Wednesday, March 11, 20156 p.m.Carl Fields Center at Princeton University

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Lewis Center for the Arts presents

Co-sponsored by the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Department of English

Performance and Panel Discussion on Community-Based Theater

LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTSChair Michael Cadden Administrative Director Marion YoungSpecial Outreach Projects Manager Fanny Chouinard

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UPCOMING LEWIS CENTER EVENTSSpring AwakeningThe winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening is the story of a group of teenagers growing up in the repressive world of late 19th-cen-tury Germany. Based on the play by Frank Wedekind with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik, this landmark musical is a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion with an electric rock and roll score.$15/$10 students and seniorsMarch 6, 8, 12, 13 at 8:00 p.m.; March 8 at 2:00 p.m. Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center

How I Learned to DriveOne of the most discomfiting love stories to emerge from the American theater, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is a warm, tragic, funny, and strikingly perceptive memory play in which a young woman looks back on her warped experience with love and struggles to forgive in the face of her past sexual trauma. March 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 at 8:00 p.m.Marie and Edward Matthews ‘53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau StreetTickets: $12/$10 students and seniors

Screening of Ze’eva Cohen: Creating A Life In DanceScreening of a recent documentary on dancer, choreographer, Professor of Dance Emerita, and Dance Program founder Ze’eva Cohen. Following the screening, Professor of Dance Judith Hamera will moderate a panel discussion with Cohen, Sharon Friedler (Swarthmore) and Elizabeth McPherson (Montclair) on the role of dance in higher education. Free and open to the publicMarch 12, 2015 at 4:30 p.m.James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street

Princeton Poetry FestivalWorld-renowned poets read from their work and engage in panel discussions at Princeton’s biennial festival, kicked off by the Poetry Out Loud New Jersey State Finals the morning of March 13. $15 for each day, $25 for a two-day Festival pass, and free for students. The New Jersey State Finals of Poetry Out Loud is free, however advance tickets are required and are also available for reservation through University Ticketing.March 13-14, 2015, Beginning each day at 2:00 p.m.Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton campus

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Running time: 20 min for the performance and 60 minutes for the panel discussion

Video or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

The performance are excerpts of work inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet work inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet performed by residents of Triad House and the Rainbow House, directed by Adin Walker ’16 based on a series of workshops Princeton theater students presented to residents. Triad House and Rainbow House are both part of LifeTies, Inc. which provides quality care and services to youth in crisis due to sexual orientation, gender, abuse, neglect, homelessness, and various health issues. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion on community-based theater with alumna Michelle Hensley, the artistic director of Minneapolis-based theater company Ten Thousand Things, and Laurie Woolery, Associate Director of Public Works at The Public Theater in New York.

Princeton students involved include: Maddy Cohen ’16, Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn ’16, Martina Fouquet ’16, Ava Geyer ’15, Ryan Gedrich ’16, Evelyn Giovine ’16, Hope Kean ’18, Abigail Melick ’17, and Emma Michalak ’17.

MICHELLE HENSLEY is the founder and artistic director of Ten Thousand Things Theater, where she has directed and produced over 50 tours of award-win-ning drama to low-income audiences in prisons, shelters and housing projects, as well as for the general public. Most productions make local critics’ annual Outstanding Production lists, including Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan, Greek tragedies like The Furies, Electra and Antigone, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, The Tempest, Richard III, Twelfth Night and Othello, and musicals like The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Most Happy Fella, Ragtime and The Little Shop

directed by Adin Walker ’16

of Horrors. Michelle received a McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship, and in 2012 the Star Tribune named her the Twin Cities’ Best Artistic Director. Michelle is a winner of the Francesca Primus Prize, an annual award given by the American Theater Critics Association for outstanding contribution to the American theater by a female artist. Her book on her discoveries about theater through Ten Thousand Things, All The Lights On, will be published March 1 of this year.

LAURIE WOOLERY is a director, playwright, educator, community organizer, facilitator and producer who has worked at the Public Theater, Oregon Shake-speare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, East West Players, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Inge Center for the Arts, Plaza de la Raza/RedCAT, Fountain Theater, Greenway Center for the Arts, Ricardo Montal-ban Theatre, Deaf-West Theatre, Highways Performance Space, Sundance Play-wrights Lab as well as the Sundance Children’s Theater. Laurie has developed and directed new works with diverse communities ranging from incarcerated women to residents of a small Kansas town 95% devastated by a tornado. Laurie creates site-specific work that range from a working sawmill in Eureka, California to the banks of the Los Angeles River. Laurie curated and produced a two-week festival exploring issues of hunger that brought artists, activists, community and thought leaders together. This festival “Creative Seeds” threw open the doors of Cornerstone’s methodology of community art making and invited the city of Los Angeles to engage in envisioning Cornerstone’s next cycle plays focusing on food justice, scarcity/abundance, urban/rural farmers, addiction, community gardens, and institutional food. Programming ranged from working in the fields harvesting food, planting community gardens, working soup kitchens, gath-ering stories through our mobile story unit, inviting community to dine at our block long dinner table to commissioning LA artists to create new work that was produced around the city. Laurie’s solo play Salvadorian Moon/African Sky was commissioned by Cornerstone Theater Company and performed in their citywide Festival of Faith. As a playwright, Laurie’s plays have been produced and tour throughout Southern California. Currently, Laurie is the Associate Director of Public Works at the Public Theater working with 5 community partners from all five boroughs to create theater that reflects and celebrates the diversity of New York. She is launching a new program called ACTivate (Artist, Citizen, Theater maker) at the Public Theater that partners community ensemble members with playwright Andrea Thome to devise a new play. Ms. Woolery is the former Asso-ciate Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, Theatre Conservatory Director at South Coast Repertory and former artist-in-residence at Hollygrove Children’s Home in Los Angeles. Laurie teaches at USC, Cal Arts, Citrus College, California State University at Northridge, California State University at Los An-geles and serves on the Board of the Latino Producers Action Network, Network of Ensemble Theaters and the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. Laurie is the proud recipient of the Fuller Road Fellowship for Women Directors of Color.

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