Odile Gakire Katese to Receive Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award, 10/16-17

The League of Professional Theatre Women's International Committee celebrates the first Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award to be awarded to Odile Gakire Katese:

Sunday, October 16th, 2011, 5pm-7pm
at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, 972 Fifth Avenue at 79th Street
Please rsvp to: international@theatrewomen.org

Monday, October 17th, 2011
Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Avenue at 35th Street
RSVP specifying which event(s) you will be attending: international@theatrewomen.org

2pm-3:30pm
Odile Gakire Katese "in her own words"
excerpts from Sweet Dreams, Ngwino Ubeho and Book of Life

4:00pm - 6pm
Status and projects of women working in International Theatre
panel discussion moderated by Anne Cattaneo Lincoln Center Theater dramaturg, founder and head of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab and recipient of the prestigious 2011 Margo Jones Award
Gerda Stevenson SCOTLAND, Dijana Milosevic SERBIA, Odile Gakire Katese RWANDA, Deborah Asiimwe UGANDA, Martha Coigney USA

6:30pm - 8pm
An Evening with Odile Gakire Katese
Scenes from Ngwino Ubeho, excerpts from Book of Life and a clip from Sweet Dreams, a film by Lisa Fruchtman and Rob Fruchtman about Odile's unique vision.
Interview followed by Q&A and reception

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMMING
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 6:30pm-8pm, DramaTalk, NYU Tisch Schoolof the Arts
Saturday, October 15th, 2011 3pm-5pm, Bourbon Cafe
Wednesday, October 19th, 20117pm-9pm, Lark Play Development Center RSVP: reservations@larktheatre.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: www.theSegalCenter.org or www.theatrewomen.org

Award Ceremony and Reception hosted by the League of Professional Theatre Women
with additional support from: Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY, Henri Peyre French Institute, Graduate Center, CUNY, Cultural Services of the French EmbassyOdile Gakire Katese

Odile Gakire Katese is a Rwandan playwright, novelist, poet, director and humanitarian and the first recipient Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award.