Drama Faculty/Graduate Colloquium: Ehren Fordyce

The Department of Drama presents the Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium. Each quarter this Series will feature one graduate student,

one faculty member, and one special visitor.

The Schedule for the rest of Winter Quarter 2005 is as follows:

Thursday, February 24, 5pm

"Holy Industrial Tableau, Bertram! The Staging of the Grand Opera Robert le diable"

A talk by Professor Ehren Fordyce

Ehren Fordyce teaches undergraduate directing and contemporary performance in the Department of Drama, and has published articles on the Wooster Group, Reza Abdoh, and Elevator Repair Service. As a director, he has staged several works from the modern canon, such as Büchner's Woyzeck, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera, and Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Forthcoming work will be on late 20th-century American experimental drama.

Thursday, March 3, 5pm

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will have a general conversation with the drama department about her work.

Please Note: The Drama Department will be hosting a conversation for the community at large between Ms. Parks and Professor Harry Elam, director of In The Blood, at 12pm in the http://www.stanford.edu/dept/drama/maps.html#memaud";>Pigott Theater on Thursday, March 3. The 5pm event is primarily for the Department students and faculty.

Suzan-Lori Parks was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2001, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her play Topdog/Underdog. Parks has taught or worked as writer-in-residence at numerous institutions, including Yale University and the Pratt Institute for the Arts. Her play In The Blood will be performed at Stanford March 2—6. She is currently director of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.