André Bishop of Lincoln Center Theater is Coming to Tribeca PAC

The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center will partner with host Randy Cohen for his Person Place Thing podcast and radio show for a third season. The first guest of 2020 to be featured at Tribeca PAC is Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, on Monday, March 16 at 7pm. Tickets to the recording are $10 and available online, at the door, and by phone at 212-220-1460.

Person Place Thing is an interview show recorded around New York and based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great talkers. This show is taped and broadcast at a later date on public radio throughout the Northeast (WNYE, 91.5 FM in NYC), as well made available online at http://personplacething.org/.

Randy Cohen's first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore's "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, "The Punishing Blow," ran at New York's Clurman Theater. His most recent book, "Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything," was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

André Bishop, Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater since January 1992, and Producing Artistic Director since July 2013, has developed and produced new plays and musicals by many of America's leading playwrights, composers and lyricists. Prior to his arrival at Lincoln Center, Mr. Bishop served as Playwrights Horizons' Artistic Director for ten years and as its Literary Manager for six. His many successful productions at that theater included three Pulitzer Prize winners: The Heidi Chronicles, Driving Miss Daisy and Sunday in the Park with George. Recent seasons under Mr. Bishop's artistic direction have included new plays and musicals, revivals and new adaptations of classic works, and solo performances. These works include Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter and Third; Tom Stoppard's Hapgood, Arcadia, The Invention of Love and The Coast of Utopia; Eric Bogosian's suburbia; David Hare's Racing Demon and Via Dolorosa; five-time Tony Award winner Carousel; Nicholas Hytner's production of Twelfth Night (broadcast on PBS' "Live from Lincoln Center"); and the award winning revivals of The Heiress, A Delicate Balance, and Awake and Sing! on Broadway.

Music will be played between each segment and provided by Pat Irwin and Walter Hawkes.

Pat Irwin most recently composed music for the NPR podcast "This American Life" and completed the score for the Rocko's Modern Life movie, Static Cling. Pat released a recording of duets with fellow composer J. Walter Hawkes titled Wide Open Sky. Walter Hawkes is a fellow composer and trombone player. Both Irwin and Hawkes write music for cartoons and share a love for vintage synthesizers and drum machines.

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