Playwright Donald Margulies In Conversation On Real-Life Dramas Behind TIME STANDS STILL

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School presents

THE SECRET LIFE OF WAR REPORTERS
The real-life dramas behind "Time Stands Still"

Monday, February 8, 2010
5:30 - 7:30pm

Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
World Room, 3rd Floor (116th Street and Broadway)

TIME STANDS STILL, the acclaimed new Broadway play by Pulitzer-winning dramatist Donald Margulies currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club, is the story of Sarah and James, a photographer and a journalist, who have been together for years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when circumstances compel them to return home to New York and their circle of friends, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life.

Join a candid conversation with playwright Margulies and award-winning journalists - and married couple - Emma Daly and Santiago Lyon about how war reporters reckon with news ethics, covering violence and the effect of combat on their domestic lives.

In this public forum which is free to the public, a renowned playwright looks at war journalists - and legendary war journalists look at an acclaimed and controversial new play.

The forum will feature Donald Margulies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of TIME STANDS STILL; Santiago Lyon, Director of Photography for the Associated Press; Emma Daly, Communications Director, Human Rights Watch, and former correspondent, the Independent and The New York Times. The forum will be moderated by Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is dedicated to informed, innovative and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. Through its awards and fellowship programs, professional development, research, website and other work, the Dart Center provides journalists and news professionals around the world with the resources necessary to meet the challenges of reporting on street crime, family violence, natural disaster, war and human rights. Please visit us at www.DartCenter.org

To RSVP for the event, please e-mail Kate Black at The Dart Center: kate.black@dartcenter.org

BIOGRAPHIES
Donald Margulies's plays include Time Stands Still, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner with Friends, Sight Unseen, Collected Stories, The Loman Family Picnic, God of Vengeance, What's Wrong with This Picture?, Found a Peanut, The Model Apartment and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougement (as told by himself). He has won a Lucille Lortel Award, an American Theatre Critics Award, two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, two OBIE Awards, two Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Awards, five Drama Desk Award nominations, two Pulitzer Prize nominations and one Pulitzer Prize. His works have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature, and was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. He is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.

EMMA DALY is Communications Director of Human Rights Watch. She is the former Balkans correspondent for The Independent of London and former Madrid Correspondent of The New York Times. She covered regional conflicts in Central America, the breakup of Yugoslavia, the siege of Sarajevo and the war in Kosovo among other assignments.

SANTIAGO LYON is Director of Photography for the Associated Press. He has covered stories in Mexico, Central and South America, the 1991 Gulf War, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Yemen, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. In 1995, while on assignment in Sarajevo, Lyon was wounded by mortar shrapnel. Under his leadership AP's photography team won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.

ABOUT TIME STANDS STILL
TIME STANDS STILL features acclaimed actor and playwright Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, "Law & Order: CI"), Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James (Shrek, Off-Broadway's Next to Normal), Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney ("John Adams," Sight Unseen on Broadway), and Golden Globe Award nominee Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, "Miss Match").

TIME STANDS STILL is written by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and is directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan.

Sarah and James, a photographer and a journalist (Laura Linney and Brian d'Arcy James), have been together for years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when circumstances compel them to return home to New York and their circle of friends (Eric Bogosian and Alicia Silverstone) the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life.

For more information on MTC and TIME STANDS STILL, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

TICKETING INFORMATION FOR TIME STANDS STILL
Single tickets to TIME STANDS STILL are available via www.Telecharge.com; by telephone at (212) 239-6200 or (800) 432-7250 if outside the NY metro area; and at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre box office (261 West 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue).

TIME STANDS STILL tickets range in price from $67.00-$117.00.