SDCF's One-on-One Conversation Series to Continue with Anne Bogart & Lear deBessonet

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's (SDCF) next One-on-One Conversation features directors Anne Bogart and Lear deBessonet.

SDC Foundation's series of conversations with theatre's prominent artists offers rare insight into the creative process and personal experience of forging an artistic life. Anne Bogart, founder of SITI Company and a prolific, groundbreaking director and theatre theorist, will exchange ideas about process and aesthetics with Lear deBessonet, who is making an indelible mark on the art form with her epic productions that bring together performers from all walks of life

SDCF is the nation's only organization that exists solely to foster, support and promote the craft of theatre directors and choreographers at all levels of career. SDCF produces six One-on-One Conversations annually.

Tickets for this event are $15 for the general public. To purchase tickets, please go to Brown Paper Tickets. Seating is limited.

The National Opera Center is located on 330 Seventh Avenue.

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About the participants:

Anne Bogart is Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Persians, Steel Hammer, A Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women, American Document, Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, War of the Worlds: The Radio Play, Alice's Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives, August Strindberg's Miss Julie, and Charles Mee's Orestes. Operas include Carmen (Glimmerglass), Norma (Washington National Opera) I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Glimmerglass Opera, Nicholas and Alexandra, Los Angeles Opera, Marina A Captive Spirit (American Opera Projects), Lilith and Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera). She is the author of five books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book, And Then, You Act, Conversations with Anne and What's the Story.

Lear deBessonet is the Director of Public Works at the Public Theater. She received Obie and Lilly Awards and a Drama Desk nomination for her direction of Good Person of Szechwan (The Foundry Theatre, Public Theater). For the Public, she has directed pageant-style musical adaptations of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale at the Delacorte, each featuring over two hundred New Yorkers from all five boroughs with cameo appearances from diverse groups including gospel choirs, marching bands, park rangers, and taxi drivers. Her previous large-scale community based projects include The Odyssey at the Old Globe in 2011 and Quixote, a collaboration with homeless shelter Broad Street Ministry in Philadelphia in 2009. She most recently directed Pump Boys and Dinettes for Encores! Off-Center, and has directed shows for LCT3, the Old Globe, the Intiman, the Guthrie, Joe's Pub, Women's Project, Ten Thousand Things, Performance Space 122, 13p, and Clubbed Thumb. Recipient of LMCC's Presidential Award for Artistic Excellence and NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, she has also acted as a visiting professor at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts.