Carey Perloff in conversation with Jeremy Cohen, Playwrights' Center

Join Carey Perloff and the Playwrights' Center's Jeremy Cohen for a discussion about Perloff's new memoir, Beautiful Chaos: a Life in the Theater, plus writing, community, and much more on Saturday, April 4th, 1pm. The event is co-sponsored by Macalester College's Theater and Dance Department, Chaired by Harry Waters Jr. and is free.

Carey Perloff, award-winning playwright, director, and Artistic Director San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, pens a vibrant and revealing memoir of her twenty-plus years at the helm. She takes on critical questions about leadership and creative inspiration, as well as gender parity in the arts, and delivers an impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today’s world.

Perloff shares behind-the-scenes stories about her collaborations with Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Olympia Dukakis and Bill Irwin, among others, as well as many A.C. T. productions including Philip Kan Gotanda’s After the War, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, The Tosca Project, and The Black Rider (with Tom Waits and Robert Wilson).

The Playwrights' Center is located at 2301 East Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. For more information call 612 332 7481.

Book sales by Boneshaker Books, located just across the street from the Playwrights' Center. (Book sales and signing to be held at the Center following the talk.)

* "Carey Perloff's lively, outspoken memoir of adventures in running and directing theatre will be a key document in the story of playmaking in America."—Tom Stoppard, Playwright