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THORNTON WILDER FELLOW

Robert Schenkkan has been selected as this year’s THORNTON WILDER FELLOW at the MacDowell Colony. Mr. Wilder who wrote much of OUR TOWN at the Colony and won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work, spent many residencies at MacDowell. In 1960, at the first Medal Day celebration, he became the inaugural recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal in the Arts. His family and MacDowell’s board of directors established this Fellowship in recognition of Mr. Wilder’s generous legacy to the Colony.

First Reading of THE GREAT SOCIETY!

The second play in Schenkkan’s two part epic cycle about President LBJ and the morality of power will have

its first reading at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon on July 2nd.

RESIDENCY AT ORCHARD PROJECT

Robert was in residence at the Orchard Project in Hunter, New York from June 10th through the 17th,

working with long-time dramaturg, Tom Byrant, on a revision of THE GREAT SOCIETY. Also in residence were Tina Satter and Half Straddle, Pig Pen, Kerrigan/Lowdermilk, Greg Wohead, Krissy Vanderwarker,

ART’s Jackie Sibblies Drury, the Nichole Canuso Dance company, and Carey Perloff.

SCHENKKAN HONORED AS A COLLEGE OF FELLOWS IN AMERICAN THEATER

Robert Schenkkan was invited to be inducted as a Fellow with the investiture ceremony to be held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in  Washington, DC on Sunday, April 20, 2014.

THE TWELVE HOSTS TWO BACKER AUDITIONS AT THE SIGNATURE THEATER, NYC

Two performances of the The Twelve for invited guests on June 4th and 5th.

A.R.T. Season Includes Witness Uganda and The Tempest With Music and Magic by Tom Waits and Teller

Read on Playbill

American Repertory Theater Announces Full Season

The New York Times

Emmy Winner Bryan Cranston to Star as President Lyndon Johnson in All the Way at A.R.T.

Broadway.com

Bryan Cranston to Star as Lyndon Johnson in Political Drama All the Way at A.R.T.

Playbill

Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston to Star as President Lyndon Johnson in A.R.T.’s All the Way

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