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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:What Uncle Vanya Means to Me: A Conversation with Heidi Schreck
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SUMMARY:What Uncle Vanya Means to Me: A Conversation with Heidi Schreck
DESCRIPTION:<!--break--><div>	<p style="margin:0in">		<span><span><span style="color:#212121"><span><span style="font-style:normal"><span><span style="font-weight:400"><span><span><span style="text-transform:none"><span><span><span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span><span><span><span><span style="color:black"><span>Join us for a conversation with playwright, performer, and Visiting Lecturer Heidi Schreck. Her critically acclaimed play <em>What the Constitution Means to Me</em> 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. <em>What the Constitution Means to Me</em> was named Best of the Year by <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>The New Yorker</em>, and more. Schreck’s other plays <em>Grand Concourse</em>, <em>Creature</em>, and <em>There Are No More Big Secrets</em> have also been produced in NYC and throughout the United States. Screenwriting credits include <em>I Love Dick</em>, <em>Billions</em>, <em>Nurse Jackie</em>, <em>Dispatches from Elsewhere</em>. 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. <span>Her version of <em>Uncle Vanya</em> premieres in April 2024 at Lincoln Center.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>	</p></div><div>	<p style="margin:0in">		<span><span><span style="color:#212121"><span><span style="font-style:normal"><span><span style="font-weight:400"><span><span><span style="text-transform:none"><span><span><span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>	</p></div><div>	<p style="margin:0in">		<span><span><span style="color:#212121"><span><span style="font-style:normal"><span><span style="font-weight:400"><span><span><span style="text-transform:none"><span><span><span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color:black"><span>This event is sponsored by the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund and hosted by the Department of English, with further support from Theater, Dance &amp; Media.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>	</p></div>
LOCATION:Farkas Hall, Room 203, 12 Holyoke St, Cambridge
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