TFANA Talks
ALERT: All Talks are postponed. Please visit us here for updates.
Deepen your experience of GNIT with free post-show conversations with artists and scholars following matinee performances. TFANA Talks are free and open to the public and do not require a ticket to that day’s performance.
Sunday, March 22 at 4:20pm
Playwright Will Eno in conversation with TFANA resident dramaturg Jonathan Kalb.
About the Panelists
WILL ENO’s (Playwright) recent plays include The Realistic Joneses (Broadway), which won a 2014 Drama Desk Award and was named USA Today’s “Best Play on Broadway.” The Paris premiere of Juste Les Jones, will be directed for the stage by documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. The Open House (Signature Theater) won the 2014 Obie Award, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Drama Desk Award, and was one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 Plays of the Year. Will wrote the book for the award-winning 2019 Skittles Commercial: the Broadway Musical.
JONATHAN KALB (Dramaturg) is Professor of Theater at Hunter College, CUNY, and TFANA’s Resident Dramaturg. The author of five books on theater, he has worked for more than three decades as a theater scholar, critic, journalist, and dramaturg. He curates and hosts the theater-review-panel series TheaterMatters at HERE Arts Center and has twice won The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has also won the George Freedley Award for an outstanding theater book from the Theatre Library Association. He often writes about theater on his TheaterMatters blog (at www.jonathankalb.com).
Playwright Will Eno in conversation with TFANA resident dramaturg Jonathan Kalb.
About the Panelists
WILL ENO’s (Playwright) recent plays include The Realistic Joneses (Broadway), which won a 2014 Drama Desk Award and was named USA Today’s “Best Play on Broadway.” The Paris premiere of Juste Les Jones, will be directed for the stage by documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. The Open House (Signature Theater) won the 2014 Obie Award, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Drama Desk Award, and was one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 Plays of the Year. Will wrote the book for the award-winning 2019 Skittles Commercial: the Broadway Musical.
JONATHAN KALB (Dramaturg) is Professor of Theater at Hunter College, CUNY, and TFANA’s Resident Dramaturg. The author of five books on theater, he has worked for more than three decades as a theater scholar, critic, journalist, and dramaturg. He curates and hosts the theater-review-panel series TheaterMatters at HERE Arts Center and has twice won The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has also won the George Freedley Award for an outstanding theater book from the Theatre Library Association. He often writes about theater on his TheaterMatters blog (at www.jonathankalb.com).
Saturday, March 28 at 4:20pm
Artists and participants to be announced.
Artists and participants to be announced.