Afterwords

Date Guest Creative & Cast Moderator
September 18
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Julie Gilbert,
Foster Hirsch,
Anne Kaufman.
  Lisa McNulty
September 25
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Dan Callahan,
Foster Hirsch
  David Shookhoff

JULIE GILBERT was born into a literary and theatrical family. Her mother was actress Janet Fox and her great aunt was the writer Edna Ferber. Julie is a novelist and a biographer. She was nominated for a National Book Critic’s Circle Award for Ferber (Doubleday) and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard (Pantheon). She has taught fiction writing at NYU, FAU, and currently runs the Writer’s Academy at the Kravis Center of the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. Julie is also a produced playwright, winning an L.A. DramaLogue Award for the The Cottage, the Jerry Bock Award for Best New Musical for an adaptation of Dinner at Eight as well as a Theatre Building Presentation in Chicago, a workshop at London’s Drury Lane Theatre and a workshop at the Century Theater in New York.

FOSTER HIRSCH is professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of 16 books on film and theatre, including Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway and, most recently, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King (Knopf). He is a frequent host/moderator at numerous venues including the American Cinematheque, the Harvard Club, the National Arts Club, and Film Forum. He has lectured on film in India, Israel, Dubai, China, New Zealand, England, France, Saudi Arabia, and Germany.

ANNE KAUFMAN is the daughter and only child of George S. Kaufman. Since his death in 1961 she has championed her father’s legacy by being involved with full-fledged revivals of his plays across the country and abroad. Several years ago Lincoln Center produced Dinner at Eight another play written with Edna Ferber. The Roundabout Theatre Company opened the American Airlines Theatre in 2000 with The Man Who Came to Dinner starring Nathan Lane. Abroad, the Royal Shakespeare Company had a fabulous success with Once in a Lifetime directed by Trevor Nunn. And three years ago Peter Hall directed The Royal Family starring Judi Dench. Hopefully the sun never sets.

DAN CALLAHAN is the former arts editor of Show Business Weekly and book editor at Culturedose.net. He has written for Time Out New York, Slant Magazine and Senses of Cinema and is a theater critic for The L Magazine.