CONVERSATION SERIES: INTERROGATIONS OF FORM ARTIST TALK: JUDGMENT DAY Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 6:00pm Veterans Room Featuring:
Richard Jones in conversation with
Anne Washburn
SEASON SPONSORS
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, 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 photo by Steffen Egly via Getty Images. Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory | 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street
MEET THE PARTICIPANTS RICHARD JONES
Richard Jones has directed theater in London at the Young Vic, The Old Vic, National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court Theatre, and in the West End. In New York, he has directed at The Public Theater and three times on Broadway. Jones has directed opera at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Amsterdam, Glyndebourne, La Scala Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Munich. In theater, he has been awarded Olivier Awards for Too Clever by Half (Old Vic) and Into the Woods (West End), and the Evening Standard Award as Best Director for The Illusion (Old Vic). He was nominated for a Tony Award for La Bête (Broadway), awarded four Olivier Awards in opera for Katya Kabanova and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (ROH), Hansel and Gretel (WNO), and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (ENO), which also won the South Bank Sky Arts Award. His production of The Hairy Ape played at New York’s Park Avenue Armory and was nominated for six Drama Desk Awards. In the 2015 New Year Honours, Jones was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE).
ANNE WASHBURN
Anne Washburn's plays include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, Shipwreck, The Small, an adaption of The Twilight Zone, and trans-adaptations of Euripides' Orestes and Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has been produced nationally and internationally. Her most recent play, Shipwreck, premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London in the spring of 2019 and will premiere in the United States at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington in February 2020, with a production in New York City to follow in the fall of 2020. Awards include a Whiting, Guggenheim, Alpert, PEN/Laura Pels for an artist in mid-career, NYFA Fellowship, Time Warner Foundation fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
NEXT IN THE SERIES SUNDAY SALON: DANCE
Sunday, December 15, 2019 at 3pm
With ballet at a crossroads, a new generation of pioneering artistic directors gathers for an afternoon salon to explore what 21st-century beauty looks like in a field that has often looked backward for inspiration. The salon includes conversations, a demonstration, and the seeds of future collaborations, and is presented in partnership with Dance Theatre of Harlem.
SYMPOSIUM: CULTURE IN A CHANGING AMERICA Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 12pm, 4pm, and 8pm
Artistic and scholarly responses to the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. See armoryonpark.org for latest details.
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