SEGAL TALKS Betty Shamieh on Thursday 23 July 2020
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2020-07-23

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents SEGAL TALKS: Betty Shamieh and Ty Jones livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 23 July 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 17:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 18:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2).

Author of fifteen plays, Betty Shamieh is the Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her works include The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop), Fit for a Queen (Classical Theatre of Harlem), The Strangest (The Semitic Root), Territories (Magic Theatre) and Roar (The New Group). Roar is currently being taught at colleges throughout the United States. Shamieh wrote and co-starred in her play of monologues, Chocolate in Heat: Growing Up Arab in America, in an extended off-off-Broadway run and over twenty university theatres. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, Shamieh was named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue, a Harvard Clifton Visiting Artist, and a Radcliffe Playwriting Fellow. Her works have been translated into seven languages. She is currently developing a new comedy Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night.

ABOUT SEGAL TALKS:

SEGAL TALKS is a daily one-hour LIVE online conversation from Monday to Friday about making art and making sense in the Time of Corona.

SEGAL TALKS was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020.

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.

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