Friday, May 7, 2010

Myths on Stage: Meet Panelist Sarah Sapperstein

Myths on Stage
Sunday, May 16,
following the 3:00pm matinee of The Love of the Nightingale.


Paul G. Miller hosts a panel of Chicago directors and playwrights who discuss the process of adapting Greek myths to the modern stage.

Panelists include:
Marti Lyons - Dramaturge, The Love of the Nightingale at Red Tape
Jeremy Menekseoglu - Artistic Director, Dream Theatre Company

Thomas Murray - Director, Strangeloop Theatre

Tim Speicher – Artistic Director, State Theatre

Cory Tamler - Playwright


and:


Sarah Sapperstein, Dramaturge. Sarah holds a dual degree in musical theatre and Classicaland Near Eastern language, literature, and archaeology from the Univ.of Redlands, in southern California. Her academic focuses includecosmogony, archaeological representations of literary figures, comparative text analysis and translation bias, and contemporary retellings of Classical drama and epic. Since 2005, Sarah has been apart of over 30 theatre and musical theatre projects and premieresthroughout Chicagoland, and performed in Univ. of Detroit's productionof The Bacchae on their 2009 summer tour of Greece. In hernon-existent free time, Sarah enjoys road trips, culinary adventure,and healthcare advocacy.


Sarah will be discussing her work with AjaxAntigone at The State Theatre.


The Love of the Nightingale is Jeff Recommended!

It runs May 3-29.

Get your tickets through our website.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool site, I hadn't noticed redtapetheatre.blogspot.com earlier during my searches!
Carry on the good work!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be down... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please reply to my post if you do!

I would appreciate if a staff member here at redtapetheatre.blogspot.com could post it.

Thanks,
Alex