Donald Margulies to Speak at Chapman University, 3/17

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies will talk about writing for the theatre, film and television at Chapman University on Saturday, March 17 at 3 p.m. The event is free to the public.

Margulies’ speech will include selected readings from his plays Sight Unseen, Collected Stories and Dinner With Friends by actors Kandis Chappell and Bill Brochtrup. He will conclude by taking questions from the audience.

This appearance coincides with South Coast Repertory’s 20th anniversary production of Sight Unseen (March 11-April 1).

After its SCR premiere in in 1991-92 Season, Sight Unseen went on to a New York production, winning the coveted OBIE Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Margulies’ other SCR-commissioned world premieres include Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winner and Pulitzer Prize nominee Collected Stories and Brooklyn Boy, which was produced on Broadway and at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris. His Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends had its West Coast premiere at SCR in 1998, and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment debuted at SCR in 2007. Other credits include Time Stands Still, which had a Broadway run in 2010, and the teleplay of Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex for HBO.

Chappell has appeared in numerous plays at SCR, including the world premiere (and 2009 revival) of Collected Stories. She is the winner of four Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards and appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Rumors and Getting Away with Murder by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. Brochtrup, another SCR favorite, is a film, television and stage actor whose credits stretch from New York to LA and who is best remembered by television fans for playing PAA John Irvin for seven seasons of “NYPD Blue.”

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