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Jul 15, 2020
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 SEGAL TALKS Week 16
LEE BREUER & MAUDE MITCHELL  (NYC)
Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 12 noon EDT 

 New Times need new Forms of Theatre.” Bertolt Brecht

Lee Breuer & Maude Mitchell
Join us for an update on the situation for theatre artists in NYC

Lee Breuer is a writer, director, poet, lyricist, filmmaker, adapter, producer, and teacher whose work expands the boundaries of storytelling in the theatre. He is a Founding Artistic Director of Mabou Mines Theater Company.

Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde. By blending disciplines and techniques from widely different cultures, he has created a unique performance genre in which visual arts elements, sound and musical components, and arresting movement/dance fuse into a genuinely original form. Breuer’s work as a director includes celebrated stagings that have toured worldwide.

He directed the first American play for La Comédie-Française, “Un Tramway nommé désir” (A Streetcar Named Desire). “The Gospel at Colonus”, his unprecedented merger of Greek theatre and gospel service, is now a classic of the contemporary stage, as is his revolutionary post-Brechtian production of Ibsen “Mabou Mines DollHouse”. Breuer is also a prolific writer who redefines the concept of character and the use of biography in a distinct American voice.

Fellowships include a MacArthur, Harvard/Radcliffe Bunting, Ford/USArtists, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, McKnight, three Fulbrights, two Asian Cultural Counsel Fellowships and a Japan American Friendship Commission. Nominations include Pulitzer, Tony, Emmy and Grammy Awards.

He has directed thirteen OBIE Award-winning performances, two OBIE Award- winning productions, and has received OBIE Awards for Best Play, Directing and Distinguished Achievement; as well as the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, The Edinburgh Herald Archangel Award for Sustained Achievement, The Theatre Communications Group Award for Lifetime Achievement, and has been named Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.

Breuer was born in 1937. He lives in New York with his partner, actor, Maude Mitchell. Lee has five children and three grandchildren – all of whom are artists.

Recent Publications: “Getting Off” , Theater Communications Group, 2019. “La Divina Caricatura”, Seagull Books, 2019.

Maude Mitchell (Mabou Mines Associate Artist) is an actor, writer, adapter, dramaturge, and lecturer. Acclaimed for her performance as Nora Helmer in Mabou Mines DollHouse (Drama League Nomination, Backstage West Garland Award, Elliot Norton Award and a Village Voice Obie Award).  Ms. Mitchell was also the dramaturge and co-adapter (with Lee Breuer). Mabou Mines DollHouse is the second most widely toured production in this century of Ibsen’s groundbreaking feminist work (33 venues on 5 continents: 2003-2011). The radical adaptation is taught in colleges and universities around the world. (Film version commissioned by ARTE, France/Germany for European television.) Ms. Mitchell served as dramaturge on La Comédie Française’s first American play in the company’s 350-year history (2011), “Un tramway nommé désir” by Tennessee Williams.  Mitchell was one of the Co-Creators with other members of The Tectonic Theater Project’ of “The Laramie Project”, an important catalyst in the implementation of hate crime legislation in the US. Mabou Mines inaugurated their newly renovated theater in December 2017 with a production of “Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play”, conceived and adapted by Maude and Lee. “Glass Guignol” explores creativity and madness drawing on works of Tennessee Williams and Mary Shelley.  Maude has been collaborating with partner Lee Breuer for over two decades – they have worked together on six continents. Recently: Guest speaker: The American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt & The Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre. Global Doll’s House The Ibsen Centre, Oslo, Norway (via Zoom). Guest presentation of “Medea”, Oxford, UK, 2019.

ABOUT SEGAL TALKS

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is proud to announce the 16th weekly line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS, which was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World. The Segal Center is the only theatre institution in NYC and the US creating original content.

The newly introduced ad-free SEGAL TALKS will be live-streamed in English from Monday to Friday on HowlRound Theatre Commons and on the Segal Center Facebook. All the previous SEGAL TALKS will be found on HowlRound, the Segal Center Facebook, and the Segal Center YouTube Channel. The Segal Theatre Center will raise money for theatre artists and companies. This program is in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons, based at Emerson College.

SEGAL TALKS has been made possible by the support of Susan and Jack Rudin(†), the Hearst Foundation, and Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Chair, The Graduate Center CUNY.

CONTACT

Send us questions during the live streaming at SegalTalks@gmail.com.                                                         Contact mest@gc.cuny.edu for more information on SEGAL TALKS.                                                               Contact Frank Hentschker at fhentschker@gc.cuny.edu for press information                                                 Follow us @segalcenter on FacebookInstagram or Twitter

PARTICIPANTS FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEKS

Click Here for Week 15 Participants: Karishma Bhagani, Anne Moraa & Sitawa Namwalie (Kenya); Émilie Monnet & Greg Hill (Canada); Satoko Ichihara (Japan); Niegel Smith (NYC); Jean-Claude van Itallie (US)

Click Here for Week 14 Participants: Kemi Ilesanmi & Ebony Noelle Golden (NYC); Gianina Cărbunariu (Romania) & Jeton Neziraj (Kosovo); Frédérique Aït-Touati (France); Iman Aoun (Palestine); Evoné Walters & Akiba Abaka (Jamaica)

Click Here for Week 13 Participants: Muriel Miguel & Gloria Miguel (US); Daniely Francisque (Martinique); Eugenio Barba (Italy); Paul Pryce (NYC); Liwaa Yazji (Syria)

