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From Stage to Sketchbook, Clever Enough’s Artistic Director Never Stops Creating My essential seven: Valerie Asbell From stage to sketchbook, Clever Enough’s artistic director never stops creating. (Garry Bastian)
Hamlet, she decided that Ophelia (whom she was playing) should be a chess prodigy. “I know the chess metaphor has been done to death, but I was like, ‘Screw it. I don’t care. I’m doing it anyway.’” Asbell says. “I think that life is kind of like a chess game. You play your move the best you can and sometimes you’re a pawn in life and sometimes you’re the queen and sometimes you’re whatever.”