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Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens Kicks Off 2023-2024 Season With Playwright, Screenwriter, and Actor Halley Feiffer

The event is on Thursday, October 5, at 6pm.

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Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens Kicks Off 2023-2024 Season With Playwright, Screenwriter, and Actor Halley Feiffer

The Hermitage Artist Retreat’s popular series, “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens,” continues into its fourth year as part of the Hermitage’s 2023-2024 season. The outdoor series — a continuing collaboration between the Hermitage and Marie Selby Botanical Gardens — features performances and explorations of works-in-progress by Hermitage artists-in-residence and alumni.

   “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” events are currently scheduled to take place at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus and its Historic Spanish Point Campus in Osprey. The first of these events is “The Blurred Line Between Humor and Heartbreak: A Playwriting Workshop,” where award-winning writer, actor, and Hermitage Fellow Halley Feiffer will invite participants into the creative process on Thursday, October 5, at 6pm, at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota Campus, 1534 Mound St., Sarasota. Admission is free, but registration is required ($5/person) at HermitageArtistRetreat.org.  

     Feiffer is a WGA, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle-nominated writer and actor. She is currently writing and show-running Season 12 of Ryan Murphy's hit television series American Horror Story, starring Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian. She is also writing the book for the Broadway-bound stage adaptation of Thelma & Louise with Neko Case composing. Her television and film roles include HBO’s Mildred Pierce, Flight of the Conchords, and Bored to Death, and the films The Squid and the Whale, Gentlemen Broncos, and He’s Way More Famous than You, which she also co-wrote. She is currently developing a film adaptation of her play The Pain of My Belligerence with Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going for her to direct.

            Confirmed dates for this fourth season of “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” include:

·      Thursday, October 5, 2023, Downtown Sarasota Campus

·      Thursday, November 30, 2023, Historic Spanish Point Campus

·      Thursday, January 25, 2024, Downtown Sarasota Campus

·      Thursday March 28, 2024, Downtown Sarasota Campus

·      Thursday, May 23, 2024, Historic Spanish Point Campus

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