A Day at the Races: Julie Lythcott-Haims at TEDxStanford

Stanford's former dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising, Julie Lythcott- Haims, '89, left academia to follow her passion for writing. Her play, A DAY AT THE RACES, tells her story of biracial identity formation in a culturally white landscape. Directed by Brandon Jackson, '12, the play debuted in 2013 at San Francisco's Poets Theater, a venue for avant-garde flash theater. Lythcott-Haims based the play on her poem of the same name, which was published in "As Us: A Literary Space for Women of the World" in 2013. Jackson's recent directing credits include Cabaret (Broadway by the Bay), The Mountaintop and Once on This Island (assistant director, TheatreWorks).

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