Crystal Moselle is the creator and director of “Betty,” a show about female skateboarders in New York City. She had spotted them moving as a group on an early foray into the street and, curious, engaged them. The road to “Betty” began similarly, when Moselle crossed paths with skateboarders Nina Moran and Rachelle Vinberg on the subway. “I think that, as the collaboration goes on, they’re becoming their characters rather than themselves,” Moselle explained. “It’s more like ideas and things that are happening within their world, people they know that we’re bringing in.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 27, 2021 12:02 UTC