Dawn Bonker
Playwright Donald Margulies who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Dinner with Friends, will talk about writing for the theatre, film and television at Chapman University on Saturday, March 17 at 3 p.m. in the Leatherby Libraries, Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room (2nd floor).
Margulies’ talk 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. Admission is free.
This appearance by one of America’s most lauded playwrights coincides with South Coast Repertory’s 20th anniversary production of Sight Unseen (March 11-April 1), which is considered Margulies’ breakthrough play.
Sight Unseen won 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. 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 is best remembered by television fans for playing PAA John Irvin for seven seasons of NYPD Blue.
The event is co-sponsored by the English Department of Wilkinson College and the Chapman University Student Government Association.
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