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THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
Panel Biograhpies
NYTW
will host a FREE panel discussion on ADAPTATIONS
5:30 on Saturday, November 21, between the 3:00 and
8:00 performances of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Panelists
include Gilman, Anne Bogart, Will Power and Doug Wright. Debra Cardona,
dramaturg for The Classical Theatre of Harlem, will moderate.
The discussion will take place
in
our theatre.
Debra
Cardona
Moderator
Debra Cardona is an actor and dramaturg. She has been Production Dramaturg
for Classical Theatre of Harlem since 2003, working on such productions
as AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH, WAITING FOR GODOT, FUNNYHOUSE
OF A NEGRO and MARAT/SADE. Ms. Cardona has served on the TCG/NEA Playwrights
Residency Grant panel, the Reading Committee of New Harmony Project,
and is on the Board of Directors of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs
of the Americas (LMDA).
Anne
Bogart
Panelist
Anne Bogart is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she
founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor
at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program.
Works with SITI include Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater,
Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and
the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War
of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice’s Adventures;
Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams;
The Medium; Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private Lives;
August Strindberg’s Miss Julie; and Charles Mee’s
Orestes. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares,
The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.
Rebecca
Gilman
Panelist
Rebecca Gilman’s plays include The Crowd You’re
In With, Dollhouse, Spinning Into Butter, Boy Gets Girl, Blue Surge,
and The Glory of Living. Her plays have been produced at the
Goodman Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, the
Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Manhattan Class Company.
She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Prince Prize for
Commissioning New Work, The Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy
Center Fund for New American Plays, The Evening Standard Award for Most
Promising Playwright, and The George Devine Award. Ms. Gilman was named
a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for her play, The Glory of
Living.
Will
Power
Panelist
Will Power is an award-winning playwright and performer. His adaptation
of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes, retitled “The Seven,”
enjoyed a successful Off-Broadway run at the New York Theater Workshop
in 2006 and The La Jolla Playhouse in 2008. His solo show FLOW was featured
in the Hip Hop Theater Festival before touring nationally and internationally
to critical acclaim. Power’s numerous awards include a United
States Artist Prudential Fellowship, a Lucille Lortel Award for Best
Musical, the TCG Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, a Jury Award for Best
Theatre Performance at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, a Drama Desk
Award nomination, and the Trailblazer Award from The National Black
Theater Network. Power’s numerous film and television appearances
include The Steven Colbert Report (Comedy Central), and Bill Moyers
on Faith and Reason (PBS). Originally from the Fillmore District in
San Francisco, Will Power currently resides in Beacon, New York with
his wife Marla and their two children.
Doug
Wright
Panelist
Doug Wright's theater work includes I AM MY OWN WIFE (Pulitzer and Tony
Awards), QUILLS (Oble Award, subsequent film adaptation), GREY GARDENS,
UNWRAP YOUR CANDY and THE LITTLE MERMAID.
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