NEWS & EVENTS

“Theater Emory kicks off its 2014-2015 season with “Pinter Revue,” the first of two fully-staged productions during Pinter Fest, a semester-long celebration of British playwright Harold Pinter. Directed by theater faculty member Donald McManus, “Pinter Revue” runs October 2-11 in the Theater Lab of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.” Read the press release in full here.

British actor Julian Sands tells the story of the late Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter in his one-man show A Celebration of Harold Pinter. Sands will perform as part of Emory University’s Pinter Fest tonight at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. “Harold has a habit of showing up,” says Sands of the show, which was directed by actor…

“Some of us associate actor Julian Sands with period films like A Room with a View, while others may think of his more recent horror film oeuvre. Here’s an association less likely but infinitely more fascinating: Sands was a friend of the late playwright Harold Pinter and has captured his spirit in a one-man show…

With its 2014-15 season, “Global Perspectives: A Festival from Pinter to Rivera,” Theater Emory presents a yearlong festival celebrating the exciting work of diverse playwrights and their approaches to creating culturally charged theater. The season begins in the fall with Pinter Fest, a celebration of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, and finishes with spring offerings of staged readings…

This past Spring, rising senior and Theater Studies major, Troizel Carr, was named a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. MMUF is the centerpiece of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s initiative to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. We sat down with Troizel to hear a little bit more about his future plans…

By Emma Yarbrough | Arts at Emory | July 1, 2014 This summer, more than 50 performers, choreographers, playwrights, theater-makers, students and alumni converge on Emory’s campus for Theater Emory’s Breaking Ground Series, a four-week residency of new work development in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Read the full article here.

Southern Hospitality An interview with I and You playwright Lauren GundersonBy Margaret Edson The current print edition of American Theatre features the complete script of Lauren Gunderson’s new play I and You, as well as an edited version of this interview When Lauren Gunderson was 16, she wrote Margaret Edson a fan letter on the occasion of Edson’s Pulitzer Prize win for Wit. The…

Scott Turner Schofield, award-winning transgender actor, artist, solo theater performer and diversity speaker (not to mention, Theater at Emory alum!) delivers a TED Talk about transgender identity and ending gender. View the entire talk, “Ending Gender,” here.

Emory University’s Department of Theater Studies and Creative Writing Program are delighted to announce that Edith Freni has been selected as the 2014-2016 Fellow in Playwriting. This two-year fellowship is among the first of its kind, and is one of only a few existing university creative writing fellowships dedicated to supporting the work of playwrights. Developed as part of Theater Emory’s…

Playwright and theater alum, Lauren Gunderson, delivers an engaging meditation on theater for young audiences for the Huffington Post: How Theater for Young People Could Save the World “…so much of the toxicity in this world comes from a collective draining of empathy. We don’t understand each other, and we don’t want to. But theater…