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SUMMARY:John Collins & Scott Shepherd with Tom Sellar - Elevator Repair Service | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated\, perplexed\, scandalized\, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Building on a rich history of staging modernist works—Gatz\, The Sound and the Fury\, The Select (The Sun Also Rises)—Elevator Repair Service (ERS) takes on this Mount Everest of twentieth-century literature. \nElevator Repair Service (ERS) is a New York City–based company that creates original works for live theater with an ongoing ensemble. The company’s shows are created from a wide range of texts that include found transcripts of trials and debates\, literature\, classical dramas\, and new plays. Founded in 1991\, ERS has created an extensive body of work that includes upwards of 20 original pieces. These have earned the company a loyal following and made it one of New York’s most highly acclaimed experimental theater companies. The company is best known for Gatz\, its award-winning verbatim staging of the entire text of The Great Gatsby. ERS has received numerous awards and distinctions\, including Lortel awards\, a Bessie award\, and an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence\, as well as a Guggengheim Fellowship and Doris Duke Performing Artist Award for Artistic Director John Collins. \nFor their Penny Stamps event\, Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins and Scott Shepherd will discuss the founding of ERS\, the arc of its work\, the importance of literature as a cultural influence\, and their upcoming performance\, Ulysses\, which will be staged as part of the University Musical Society’s 2024-25 season. \nJohn Collins (Director) founded Elevator Repair Service in 1991. Since then he has directed or co-directed all of the company’s productions while also serving as the company’s Artistic Director. ERS productions directed by Collins include Cab Legs\, Room Tone\, Gatz\, The Select (The Sun Also Rises)\, The Sound and the Fury\, Arguendo\, Measure for Measure\, and numerous others. The company’s work\, under his direction\, has been seen in over a dozen countries as well as in cities across the U.S. John is an experienced sound designer and has worked for The Wooster Group\, Richard Foreman\, Target Margin Theater\, and others. Recent projects include Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge\, and a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a United States Artists Fellowship\, and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. \nScott Shepherd (Performer\, Co-Director\, Dramaturg) has been a member of ERS since 1994\, when he played a drunk passed out on a radiator in McGurk: A Cautionary Tale. Other ERS appearances include Measure for Measure; Gatz (Obie Award); No Great Society; Total Fictional Lie; Cab Legs; and Shut Up I Tell You. He has worked with The Wooster Group since 1997\, playing Hamlet in Hamlet and other roles in The Town Hall Affair; Vieux Carré; Poor Theater (Obie Award); To You\, The Birdie!; Brace Up!; and others. His screen credits include Killers of the Flower Moon\, The Last of Us\, First Cow\, El Camino\, True Detective\, The Young Pope\, and Bridge of Spies. \nThis event will be an interview conducted by Tom Sellar\, a writer\, editor\, dramaturg and curator\, editor of Yale’s international journal Theater\, and professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale. Sellar’s arts writing and criticism has appeared in national publications including Artforum\, BOMB\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, 4Columns\, TheatreForum\, and American Theatre. \nElevator Repair Service will perform Ulysses at the Power Center on October 19th at 7:30 p.m. and October 20th at 2:00 p.m..  For more information and to order tickets\, visit UMS.org. \nLearn More>> \nPresented in partnership with University Musical Society. \nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Radio. \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2024 Season\nThis fall\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit PBS and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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