Join us on Sunday, October 6 immediately following the matinee performance for a post-show conversation with Sue Weaver Schopf.
Sue Weaver Schopf is a Distinguished Service Lecturer at the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education. She recently retired from the position of Associate Dean and Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the Harvard Extension School, where she also served for nearly thirty years as Research Advisor in the Humanities. She holds the PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. A recipient of post-doctoral fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she is a winner of the Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Prize, the Michael Shinagel Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Student Success, and the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award. Among the 17 literature courses that she teaches are North and South: The Plays of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, Masterpieces of Western Drama, Irish Literature and Drama, English Romantic Poetry, and The Post-Apocalyptic Novel and Film. Her publications include articles on a variety of literary topics, and she has been a frequent guest lecturer at institutions both in the US and abroad.
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Join us Monday, December 2nd following the performance for our official opening night press party for A Christmas Carol.
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Join us Monday, June 10th for the official press opening of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9.
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Join us on June 14 following the performance for a scholar social with Katherine Luongo.
Katherine Luongo is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University. She is the author of Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya: 1900-1955(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-author, with Matthew Carotenuto, of Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging (Athens [OH]: Ohio University Press, 2016).She is currently completing Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Arena of Asylum, a book-length study thatinvestigates the persistence of witchcraft-driven violence across Africa from the related standpoints of legal anthropology and legal history and migration and human rights studies.Her newest book project, tentatively titled A History of Human Rights in Kenya, examines the legal history of Kenya from the 1960s to 2002.
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Join us Wednesday, June 19 following the production for a scholar social with Jo Michael Rezes.
Jo Michael Rezes (they/them) is a Boston based director and actor. Jo is a graduate of Vassar College, and a current PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University. Recent directing credits include The Importance of Being Earnest: a queer adaptation (The Experimental Theatre of Vassar College), Melancholy Play: a chamber musical (Powerhouse Theatre), and School (Boston Theatre Marathon). Selected acting credits include Entropy Theatre Company’s a grimm thing (Boston Center for the Arts) and Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (Firehouse Center for the Arts). Rezes is the summer Artistic Direction Associate for Underground Railway Theater. website: jmrezes.com
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