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An evening with Playwright Tarell McCraney and Emily Mann
Tarell McCraney
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Emily Mann is producing Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister play trilogy at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ in 2009. Parts 1 and 2 of this trilogy, set in the Louisiana projects, will travel to the Public Theater beginning October 21. McCraney's plays include Wig Out!, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet. The Brothers Size simultaneously premiered in New York at the Public Theater, in association with the Foundry Theatre, and in London at the Young Vic, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award. McCraney and Emily Mann, the Artistic Director of the McCarter, will discuss the trilogy which has brought this extraordinary young playwright into the public spotlight.
Tarell Alvin McCraney plays include Wig Out! (Vineyard Theatre, Royal Court), The Brother/Sister Plays (Public Theatre, Young Vic), Without/Sin (Yale Cabaret), Run, Mourner, Run (Yale Cabaret), Choir Boy (commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club), Again and Again; A Meditation on Antigone (commissioned for Berkeley Rep), and The Breach (commissioned by Southern Rep in New Orleans, where it premiered in August 2007 to mark the two-year anniversary of the tragedy there). The Breach also played at Seattle Rep in the winter of 2007.
Emily Mann
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Emily Mann (Playwright/Director) Multi-award-winning Director and Playwright Emily Mann is celebrating her 20th season as Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre. Under her leadership, McCarter was honored with the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. For Mann's original production of Having Our Say, she received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and WGA nominations; an NAACP Award; and a Joseph Jefferson Award; as well as Peabody and Christopher Awards for her screenplay. Her other plays include the multi-award-winning Execution of Justice; Still Life (six Obie Awards); Greensboro (A Requiem); and Annulla, An Autobiography. Directing credits include Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with Jimmy Smits (also on Broadway); the world premiere of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon with Kristine Nielsen (also off-Broadway); Uncle Vanya with Amanda Plummer (also adapted); All Over with Rosemary Harris and Michael Learned (also off-Broadway; 2003 Obie Award for Directing); The Cherry Orchard with Jane Alexander, John Glover, and Avery Brooks (also adapted); Three Sisters with Frances McDormand, Linda Hunt, and Mary Stuart Masterson; A Doll House with Cynthia Nixon; and The Glass Menagerie with Shirley Knight. A winner of the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, she is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on its Council. A collection of her plays, Testimonies: Four Plays, has been published by Theatre Communications Group, Inc. Her latest play, Mrs. Packard, was the recipient of the 2007 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award and was published by TCG this past spring. Most recently, Mann directed her latest adaptation, A Seagull in the Hamptons, a free adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, with Brian Murray and Maria Tucci; Mrs. Warren's Profession, with Suzanne Bertish; and the world premiere of Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I, due to appear on Broadway this season. In 2002, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Princeton University.
6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov 5, 2009
Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free!