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The Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center with BPAC is thrilled to present a conversation with playwright David Adjmi and Prof. Alisa Solomon at Baruch College, CUNY

The Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center with BPAC is thrilled to present a conversation with playwright David Adjmi and Prof. Alisa Solomon at Baruch College, CUNY:

Wednesday, November 11th at 6:30 pm EST on Zoom

Register on Zoom here
https://baruch.zoom.us/.../tZMucO2rqjIsHNIivSQC5...

Register for the event with BPAC here

David Adjmi is the author of the plays The Evildoers, Stunning, 3C and Marie Antoinette. His plays have been produced all over, including at Lincoln Center, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Steppenwolf and Soho Rep and his writing has been featured or profiled in the New York Times, the NY Review of Books, LARB, LitHub, Electric Literature, American Theatre, BOMB, The Guardian and The Rumpus. His newest play, Stereophonic, will premiere on Broadway in 2021, with music by Will Butler (from Arcade Fire.) His memoir entitled Lot Six was recently published by HarperCollins.

Alisa Solomon teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Arts and Culture concentration in the MA program. A theater critic and general reporter for the Village Voice from 1983 to 2004, she has also contributed to The New York Times, The Nation, NewYorker.com and Tablet. Her first book, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender, won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. Solomon has also edited several books, including Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (co-edited with Tony Kushner) and The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater (co-edited with Framji Minwalla).

*please send any questions to carina.pasquesi@baruch.cuny.edu*

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