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April 17, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu NCSA DRAMA DEAN GERALD FREEDMAN TO DELIVER ROGER L. STEVENS ADDRESS AT SPRING MEETING OF THE COLLEGE OF FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE
WINSTON-SALEM – Gerald Freedman, dean of the School of Drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts, will deliver the Ninth Annual Roger L. Stevens Address at the spring meeting of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre on Sunday, April 20, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The meeting is hosted by Washington’s National Theatre and its president and executive director, Fellow Donn B. Murphy. Freedman, a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre since 1995, will speak about “My Life in Art: A Twentieth Century Riff on Stanislavski.” Freedman, who has been dean of drama at NCSA since 1991, is an Obie Award-winner and the first and only American invited to direct at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.	Gerald Freedman
Gerald Freedman is regarded nationally for his productions of classic drama, musicals, operas, new plays and television. He served as leading director of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival, the last four years as artistic director. He was co-artistic director of John Houseman’s The Acting Company, artistic director of the American Shakespeare Theatre, and artistic director of Great Lakes Theater Festival. He has staged more than two dozen of Shakespeare’s plays, along with dozens of other world classics. He has directed celebrated actors such as Olympia Dukakis, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, Mandy Patinkin, Patti Lupone, Sam Waterston, William Hurt and Kevin Kline. He made theatre history with his off-Broadway premiere of the landmark rock musical Hair, which opened the Public Theatre in 1967. On Broadway, he directed The Robber Bridegroom; The Grand Tour with Joel Grey, the revival of West Side Story, co-directed with Jerome Robbins; the premiere of Arthur Miller’s The Creation of the World and Other Business; and Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession with Lynn Redgrave. His productions for Great Lakes included King Lear and Death of a Salesman, with Hal Holbrook. Freedman has had several articles published in American Theatre magazine, the most recent of which surveyed a group of six books on acting by prominent American acting teachers. Last spring, he directed a 50^th anniversary production of West Side Story at NCSA and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. ###
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April 17, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu

NCSA DRAMA DEAN GERALD FREEDMAN TO DELIVER
ROGER L. STEVENS ADDRESS
AT SPRING MEETING OF THE
COLLEGE OF FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE

WINSTON-SALEM – Gerald Freedman, dean of the School of Drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts, will deliver the Ninth Annual Roger L. Stevens Address at the spring meeting of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre on Sunday, April 20, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The meeting is hosted by Washington’s National Theatre and its president and executive director, Fellow Donn B. Murphy.

Freedman, a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre since 1995, will speak about “My Life in Art: A Twentieth Century Riff on Stanislavski.”

Freedman, who has been dean of drama at NCSA since 1991, is an Obie Award-winner and the first and only American invited to direct at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

Gerald Freedman

Gerald Freedman is regarded nationally for his productions of classic drama, musicals, operas, new plays and television. He served as leading director of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival, the last four years as artistic director. He was co-artistic director of John Houseman’s The Acting Company, artistic director of the American Shakespeare Theatre, and artistic director of Great Lakes Theater Festival.

He has staged more than two dozen of Shakespeare’s plays, along with dozens of other world classics. He has directed celebrated actors such as Olympia Dukakis, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, Mandy Patinkin, Patti Lupone, Sam Waterston, William Hurt and Kevin Kline. He made theatre history with his off-Broadway premiere of the landmark rock musical Hair, which opened the Public Theatre in 1967. On Broadway, he directed The Robber Bridegroom; The Grand Tour with Joel Grey, the revival of West Side Story, co-directed with Jerome Robbins; the premiere of Arthur Miller’s The Creation of the World and Other Business; and Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession with Lynn Redgrave. His productions for Great Lakes included King Lear and Death of a Salesman, with Hal Holbrook.

Freedman has had several articles published in American Theatre magazine, the most recent of which surveyed a group of six books on acting by prominent American acting teachers. Last spring, he directed a 50^th anniversary production of West Side Story at NCSA and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago.

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