Burning Coal Theatre Presents A CONVERSATION WITH GERALD FREEDMAN 9/26

Burning Coal Theatre Company's 2009/2010 LobbyLectures series begins on Saturday, September 26th at 6 pm with A CONVERSATION WITH Gerald Freedman. Gerald Freedman directed the original production of Ragni, Rado & McDermott's HAIR at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre in 1967. He is currently Dean of the School of Drama at UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

The event is free to all ticket holders for the evening's performance of HAIR (at 7:30 pm) and to anyone who attended the production at Burning Coal at any point during the show's run from September 10 - 27th. The lecture is $10 for anyone else and available at the door that evening. No reservations are necessary.

Tickets to HAIR may be obtained by calling 919-834-4001 or through our website at www.burningcoal.org

ABOUT Gerald Freedman
(from the UNC School of the Arts website). Obie Award-winner and first American director invited to direct at London's Globe Theatre. Regarded nationally for productions of classic drama, musicals, operas, new plays and television. Served as leading director of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival from 1960-71 - the last four years as artistic director. Co-artistic director of John Houseman's The Acting Company from 1974-77, and artistic director of the American Shakespeare Theatre during 1978-79. Artistic director of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1985-1997. Has staged 26 of Shakespeare's plays, along with dozens of other world classics. Directed celebrated actors such as Olympia Dukakis, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, Julie Harris, Charles Durning, Sam Waterston, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Jean Stapleton, William Hurt, Carroll O'Connor and Kevin Kline. Made theatre history with his off-Broadway premiere of the landmark rock musical HAIR which opened The Public Theatre in 1967. Broadway direction includes "The Robber Bridegroom"; "The Grand Tour" with Joel Grey; the revival of "West Side Story," co-directed with Jerome Robbins; the premiere of Arthur Miller's "The Creation of the World and Other Business"; and Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession" with Lynn Redgrave and Edward Herrmann. Productions for the Great Lakes Theater Festival include Shakespeare's "King Lear" (with HAl Holbrook), which went to the Roundabout Theatre in New York City. Directed opera productions for the Opera Society of Washington (Kennedy Center), the San Francisco Opera Company, and New York City Opera. For New York City Opera, directed revivals of "Brigadoon" and "South Pacific." Before coming to the School of the Arts, taught at Yale and The Juilliard School.

 

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