Join us for our first Perspectives on Performance talk of the semester: a dialogue between David Levine, Chair of Theater, Dance & Media, and American playwright Anne Washburn, about her immersive theater installation The Murder Room, which she is developing with TDM students while in residence at ArtLab.
The Murder Room is a crowdsourced collection of brainstorms, hopes, diagnostics, history and dreaming about the current vexing and exhilarating state of American Theater, expressed in the classic TV show form of the evidence board. (There will be red string!) Each time The Murder Room is mounted, it grows through the contributions of community members in each locale, creating an evolving portrait of Theater in America.
RSVP here (opens in a new tab). Please note this event will not be livestreamed.
This event is in collaboration with ArtLab.
Perspectives on Performance is presented with the support of the Provostial Funds for the Arts and Humanities.
For any accessibility needs, please contact tdm[at]fas.harvard.edu.
American playwright Anne Washburn’s work has been produced nationally and internationally and has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Fogler, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Whiting, a Guggenheim, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award for an artist in mid-career, an NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.