CONVERSATION SERIES: INTERROGATIONS OF FORM ARTIST TALK: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 6:00pm Veterans Room Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory Featuring:
Sam Mendes Ben Power Moderated by Lynn Nottage
The Lehman Trilogy is produced by the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions, in collaboration with Park Avenue Armory.
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The Lehman Trilogy is supported in part by a generous grant from the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation. Additional sponsorship support is provided by SHOWTIME. The Lehman Trilogy is also supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. The artistic season is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Cover image: The Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre. Photo © Marc Drouet
MEET THE PARTICIPANTS SAM MENDES (DIRECTOR)
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years. He was the founding director of The Bridge Project and Neal Street Productions. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End, and on Broadway. Film includes American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre, and the upcoming 1917. Awards include Academy Award Best Director, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award Best Director, two Tony Awards, five Olivier Awards, the Olivier Special Award, three Evening Standard Awards, Empire Inspiration Award, Directors Guild of America Award, and the Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Director’s Guild Award for lifetime achievement. In addition to The Lehman Trilogy, his production of The Ferryman is currently running on Broadway.
LYNN NOTTAGE (MODERATOR)
Lynn Nottage is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Sweat (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; recently nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play), By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Ruined, Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers; and POOF!. Nottage is the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, Steinberg “Mimi” Distinguished Playwright Award, Dramatists Guild HullWarriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize, Obie Awards, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, NY Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, among others. She’s a member of The Dramatists Guild and the WGAE.
BEN POWER (ADAPTOR)
Ben Power is a writer for theatre and film and the Deputy Artistic Director of the National where his work includes: The Lehman Trilogy, Husbands & Sons, Medea, and Emperor and Galilean. He has worked as a dramaturg on over 60 productions at the National Theatre and ran the temporary theatre, The Shed, during its three years on South Bank. He was the associate director of Headlong, where his adaptations included Six Characters in Search of an Author, Faustus, and Paradise Lost. Other work for theatre includes A Tender Thing for the RSC and dramaturgy on A Disappearing Number (Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards for Best Play). Screenplays include five episodes of The Hollow Crown (Royal Television Society and Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Single Drama; BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama and Best Mini-Series).
NEXT IN THE SERIES SUNDAY SALON: MUSEUM AS SANCTUARY Sunday, April 14 at 3:00pm
Best known for challenging institutions and power structures with her politically-engaged art projects, Tania Bruguera, installation artist and Armory Artist-in-Residence, hosts an afternoon forum entitled “Museum as Sanctuary,” inviting fellow artists and audiences to engage with her signature concept of Arte Util (“useful art”).
CONFRONTATIONAL COMEDY Friday, May 17 at 7:00pm
Confrontational Comedy returns for a third year, headlined by Nish Kumar. This unforgettable evening of comedy sets and conversation highlights the power of humor to confront stereotypes and engage audiences around uncomfortable topics. Previous comedians have included: Hari Kondabolu, Negin Farsad, Aparna Nancherla, Jordan Carlos, Jena Friedman, and Jes Tom.
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