 America’s foremost Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights, Tony Kushner and Edward Albee visit the Fordham Theatre Department for the Eastern European Theatre Seminars. They participated in a panel discussion on Russian and American theatre with Russia’s leading playwright Alexander Galin (not pictured), moderated by Mel Gussow of The New York Times.
Academy Award winning actress Marcia Gay Harden talks with Fordham Theatre students about her recent film Mystic River and her life as an actor.
Fiona Shaw talks with the Fordham Theatre students about her life in the theatre while in NY doing Medea on Broadway. Photo: Chad McArver
Harvey Keitel, Actor
Photo: Ken Levinson
John Guare, Playwright
Photo: Bruce Gilbert
Olympia Dukakis, Actor,with Fordham Theatre major Megan Boggia (former Fordham faculty member, Joan Macintosh behind)
Photo: Ken Levinson
Denzel Washington, actor, talks with Fordham Theatre students
Photo: Carolyn Farrar
Edward Albee, playwright
Photo: Ken Levinson
Fordham co-hosted a “Broadway U.” seminar in which Robert Sean Leonard, Kevin Spacey, and Tony Danza spoke with Fordham theatre students about their Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh.
Photo: P. Gallo
While in NY appearing in the Broadway production of the play QED, Alan Alda visited Fordham to speak with the theatre students about acting and having a career in the theatre.
Photo: Bruce Gilbert
Eve Ensler performing her play, The Vagina Monologues. Eve spoke to Fordham Theatre students about her plays The Vagina Monologues and Necessary Targets and her experiences utilizing theatre as a tool for social change.
Photo: Joan Marcus
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Special guest seminars and workshops are conducted every year by some of the world’s leading theatrical figures. These have included:
INTERNATIONAL DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Alexander Galin (Russia)
Jerzy Grotowski (Poland)
Anatoly Smeliansky (Moscow Art Theatre)
Tadashi Suzuki (Japan)
AMERICAN DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Playwrights
David Lindsay-Abaire, Edward Albee, Nilo Cruz, John Guare, Len Jenkin, Kia Korthron, Tony Kushner, Craig Lucas, Charles Mee Jr., Susan Mosakowski, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks
Directors
Christopher Bayes, Anne Bogart, Scott Elliott, David Esbjornson, Oscar Eustis, Richard Foreman, Tina Landau, Liz Lecompte, Lloyd Richards, Julie Taymor
Designers
Susan Hilferty, Jean-Guy Lecat, Ming Cho Lee, Neil Patel
Performance Artists
Eve Ensler, Spalding Gray, Anna Deavere Smith
Actors
Alan Alda, Beau Bridges, Patricia Clarkson, Tony Danza, Willem Dafoe, Olympia Dukakis, André Gregory, Marcia Gay Harden, Harvey Keitel, Robert Sean Leonard, Lorenzo Pisoni, Fiona Shaw, Kevin Spacey, Denzel Washington, Julie White
Producer
Elizabeth McCann
Founding Member of the Group Theatre
Robert Lewis
Founder of La MaMa E.T.C.
Ellen Stewart
Producing Director of the New York Shakepeare Festival Public Theatre
Rosemarie Tichler
Artistic Director of the Sundance Theatre Lab
Robert Blacker
Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater
Bernard Gersten
Founder of the Living Theatre
Judith Malina
GUEST DIRECTORS on the Fordham mainstage have included:
Suzanne Agins, Tea Alagic, Christopher Bayes, Julie Boyd, Mary Catherine Burke, Karin Coonrod, Clinton Turner Davis, Frank Deal, Rachel Dickstein, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Annie Dorsen, Jackson Gay, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Michael Goldfried, Erica Gould, Jessi Hill, Laura Josepher, Yolanda King, Sonoko Kawahara, Michael Mayer, Colin McKenna, Charles Newell, Lisa Peterson, Jean Randich, Steven Rattazzi, Jonathan Rosenberg, Jerry Ruiz, Erica Schmidt, Niegel Smith, Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Ratan Thiyam, Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Randy White, Paul Willis, Michael Wilson, Evan Yionoulis |
