Ten Chimneys Foundation to Welcome Olympia Dukakis This March

In collaboration with American Players Theatre, Ten Chimneys Foundation will present A Conversation with Olympia Dukakis. On Thursday, March 24th at 7pm, Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis will take the stage at American Players Theatre's Touchstone Theatre. She will share anecdotes about her remarkable life and career, and will answer questions from the audience - a rare and intimate opportunity.

This collaboration with American Players Theatre debuts Ten Chimneys Foundation's Conversation series at theatres across the country. Randy Bryant, President & CEO of Ten Chimneys Foundation, said of this new partnership, "I greatly appreciate American Players Theatre's contribution to our theatre community. I'm looking forward to introducing Olympia, and her exciting life in the theatre, to their audience. I'm happy our first 'Ten Chimneys Foundation Presents' Conversation is with American Players Theatre. What a wonderful place to begin."

During March 20-27th, Ms. Dukakis will be at Ten Chimneys conducting a private master class on the works of Anton Chekhov. She has been a Master Teacher of acting and directing at Columbia, NYU, Yale, as well as other universities and studios around the United States and Europe. Ms. Dukakis was the Master Teacher for the 2011 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Ten Chimneys and returned in 2015 to lead ten accomplished actors in a private master class.

Randy Bryant said of Olympia's 2016 return to Ten Chimneys, "Olympia Dukakis is a strong advocate of professional education, growth and mentorship - she possesses a dedication to her craft reminiscent of Ten Chimneys legendary theatre greats Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She has gone to great lengths to support the Foundation and our mission, and we are forever grateful. Her commitment to excellence within the context of her classes, and in life, is astounding. We're honored to have her back at Ten Chimneys this spring."

Tickets for A Conversation with Olympia Dukakis at American Players Theatre are $50 and are on sale now. For more information, or to make reservations, ring Ten Chimneys Foundation at (262) 968-4110.

Ten Chimneys, the Wisconsin estate lovingly created by theatre legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is open to the public as a world-class house museum and national resource for theatre, the arts, and arts education. For much of the 20th Century, Ten Chimneys served as a haven for the Lunts and the artistic leaders of their era. The couple hosted acting greats, including Katharine Hepburn, Sir Lawrence Olivier and George Burns. Carol Channing famously said of Ten Chimneys, "there is a peculiar feeling for actors or anybody in the theater that when you went to ten Chimneys you had done something right. You had died and gone to heaven. You were home."

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