After Words is part of MTC’s continuing effort to deepen and enrich the play-going experience for its audiences. Held after selected Saturday matinees at the Biltmore Theatre, this exciting series of talks with writers, cultural critics, journalists, and members of the MAURITIUS cast and creative team provides provocative and illuminating insights into the political, cultural, and artistic contexts of the work MTC produces at the Biltmore Theatre.


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Guest Speaker Bios

DAVID PETRUZELLI has been a professional philatelist for 30 years. He worked for various auction houses as a writer and appraiser before joining The Philatelic Foundation in Manhattan as a member of their expert committee in 1997. In addition, he has published poetry in various magazines and journals including The New Yorker and Partisan Review. A collection, Everyone Coming Toward You, won the Tupelo Press Judge's Prize for a first book of poetry and was published in 2005.

MERCER BRISTOW has administered the American Philatelic Expertizing Service (APEX) for over 25 years.  APEX is the authentication department of the American Philatelic Society, founded in 1886 with headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania.  He served on the Expert Team for the F.I.P. sponsored international philatelic expositions in New Delhi, India (1997) and in Washington D.C. (2006) and has been a guest speaker at regional stamp shows around the country.  He is also curator of the APS philatelic collections (both genuine and forged material) which he established in 1992.  

MARILYNN GELFMAN KARP is a Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art Professions in the Steinhardt School at New York University.  She is a trustee and board member of the Public Art Fund, the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society and the Preservation League of New York State.  Karp is an actively exhibiting sculptor of international achievement whose mixed medium, found object works are represented in collections nationally and abroad.  As an avid observer of material culture, her collections suggest that the impetus to acquire, organize and integrate is proof that the hunter-gatherer instinct is alive and well.  She has given interviews, presented papers, and participated in panel discussions at museums and universities on various topics within the purview of collecting.