Yale School Presents A Conversation with Edward Albee 10/22

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA/Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Dean, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean, Managing Director) announce A CONVERSATION WITH Edward Albee on Friday, October 22 at 3:00PM, at the Yale University Art Gallery McNeil Lecture Hall (1111 Chapel Street, at York Street).

The event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required: please arrive early for best seating.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee will participate in a discussion moderated by Catherine Sheehy, Resident Dramaturg at Yale Repertory Theatre and Chair of the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Department at Yale School of Drama.

Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Edward Albee's A DELICATE BALANCE directed by James Bundy, Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, begins performances that evening at 8:00PM. The cast features Kathleen Butler, John Carter, Kathleen Chalfant, Edward Herrmann, Ellen McLaughlin, and Keira Naughton.

BIOGRAPHIES

Edward Albee (PLAYWRIGHT) was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959), The Sandbox (1959), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), All Over (1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), Listening (1975), Counting the Ways (1975), The Lady from Dubuque (1977-78), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981), Finding the Sun (1982), Marriage Play (1986-87), Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award), Occupant (2001), At Home at the Zoo (Act 1: Homelife. Act 2: The Zoo Story) (2004), and Me, Myself & I (2008). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980. In 1996 he received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005, he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. Mr. Albee is a Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama this fall.

CATHERINE SHEEHY (DRAMATURG) is Resident Dramaturg at Yale Rep and the Chair of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama. Her most recent Yale Rep dramaturgy credits include POP!, Trouble in Mind, and The King Stag (which she also co-adapted with Evan and Mike Yionoulis). Her adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was recently produced at Asolo Repertory Theatre and Dallas Theater Center. She has worked at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, in New York and Ireland with the late Joseph Chaikin, at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE with Irene Lewis, and for four seasons as Festival Dramaturg at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. She is a former associate editor of American Theatre and a former editor of Theater magazine. She received her doctorate from Yale in 1999 for her dissertation: If You Care to Blast for It: Excavating the Lost Comic Masterpieces of the American Canon.

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