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The Primary Stages School of Theater (PSST) has announced a newly created Master Class Series that was created to provide students the chance to gain rare insight and experience from some of the finest working professionals in the theater. Special guests for the inaugural series include Michael Cristofer, Lisa Kron, Neil LaBute, Craig Lucas, Austin Pendleton, and Adam Rapp.
As a free supplement to the PSST curriculum, all PSST students are invited to attend these special evenings, which have been designed especially by each visiting guest. Attendees will experience a comprehensive and illuminating night that is part lecture, master class, workshop, and Q&A.
Andrew Leynse, Primary Stages Artistic Director had this to say, "We're extremely proud of the School's growth over the last three years and the accomplishments of our students. Looking ahead, the Master Classes will raise the bar even higher for our curriculum, providing our students with insider-knowledge of what life is like for the professional theater artist."
Michael Cristofer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for the Broadway production of his play, The Shadow Box. Other plays include Breaking Up (Primary Stages); Ice (MTC); Black Angel (Circle Repertory Company); The Lady and The Clarinet (Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theater, Off-Broadway and on the London Fringe), and Amazing Grace starring Marsha Mason which received the American Theater Critics Award as the best play produced in the United States during the 1996-97 season. Mr. Cristofer's film work includes the screenplays for The Shadow Box directed by Paul Newman (Golden Globe Award, Emmy nomination); Falling in Love, with Meryl Streep and Robert DeNiro; The Witches of Eastwick with Jack Nicholson; The Bonfire of The Vanities, directed by Brian DePalma; Breaking Up, starring Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek; and Casanova, starring Heath Ledger. As an actor, he has performed in over a hundred plays including Romeo and Juliet (NYSF Central Park), Trumpery (Atlantic Theater), A Body of Water (Primary Stages), The Cherry Orchard (Lincoln Center), The Seagull (with JoAnne Woodward), Three Sisters (Williamstown), and the world premiere of The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner (Guthrie Theater).
