Writing for Stage and Screen

• Friday, September 20
• 2:30 PM
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine
• 121 Wall Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Playwrights aren’t just playwrights anymore. Whether from opportunity or necessity, they often employ their gifts to bring stories to screens large and small. Both Christopher Chen and Sonya Kelly have experience with writer’s rooms, screenplays and the like. Yale Dean of Humanities Marc Robinson engages them on questions of both creative and practical import.

Marc Robinson is Dean of Humanities in the FAS and Malcolm G. Chace ‘56 Professor of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies and English. He is also Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama. His books include The American Play: 1787-2000 (2009) and The Other American Drama (1994). In addition, he is the editor of four books: Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays and Other Writings (2023), The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan (2012), The Theater of Maria Irene Fornes (1999), and Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile (1994). His new book, American Performance in 1976, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.