Click Here for Week 12 Participants: Peter Schumann (US); Govin Ruben & Terence Conrad (Malaysia); Tania Bruguera (Cuba); Hope Azeda (Rwanda); Saman Amini (Netherlands/Iran)

Click Here for Week 11 Participants: Jonathan McCrory & Ngozi Anyanwu (NYC); James Scruggs & Tamilla Woodard (NYC); Jean-Luc Nancy (France); Awoye Timpo (NYC); Woodie King Jr. (NYC)

Click Here for Week 10 Participants: Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota (France); Ralph B. Peña (USA/NYC); Ruth Kanner, Joshua Sobol, Maya Arad Yasur (Israel); Avra Sidiropoulou (Greece); Ashley Tata (USA/NYC)

Click Here for Week 9 Participants: Kris Verdonck (Belgium); Aina Tur (Spain); Anne Bogart (New York, USA); Patricia Cornelius (Australia); Hoi Fai Wu (Hong Kong)

Click Here for Week 8 Participants: Maria Tri Sulistyani (Indonesia); Pamela Villoresi (Italy); Richard Foreman (USA); Thomas Oberender (Germany); Phillip Howze & Jordana De La Cruz(USA)

Click Here for Week 7 Participants: Ismail Mahomed (South Africa); Natalia Vorozhbit(Ukraine);Amir Nizar Zuabi & Fidaa Zaidan (Palestine); Roberta Estrela D’alva & Dione Carlos(Brazil); Edouard Elvis Bvouma & Hermine Yollo (Cameroon)

Click Here for Week 6 Participants: Andrea Tompa & Anna Lengyel (Hungary); Lola Arias (Argentina); Mihaela Drăgan & Mihaela Michailov (Romania); Zuleikha Allana (India); Stacy Klein & Stephanie Monseu (USA)

Click Here for Week 5 Participants: Rimini Protokoll’s Daniel Wetzel, Helgard Haug, & Stefan Kaegi (Germany); Guy Régis Jr (Haiti); Jalila Baccar (Tunis); Peter Sellars (USA); Oskar Eustis& Tony Torn (NYC, USA)

Click Here for Week 4 Participants: Milo Rau (Switzerland); Richard Schechner (NYC, US); Basil Jones (South Africa); Arthur Nauzyciel & Keren Ann (France); Guillermo Calderón (Chile)

Click Here for Week 3 Participants: The New BlackFest’s Keith Adkins with Dennis A. Allen II, France-Luce Benson, & Lisa Strum (NYC); Nature Theatre of Oklahoma’s Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska + The Big Dance Theatre’s Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar (NYC); The Foundry Theatre’s Melanie Joseph with Aaron Landsman & Aurin Squire(NYC); Shahid Nadeem (Pakistan) + Abhishek Majumdar & Anurupa Roy (India); TR Warszawa’s Grzegorz Jarzynawith Agata Kołacz & Roman Pawłowski (Poland)

Click Here for Week 2 Participants: Laila Soliman, Dalia Basiouny (Egypt) + Sahar Assaf(Lebanon); Chou Tung-Yen, Kathy Hong, Wu-Kang Chen (Taiwan); Lucia Calamaro, Graziano Graziani, Valeria Orani (Italy); Meredith Monk (New York, US); Aristide Tarnagda & Safoura Kaboré (Burkina Faso)

Click Here for Week 1 Participants: Taylor Mac & Kristin Marting (New York, US); Mok Chiu Yu(Hong Kong) + Hanchen Feng, Shuyi Liao (China); Thomas Ostermeier(Germany); Teatro delle Albe’s Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari (Italy); Toshiki Okada (Japan)

ABOUT THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER

Originally founded in 1979 as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA), The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center was renamed in March of 1999 to recognize Martin E. Segal, one of New York City’s outstanding leaders of the arts. The Segal Center curates over thirty events throughout the Spring and Fall academic seasons, all free and open to the public. Dedicated to bridging the gap between the professional and academic theatre communities, the Segal Center presents readings, performance, lectures, and artists and academics in conversation. In addition, the Segal Center presents three annual festivals (PRELUDEPEN World Voices: International Pay Festival, and The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance) and publishes and maintains three open access online journals (Arab StagesEuropean Stages, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre). The Segal Center also publishes many volumes of plays in translation and is the leading publisher of plays from the Arab world. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC) is a vital component of the Theatre Program’s academic culture and creating in close collaboration a research nexus, focusing on dramaturgy, new media, and global theatre. The Segal Center provides an intimate platform where both artists and theatre professionals can actively participate with audiences to advance awareness and appreciation. www.TheSegalCenter.org

THE SEGAL TEAM
Executive Director: Frank Hentschker
Creative Producer: Sunyoung Kim
Next Generation Fellow: Andie Lerner

Assistant Director of Programs: Kyueun Kim

THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, of which the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is an integral part, is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York (CUNY). An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs, as well as a number of master’s programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world’s leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to twenty-eight interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, The Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City’s intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. www.gc.cuny.edu.

HowlRound Theatre Commons at www.HowlRound.com is a free and open platform for theatre makers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. HowlRound envisions a theatre field where resources and power are shared equitably in all directions, contributing to a more just and sustainable world. HowlRound was founded on an organizing principle in the “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values. HowlRound is a knowledge commons that encourages freely sharing intellectual and artistic resources and expertise. It is our strong belief that the power of live theatre connects us across difference, puts us in proximity of one another, and strengthens our tether to our commonalities. HowlRound is based at Emerson College, Boston. http://www.howlround.com