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18th Annual
John Guare
The
Eighteenth Annual Wednesday, April 14 Thursday, April 15 8:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.--THE WILLIAM INGE COLLECTION open to visitors. College Library, Academic Building. 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.--Tour
of "WILLIAM INGE'S INDEPENDENCE." Sign up at the Registration desk in 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.--"Creating Picnic." Join the director and cast of the Brandeis University Players production of PICNIC for a panel discussion. Music Hall, Fine Arts Building. (requires Daytime Pass) 2:45 P.M.- 3:45 P.M.--"ONE
ON ONE WITH QUEEN BEY." Join world-renowned jazz singer and
actress Queen 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.--Tour
of "WILLIAM INGE'S INDEPENDENCE." Sign up at the Registration desk in
the 7:30 P.M.--PICNIC
by William Inge. Performed by the BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PLAYERS .
Adults $8.00 9:30 P.M.--"MOONGLOW
AT THE HOTEL BOOTH." After-theatre party at the historic Hotel
Booth, 8th & Main, Friday, April 16
8:15 A.M. - 9:15 A.M.--"A
PRACTICAL APPROACH TO DIRECTING" with Broadway and regional theatre
director Luke Yankee. Music Hall, Fine Arts Building. (requires
Daytime 9:30 A.M. - 10:45 A.M.--"A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN GUARE." Mr. Guare will discuss the theatre and respond to questions. Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Building. (requires Daytime Pass) 11:00 A.M. - 12:00
P.M.--"Six Degrees of THEATRE: 1999." A panel discussion with
playwrights Robert Anderson and John Guare, "Best Plays" editor Otis
L. Guernsey, Jr., James 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.--"A
MOVEABLE FEAST" LUNCH. A keepsake lunchbag with contents to be eaten
at numerous locations. Margaret Goheen Foyer, Fine Arts Building.
Fee: $7.50 1:15 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.--"PERSPECTIVES
ON THE AUDITION PROCESS." Join director Luke Yankee, 2:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.--"SCHOLAR'S
CONFERENCE." Conference Director: Dr. Jackson Bryer, The University 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.--Tour
of "WILLIAM INGE'S INDEPENDENCE." Sign up at the Registration desk in
the 7:00 P.M.--"A GALA DINNER Party at the Independence Country Club." The awarding of the 1998 Margo Jones Award and Medal to James Houghton. Silent Auction of theatre memorabilia starts at 6:00 p.m. All proceeds from the silent auction benefit the restoration of the boyhood home of William Inge, now owned by the Inge Festival Foundation. All seats reserved. $50.00 (RESERVE EARLY-LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE)
10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.--THE
WILLIAM INGE COLLECTION open to visitors. College Library, Academic 8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.--"PLAYWRIGHTS
IN RESIDENCE AT THE SIGNATURE." James Houghton, Artistic 10:00 A.M. - 11:45
A.M.--"NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN THEATRE:1999." Scenes from
playwright David 11:45 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.--"PICNIC LUNCHEON" at Riverside Park, 4-H Building. Fee: $7.50 1:30 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.--SCENES
FROM PICNIC AT WILLIAM INGE'S HOME." Join the cast of PICNIC for 2:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.--"Open House at the Inge Home-A restoration project in progress." 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.--TOUR
OF "WILLIAM INGE'S INDEPENDENCE." Pre-register at the Registration
desk 8:00 P.M.--"TRIBUTE
TO JOHN GUARE." Presentation of "THE DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN THE 1999 Special Guests and Festival Participants in the William Inge Theatre, and participated in the "Tribute to John Guare" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m. in the William Inge Theatre. QUEEN BEY was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas where she started singing at the age of twelve in the famous Orchid Room, a Kansas City jazz club, popular in the 1950's. She received her basic training from jazz greats such as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and Linda Hopkins. She has performed with B.B. King, The Platters and the late jazz pianist Earl Garner. Queen recorded her first album called "Comin' Thru" and her second album, "Dues Paid in Full" in 1990; her newest CD is titled "So this Is London." Added to her credits, Ms. Bey has acted on stage, television and in film, including Broadway musicals - Ain't Misbehavin, One Mo' Time, and Blues in the Night. Her television debut was an NBC mini-series, Matter of Justice co-starring with Patty Duke and Martin Sheen. Her film debut was in the movie Ninth Street with Martin Sheen and Isaac Hayes. In 1980, Ms. Bey received the Governor's Arts Award and was one of the honorees at the 1991 induction of the Elder Statesman of Kansas City Jazz, Inc. In Kansas City, she has performed at the New Theatre Dinner Theatre and at the American Heartland Theatre. She recently performed at the Paseo Performing Arts Theatre in Once On This Island. Queen Bey participated in "One on One With Queen Bey" on Thursday, April 15, and was the headline act for "Moonglow" on Thursday, April 15 at the Hotel Booth in Independence. BERNARD GERSTEN has been the Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater since its re-establishment in 1985, in partnership with Gregory Mosher through 1991 and with Andre Bishop as Artistic Director since then. Among Lincoln Center Theater's seventy two productions of the past twelve years, especially notable productions include Anything Goes, Sarafina!, Speed-The-Plow, The House of Blue Leaves, The Front Page, Our Town, Waiting For Godot, Six Degrees of Separation, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Heiress, A Delicate Balance, and An American Daughter. For PBS they have produced The House of Blue Leaves, The Comedy of Errors, Our Town and Twelfth Night. He was producer of the NBC documentary film Voices of Sarafina! From 1960 to 1978, he was the Associate Producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival for among other works, A Chorus Line, Two Gentlemen of Verona, For Colored Girls..., That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing, and Sticks and Bones. Mr. Gersten has been an adjunct professor of Theater Administration at NYU, Yale School of Drama, and Columbia University School of the Arts. Mr. Gersten was the Master of Ceremonies for "A Tribute to John Guare" on Saturday, April 17 in the William Inge Theatre. DAVID HIRSON, chosen as the Inge Festival's 1999 "New Voice in American Theatre," was born in New York City, and was educated at Yale University and in England at Magdalen College, Oxford. He made his Broadway and London debuts with his first play, La Bete, for which he received the John Gassner Award of the Outer Critics Circle, the New York Newsday/Oppenheimer Award, and the Marton Prize of the Dramatists Guild for Best New American Playwright. La Bete also received the special "Best Play" citation in the American Theatre annual Best Plays 1990-91, as well as five Tony Award nominations and six Drama Desk nominations including Best Play 1991. For the London production of La Bete, he won the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year. David's second play, Wrong Mountain, which he completed last summer, is scheduled to have its world premiere on Broadway this coming fall, produced by Dodgers-Endemol Theatrical Productions. Mr. Hirson also took part in a panel discussion entitled "Perspectives on the Audition Process" on Friday, April 16 in the Music Hall of the Fine Arts Building. POLLY HOLLIDAY began her career with seven years of classical repertory at the Asolo State Theatre in Sarasota, FL. She made her New York debut in 1972 at the Public Theatre in Wedding Band by Alice Childress. Her Broadway credits include All Over Town by Murray Shisgal (1975) and a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace (1986). In 1988, she played Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. In 1990, she again appeared on Broadway as Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress. Her feature films include All the President's Men, Gremlins, Moon Over Parador, Mr. Wrong and most recently, The Parent Trap. Her television credits include the 1996 series, The Client, several television movies and a recurring role on the sit-com Home Improvement. For four years, Ms. Holliday played the character of Flo on the TV sit-com Alice for which she was nominated five times for an Emmy and for which she twice won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a TV series. In 1997, she appeared in the world premiere of a new Horton Foote play, The Death of Papa, in Chapel Hill, NC, appearing with Matthew Broderick, Ellen Burstyn and Hallie Foote. Holliday recently appeared on Broadway in Guare's play Marco Polo Sings a Solo at the Signature Theatre and performed a scene from it at the "Tribute to John Guare" on Saturday, April 17 in the Inge Theatre. DAVID E. LeVINE is a theatrical lawyer, consultant and lecturer. He is Chairman of the Margo Jones Award Committee, and trustee of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. He was Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild, Inc., from 1966 to 1992. He was a founding member of the Broadway Alliance Committee and a member of the Tony Awards Administration Committee. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University Law School. Mr. LeVine was the moderator for the panel discussion "Six Degrees of Theatre: 1999" on Friday, April 16 in the Inge Theatre and presented the Margo Jones Award at the Gala Dinner on Friday, April 16. BRUCE NORRIS recently appeared on Broadway in John Guare's Marco Polo Sings a Solo at the Signature Theatre. Other Broadway credits include Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter, Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, New York Plunge at Playwrights Horizons, Sin at Second Stage, The Arabian Nights, What the Butler Saw, Life During Wartime, and The Debutante Ball at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Wenceslas Square and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the New York Shakespeare Festival. In Chicago, he appeared in many productions with the Goodman and Remains Theatres. He adapted and directed Joe Orton's Up Against It and wrote and directed The Vanishing Twin, both for Chicago's Looking Glass Theatre. Recent film credits include A Civil Action with John Travolta. Mr. Norris took part in a panel discussion entitled "Perspectives on the Audition Process" on Friday, April 16 in the Music Hall of the Fine Arts