Join us Thursday, June 20th following the performance for our a talkback with the cast and creative team of Cloud 9.
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Post-Show Conversation with Linda Schlossberg
Join us Friday, June 21 following the performance for a post-show conversation with Linda Schlossberg.
Linda Schlossberg serves as Associate Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Harvard University, where she teaches courses in literature and creative writing. She is the author of the novel Life in Miniature and the co-editor of Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including McSweeney’s, Conduit, and Post Road. Schlossberg received the 2016 Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Writer’s Center and a 2019 Literary Arts Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council/ Mass Cultural Council.
Post-Show Conversation with Andrew Sofer
Join us Saturday, June 22 following the performance for a post-show conversation with Andrew Sofer.
Andrew Sofer is a Professor of English at Boston College. His books include The Stage Life of Props (Honorable Mention, ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award); Wave (Finalist, Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize); and Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance (Honorable Mention, ATHE Outstanding Book Award; Finalist, TLA Freedley Memorial Award). His essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, English Literary Renaissance, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, The Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama, and elsewhere. His awards for poetry and criticism include ASTR’s inaugural Oscar G. Brockett Prize for the best essay in theatre research. He has been English Alumni Lecturer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; McElroy Shakespeare Lecturer at Loyola University, Chicago; IPTD Lecturer at Northwestern University; and Donald Justice Scholar in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Andrew holds an MFA in Directing and has directed numerous plays. He has taught at the Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research at Harvard since 2012.
Post-Show Conversation with Ted Hewlett
Join us Wednesday, June 26 following the performance for a post-show conversation with Ted Hewlett.
Ted Hewlett is an actor, fight director, and teacher. In New York City, he has performed in Shogun (original Broadway cast), as well as at Pan Asian Rep, Mettawee River Co., Lincoln Center Institute, and HERE. Regional theatre performance credits include Shakespeare & Company, Syracuse Stage, Kennedy Center, Elm Shakespeare Co., and Birmingham Theatre (MI). He has choreographed violence for the Off-Broadway run of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, as well as at the Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.), Berkshire Theatre Festival, Westchester Broadway Theatre, and Fulton Opera House. Select Boston credits include Huntington Theatre, SITI Company/ArtsEmerson, A.R.T., Actors’ Shakespeare Project, New Rep, SpeakEasy Stage, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Merrimack Rep, and North Shore Music Theatre. Film and TV credits include Hook, Army of Darkness, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare. Mr. Hewlett earned his M.F.A. in Acting from Brandeis University, and is a proud union member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and American Association of University Professors. He is on the full-time acting faculty of Emerson College, as well as being a senior teacher at Shakespeare & Company.
Post-Show Conversation with Jo Michael Rezes
Join us for a post show conversation on June 26 with Churchill scholar, Jo Michael Rezes.
Jo Michael Rezes (they/them/theirs) is a Boston based director, performer, and scholar. Jo is a graduate of Vassar College, and a current Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University. Their current research centers ethnographic explorations of queer time ruptures in performance spaces, disintegration of the body in camp theatre, Theatre of Cruelty, Epic Theatre, and 20th century performance praxis. Recent directing credits include The Importance of Being Earnest: a queer adaptation (The Experimental Theatre at Vassar College), Melancholy Play: a chamber musical (Powerhouse Theatre), and School (Boston Theatre Marathon), and Cloud 9 (AD, Nora Theatre Company). Selected acting credits include Entropy Theatre Company’s a grimm thing (Boston Center for the Arts) and The Rocky Horror Show (Firehouse Center for the Arts). Learn more at: jmrezes.com
