College’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. She and I have been Facebook…