Building and also in the "Tribute to John Guare" on Saturday, April 17 in the Inge Theatre. OTIS L. GUERNSEY, JR., editor of The Best Plays yearbook and former editor of the Dramatists Guild Quarterly, was educated at Yale University. After graduation, he joined John Gassner's playwriting seminar in New York but soon started working for the New York Herald Tribune, beginning as a copy boy and then graduating to reporter, film and drama critic, and drama editor. In 1960 he resigned from the Herald Tribune. His credits include authoring two original film stories, one of them Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. In 1964 he took charge of the Best Plays series of theatre yearbooks started in 1919 by Burns Mantle. Mr. Guernsey's resumes of the seasons from 1965 to 1987 were combined in a single volume titled Curtain Times. A veteran of both the New York Film Critics and the New York Drama Critics Circle, Guernsey helped to found the American Theater Critics Association in 1974. He received a special award from the New England Theater Conference in 1988 and the Margo Jones Medal in 1991. Mr. Guernsey took part in the panel discussion "Six Degrees of Theatre: 1999" on Friday, April 16 in the Inge Theatre and is advisor to the Inge Festival's New Voices in American Theatre. MIKE WOOD, Executive Director of Media Resources at Wichita State University, has an MFA from the University of Southern California in Cinema Production, and has served as producer of the tribute to the playwright for the Inge Festival twelve times. In 1987 he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award at Independence Community College. He is the writer and producer of "William Inge: Penn Avenue to Broadway," a documentary on Inge's life, and is a recipient of the Margaret Goheen Award. He produced the "Tribute to John Guare" on Saturday, April 17. LUKE YANKEE has directed, produced and taught at regional theatres throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has served as the Artistic Director of the Long Beach Civic Light Opera and the Struthers Library Theatre. Highlights include: Night Club Confidential with Barbara Eden, Man of La Mancha with John McCook, The King & I with Lee Meriwether, Love Letters with Ed Asner, Sally Struthers, Troy Donahue, Joanna Gleason, John Rubenstein, and Governor Pete Wilson, Driving Miss Daisy with Eileen Heckart and Private Lives with David Canary. For the last four years, he has directed Theatre LA's Ovation Awards, honoring excellence in Los Angeles theatre. He has also directed and produced industrials and special events all over the country, working with celebrities ranging from Quincy Jones and Dick Clark to Carol Burnett and Stephen Sondheim. He is a regular guest director at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Columbia College in Hollywood. He has just returned from guest lecturing with Barbara Eden on a cruise to India, Egypt and Israel. Mr. Yankee took part in a panel discussion entitled "Perspectives on the Audition Process" on Friday, April 16 in the Music Hall of the Fine Arts Building and also in the "Tribute to John Guare" on Saturday, April 17 in the Inge Theatre. James
Houghton, recipient of the James Houghton
is the founding artistic director of the Signature Theatre Company in
New York City. The Signature Theatre is the only not-for-profit
theatre company in the United States to devote each season of
productions to the work of a single playwright.
John Guare is this year's featured
Signature dramatist. Other honored writers to have their work
featured at the Signature include
Arthur Miller,
Sam Shepard,
Horton Foote, and
Edward
Conference Scholars Conference Director: Jackson R. Bryer, Ph. D, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim. In 1981, he served as a consultant to
the National Endowment Scholars: JUDITH
BABNICH, associate professor of theatre at Wichita State
University, received her BA degree from Edgecliff College, an MA from
the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D in theatre arts from UCLA.
She is a member of Actors Equity. Her research on the Omaha Magic
Theatre and playwright Megan Terry has appeared in such journals as
"Theatre Survey," "Theatre Journal," and "Centennial Review." After
receiving her doctorate, she worked with the Missoula, Montana,
Children's Theatre Tour Project and toured throughout the U.S. and
Canada for a year. Her recent productions include: Fences, A Raisin
in the Sun, Durang Durang, Before It Hits Home, Prosperity, Six
Degrees of Separation, The Colored Museum, Pippin, and Miracle. Her BETH C. RIPS is a
PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska. A former
restaurateur and professional baker turned teacher, she holds a
master's degree in English from Creighton University and a bachelor's
degree in art history from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. An
avid fan of theatre, she became completely smitten while watching
Angels in America at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Last fall she
presented a paper at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Clarksdale,
MS. In 1998 she presented a paper on "Deanie Loomis: Inge's Jazz
Age Ophelia." Her topic this year is "Bad Girls and Big Daddies:
Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Splendor in the Grass and Orpheus
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