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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><a name="pam" id="pam"></a><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/burian_lectures.html"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
20th Annual Burian Lecture</span></a></span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Funded by the Jarka and Grayce Burian Endowment
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mackinnon_pam16.html"><span style="font-weight:normal">Pam MacKinnon, Tony Award-winning theatre director</span></a></span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April 18 (Monday)</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seminar — 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Burian Lecture — 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Pam MacKinnon,</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> theatre director, received the
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">2013 Tony Award for Best Direction
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">for the 50th Anniversary Broadway revival of
<i>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</i> Charles Isherwood of the <i>New York Times
</i>praised it for “superlative staging” and “the exhilaration of a fresh encounter with a great work of theater revitalized anew.” Widely hailed as a leading interpreter of Edward Albee’s work, MacKinnon also helmed the Broadway revival of Albee’s
<i>A Delicate Balance</i> (2014-15). In 2012, she won the Obie Award for Directing and received a
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Tony Award nomination for Best Director
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">for her work on
<i>Clybourne Park, </i>a spin-off of <i>A Raisin in the Sun </i>that also received the
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Tony Award for Best Play.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In 2015, she directed Al Pacino on Broadway in David Mamet’s
<i>China Doll.</i></span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Cosponsored by the Jarka and Grayce Burian Endowment and UAlbany’s Theatre Department</span></em><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Free parking is available in the University Visitors Lot for the 8PM event.</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a link to more information: <a href="http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mackinnon_pam16.html#.Vw_x501wXs0">
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mackinnon_pam16.html#.Vw_x501wXs0</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s Joe Donahue’s interview on WAMC posted this morning:
<a href="http://wamc.org/post/pam-mackinnon-nys-writers-institute-418#stream/0">http://wamc.org/post/pam-mackinnon-nys-writers-institute-418#stream/0</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><a name="colm" id="colm"></a><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/toibin_colm16.html"><span style="font-weight:normal">Colm
Tóibín, Irish fiction and nonfiction writer and journalist</span></a></span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April 29 (Friday)</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Reading — 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Colm Tóibín</span></strong><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> is one of Ireland’s foremost living novelists and journalists.
His novels include</span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> The Master
</span></em><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">(2004), winner of the
</span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Los Angeles Times
</span></em><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Book Award; and
</span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Blackwater Lightship</span></em><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> (1999) and
</span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Testament of Mary</span></em><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> (2012), both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His newest novel is
</span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Nora Webster</span></em><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> (2014), which Darin Strauss in the
</span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Los Angeles Times</span></em><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> said “may actually be a perfect work of fiction…There is no pyrotechny in the
writing – just compassion and shrewd insight…which is where Tóibín’s brilliance lies.”</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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screening of BROOKLYN with commentary by Colm Tóibín — 7:00 p.m. [Note early start time], Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Directed by John Crowley (Ireland/UK, 2015, 111 minutes, color) Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">BROOKLYN, a hit independent film based on Colm Tóibín’s 2009 same-titled novel, tells the tale of a young Irish woman who emigrates to Brooklyn, where she must choose
between two countries and her life in each. The </span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Hollywood Reporter</span></em><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> said, “Tóibín’s superior novel...has
been turned into a beautiful and moving film.” The film stars Saoirse Ronan, whose performance in BROOKLYN earned her a 2016 Screen Actors Guild nomination for best female actor in a leading role.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt:8.25pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Sponsored in association with Albany Pro Musica’s City of Immigrants Concert, a celebration of the rich cultural heritage of the Capital Region.
See <a href="http://www.albanypromusica.org/concerts/">http://www.albanypromusica.org/concerts/</a> for additional information.</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mark Koplik<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New York State Writers Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Science Library 320<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University at Albany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Albany, NY 12222<o:p></o:p></p>
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