Suddenly Last Summer Hosts Panel: Tenn at 100 9/18

The Hudson Guild Theater's production of Suddenly Last Summer will host a Sept. 18th Special Panel called Tenn at 100: Re-imagining the work of Tennessee Williams.

The panel will address how we currently view Williams' work --how perceptions of his work have changed over the years/are being re-explored and what makes his work relevant today--with a specific focus on Suddenly Last Summer. The panel will include renowned Williams scholars: Dr. Annette J. Saddik, Thomas Keith, and Dr. David Savran.

Biographies of Panelists

THOMAS KEITH is a freelance editor in New York City, Consulting Editor for New Directions Publishing, and an adjunct professor in the Performing Arts Department at Pace University. He is the editor of the upcoming anthology Love, Christopher Street: Reflections on New York
City, and he recently edited Tennessee Williams's The Magic Tower & Other One-Act Plays as well as Williams's last full-length play, A House Not Meant to Stand, for which he also wrote the introduction.

For New Directions Keith has edited over a dozen Tennessee Williams titles including plays, poetry, and prose, and has contributed articles to American Theater Magazine, Tenn at One Hundred, The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia,
andUndiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams. Keith serves as an advisor for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. He has also written articles and chapters on the Scottish poet Robert Burns for The Burns Chronicle, Electric Scotland, The Drouth, Studies in Scottish Literature, Robert Burns in America, Fickle Man: Burns in the 21st Century, and The Oxford Companion to Burns (forthcoming).

JENNIFER-Scott Mobley - Jen-Scott holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Theatre Criticism from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is honored to have moderated several post-show panels for White Horse including, most recently, for CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL. She began her career as an actress working largely as a classical performer. Favorite roles include Viola, Helena, Titania, and Gertrude (three times and counting!). She also wrote, produced, and performed her one-woman show As I Like It -
winner of The Women's Festival Award at The Riant Theatre. Dramaturgy credits include: Brighton Beach Memoirs,Fool for Love (Brooklyn College); Twelfth Night (Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, LA); and Henry IV Part I (BAM). She teaches theater classes at Marymount Manhattan College and also coaches students privately in Shakespeare technique. Jen-Scott served as the AD for the WHTC productions of STATES OF SHOCK and IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTELand curated the reading of Greg Lemoine's Love the One You're With (now called HALF). She performed in the WHTC workshop production of HALFand the staged reading of Richard Vetere's Pages as well as SUITE FOR SUMMER by Robyn Burland and is a proud participant in WHTC's New Play Development
Series: "American Women."

ANNETTE J. SADDIK is an Associate Professor of Theatre and English at CUNY, teaching in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the English department at New York City College of Technology. Her area of specialization is twentieth- and twenty-first-century drama and performance, particularly the work of Tennessee Williams. She is the author of Contemporary American Drama (2007), a history of the postmodern performance of American identity
on the stage since World War Two, and The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (1999), and has edited and introduced a collection of Williams' previously unpublished later plays, The Traveling Companion and Other Plays (2008). In
addition, she has published essays on theater in journals such as Modern Drama, The Drama Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Études Théâtrales, South Atlantic Review, Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and Valley Voices, as well as critical anthologies and encyclopedias of theater history. Dr. Saddik is also working on a new book on Williams, The Strange, The Crazed, The Queer: Tennessee Williams' Late Plays and the Theater of Excess, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Theatre Topics and The Tennessee Williams Annual Review.

DAVID SAVRAN is a specialist in twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. theatre, popular culture, music theatre, and social theory. He is the author of eight books, includingCommunists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. His most recent is Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class, the winner of the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre published in
2008-09. He has, in addition, published two collections of interviews with playwrights and has served as a judge for the Obie Awards and the Lucille Lortel Awards and was a juror for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He is co-editor of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre
and is the Vera Mowry Roberts Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by CYNDY A. MARION
Starring Elizabeth Bove*, LACY J. DUNN*, CAROL ANN FOLEY*, LUÉ
MCWILLIAMS*, HAAS REGEN*, Heather Lee ROGERS, Douglas Taurel*
*Performing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association. AEA approved showcase.
SEPTEMBER 16 - OCTOBER 2, 2011
THE Hudson Guild Theatre
441 West 26th Street, btw. 9th & 10th Ave.
$18
www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444
Running Time: Approx. 90 minutes
Website: www.whitehoresetheater.com

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