[Capdist-auditions] Free UAlbany Events with Tony Winning Director Pam MacKinnon

[Koplik, Mark A]

We wondered whether your members might be interested in attending the following free events:

[Pam MacKinnon]

The 20th Annual Burian Lecture<http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/burian_lectures.html>
Funded by the Jarka and Grayce Burian Endowment
Pam MacKinnon, Tony Award-winning theatre director<http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mackinnon_pam16.html>
April 18 (Monday)
Seminar - 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
The Burian Lecture - 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Pam MacKinnon, theatre director, received the 2013 Tony Award for Best Direction for the 50th Anniversary Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Charles Isherwood of the New York Times 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 A Delicate Balance (2014-15). In 2012, she won the Obie Award for Directing and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Director for her work on Clybourne Park, a spin-off of A Raisin in the Sun that also received the Tony Award for Best Play. In 2015, she directed Al Pacino on Broadway in David Mamet's China Doll.

Cosponsored by the Jarka and Grayce Burian Endowment and UAlbany's Theatre Department

Free parking is available in the University Visitors Lot for the 8PM event.


Here's a link to more information:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mackinnon_pam16.html#.Vw_x501wXs0
Here's Joe Donahue's interview on WAMC posted this morning:  http://wamc.org/post/pam-mackinnon-nys-writers-institute-418#stream/0

Your members may also be interested in this:

[Colm Toibin]
Photo: Brigitte
Lacombe

Colm Tóibín, Irish fiction and nonfiction writer and journalist<http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/toibin_colm16.html>
April 29 (Friday)
Reading - 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center

Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland's foremost living novelists and journalists. His novels include The Master (2004), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and The Blackwater Lightship (1999) and The Testament of Mary (2012), both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His newest novel is Nora Webster (2014), which Darin Strauss in the Los Angeles Times 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."

[Brooklyn]Film screening of BROOKLYN with commentary by Colm Tóibín - 7:00 p.m. [Note early start time], Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus

Directed by John Crowley (Ireland/UK, 2015, 111 minutes, color) Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson

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 Hollywood Reporter 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.

Sponsored in association with Albany Pro Musica's City of Immigrants Concert, a celebration of the rich cultural heritage of the Capital Region. See http://www.albanypromusica.org/concerts/ for additional information.


Thanks for your enthusiasm for theater!

Best regards,
Mark Koplik
New York State Writers Institute
Science Library 320
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
518 442 5626

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