Yale Hosts A CONVERSATION WITH LIEV SCHREIBER 1/31

Tony Award-winning actor and Yale School of Drama alumnus Liev Schreiber will deliver the Elizabethan Club's 20th Annual Maynard Mack Lecture. A CONVERSATION WITH Liev Schreiber, co-sponsored by Yale School of Drama, will take place on Monday, January 31 at 5PM at the University Theatre (222 York Street). The event will be moderated by James Bundy, Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre.

The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, so please arrive early for the best seats.
Celebrating its 100th Anniversary, the Elizabethan Club, founded in 1911 by Alexander Smith Cochran (Yale Class of 1896), is a private club that maintains a library and serves as a meeting place for conversation and discussion relating to literature and the arts. The Elizabethan Club administers an annual lecture, which brings to Yale every year a distinguished theatre practitioner to speak on a topic of his or her choice. The Lectureship honors the late Maynard Mack, Sterling Professor of English at Yale, Chair of the Department, and eminent scholar and critic of Shakespeare, Pope, and other literary figures.

BIOGRAPHIES

Liev Schreiber received his training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Yale School of Drama ('92, MFA). His Broadway credits include the recent production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge opposite Scarlett Johansson (Tony Award nomination); Talk Radio (Tony nomination); Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award); and Betrayal. Other stage credits include the title roles in Macbeth, Henry V, and Hamlet; Iago in Othello; Sebastian in The Tempest; and both Jupiter and Iachimo in Cymbeline (for which he received the OBIE Award). On film, he has portrayed Laertes in a modern-day version of Hamlet. His other film credits include Salt opposite Angelina Jolie, Every Day opposite Helen Hunt, Repo Men, Taking Woodstock, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Defiance, The Painted Veil, The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, Spring Forward, The Hurricane, A Walk on the Moon, The Daytrippers, Mixed Nuts, and the Scream trilogy. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2005 with Everything Is Illuminated, which he also adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's novel. Television credits include RKO 281, in which he played Orson Welles (Emmy, Golden Globe Award nominations); Lackawanna Blues; The Sunshine Boys; and he has narrated the documentaries Mantle, :03 from Gold, A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers, Nova, and Nature.

James Bundy is in his ninth year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. In his first eight seasons, Yale Rep has produced more than twenty world, American, and regional premieres, five of which have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle with the award for Best Production of the year, and two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. During this time, Yale Rep has also commissioned more than two dozen artists to write new work and provided low-cost theatre tickets and classroom visits to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven through Will Power!, an educational program initiated in 2004. Mr. Bundy's directing credits include The Psychic Life of Savages, The Ladies of the Camellias, All's Well That Ends Well, A Woman of No Importance, Death of a Salesman, and A Delicate Balance at Yale Rep, as well as productions at Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. A recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle's Tom Killen Award for extraordinary contributions to Connecticut professional theatre in 2007, Mr. Bundy currently serves on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for nonprofit theatre. Previously, he worked as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Drama.

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