New School Free Seminar with Robert Lupone and Bernard Telsey on Monday November 28

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA PRESENTS SEMINARS AT TISHMAN AUDITORIUM

Robert LuPone, Interim Director, The New School for Drama in Conversation with Bernard Telsey, Casting Director, The Odd Couple, The Color Purple, and Sweeney Todd The New School Drama Seminars at Tishman Auditorium Monday, November 28, 2005, at 7:30 p.m.

WHAT:

Building on its tradition of providing a forum to explore the craft and concerns of the theatrical community, The New School for Drama presents a new seminar series, The New School Drama Seminars at Tishman Auditorium, where interim director Robert LuPone engages in conversation with industry leaders on a range of issues. On Monday, November 28, LuPone is joined by renowned casting director, manager, producer, and artistic director Bernard Telsey to discuss the current theatrical market, as well as the challenges of casting and producing.

Because of his diverse theatrical experience, Telsey offers a unique perspective into the industry - his company, Bernard Telsey Casting, Inc., has cast such Broadway and Off-Broadway shows as the upcoming The Odd Couple, The Color Purple, Tarzan, and Sweeney Todd. Other credits include Wicked, Glengarry Glen Ross, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Rent. Film credits include the upcoming Rent, as well as Pieces of April, Finding Forrester, and HBO's Undefeated. He is the artistic co-director of MCC Theater in New York and helps casts all the plays and readings produced by MCC.

New School Drama Interim Director Robert LuPone, a member of The Actors Studio, appeared on Broadway in True West, A Thousand Clowns, A View from the Bridge, Late Nite Comic, Zoya's Apartment, Swing, St. Joan, and Nefertiti and as Zach in A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway credits include Pericles, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Black Angel, Lennon, and Snow Orchid. He is president of the board of ART/NY, as well as artistic co-director of MCC Theater in New York City.

WHEN: Monday, November 28, 2005, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Tishman Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York

TICKET INFO: Free admission, no tickets required

GENERAL INFO: For more information, contact The New School for Drama, 212.229.5859

At The New School for Drama, the instinct to create is revered. Through its interrelated, three-year MFA program in acting, directing, or playwriting, the school is forging the next generation of performing artists. A faculty of working professionals brings to the fore each student's unique and original voice, and helps them establish a rooted sense of who they are as individuals and as artists. The New School's history in the dramatic arts began in the 1940s, when the Dramatic Workshop, led by founder Erwin Piscator and a faculty including Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, fostered artistic voices as distinctive as Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando. Since 1994, the university has offered an MFA degree in the performing arts. For more information, visit www.drama.newschool.edu.