Keynote by Todd London for the 5th Annual ORIGINKC New Works Festival on Saturday 14 March 2020
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2020-03-14

Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri presents a keynote by Todd London from the 5th Annual ORIGINKC: NEW WORKS FESTIVAL on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 14 March 2020 at 8 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 10 a.m. CDT (Kansas City, UTC-5) / 11 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4).

Keynote Address by Todd London
8 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 10 a.m. CDT (Kansas City, UTC-5) / 11 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4)

Todd London’s many books include An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art (Theatre Communications Group); Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play (Theatre Development Fund); The Importance of Staying Earnest (NoPassport); 15 Actors, 20 Years (Dutch Kills); The Artistic Home (TCG); and The World's Room, a novel (Steerforth). His second novel, If You See Him, Let Me Know, will be published this February (Austin Macauley). This Is Not My Memoir, co-authored with Andre Gregory is due out in May (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Todd spent 18 seasons as artistic director of New York's New Dramatists, the nation's oldest laboratory theatre for playwrights; under his leadership the company received a special Tony Honor and an Obie Award. The first recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s Visionary Leadership Award for advancing "the theatre field as a whole,” he also won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. Todd received an honorary doctorate from DePaul University in 2016. A former executive director of the University of Washington School of Drama, Todd is Director of Theatre Relations for the Dramatists Guild, Head of MFA Playwriting at the New School, and founding director of The Third Bohemia, an interdisciplinary retreat for artists.

Q&A with Todd London | Moderated by Lisa Rothe, Director of New Works, KCRep
8:45 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 10:45 CDT (Kansas City, UTC-5) / 11:45 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4)

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