Join us for a conversation with playwright, performer, and Visiting Lecturer Heidi Schreck. Her critically acclaimed play What the Constitution Means to Me played an extended, sold-out run on Broadway in 2019, and was nominated for two Tony Awards. It had subsequent runs at theaters all over the country. A filmed version of the play premiered on Amazon Prime Video, and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award, a PGA Award and DGA Award. What the Constitution Means to Me was named Best of the Year by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and more. Schreck’s other plays Grand Concourse, Creature, and There Are No More Big Secrets have also been produced in NYC and throughout the United States. Screenwriting credits include I Love Dick, Billions, Nurse Jackie, Dispatches from Elsewhere. She is the recipient of three Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award, as well as the Horton Foote Playwriting Award and the Hull-Warriner Award from the Dramatists Guild. She has also worked as a teacher and journalist in St Petersburg, Russia and has done live simultaneous translations of plays by Chekhov, Gorky, and Ostrovksy. Her version of Uncle Vanya premieres in April 2024 at Lincoln Center.

This event is sponsored by the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund and hosted by the Department of English, with further support from Theater, Dance & Media.