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| THE ORIGINALIST adds additional post show conversations Talks with Supreme Court lawyers, journalists, as well as cast and creative team scheduled New York, New York July 17, 2018-59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) announces additional post show conversations scheduled during the run of THE ORIGINALIST. The talks feature conversations with attorneys, journalists and Supreme Court specialists as well as the cast and creative team. The full post-show conversation schedule: Friday, July 20: Playwright John Strand, moderated by Mark Bly Tuesday, July 24: Journalist Greg Stohr, moderated by Mark Bly Wednesday, July 25: The cast of THE ORIGINALIST, moderated by Mark Bly Friday, July 27: Supreme Court and appellate lawyer Carter G. Phillips, moderated by Mark Bly Sunday, July 29 (2 pm): Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in conversation with director Molly Smith Wednesday, August 1: The cast of THE ORIGINALIST, moderated by attorney Martin Tackel Sunday, August 5 (2pm): Ian Samuel, Harvard Law Professor and former clerk for Chief Justice Scalia, moderated by humorist Randy Cohen Tuesday, August 7: ACLU President Susan Herman, moderated by Mark Bly Wednesday, August 8: The cast of THE ORIGINALIST, moderated by Mark Bly Sunday, August 12 (2pm): International trade law expert Elliot Feldman, moderated by Mark Bly Tuesday, August 14: Attorney Faith E. Gay, moderated by Mark Bly Wednesday, August 15: The cast of THE ORIGINALIST, moderated by Mark Bly Produced by Arena Stage and Middle Finger Productions, LLC, THE ORIGINALIST, written by John Strand and directed by Molly Smith, is in previews now for a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, August 19. Press Opening is Thursday, July 19 at 7 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Friday at 7 PM; Saturday & Sunday at 2 PM & 7 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison). Single tickets are $25 - $70 ($25 - $49 for 59E59 Members). Tickets are available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.59e59.org. BIOS Mark Bly has dramaturged and produced over 300 classics and new plays at theaters across the country and on Broadway including world premieres and American premieres by Moises Kaufman, Sarah Ruhl, Rajiv Joseph, Kenneth Lin, Suzan-Lori Parks and David Hare. At Arena Stage, he served as Director of The New Play Downstairs Series and Senior Dramaturg under Molly Smith from 2004-2008 where he worked with major artists including Charles Randolph Wright, Lee Breuer, Amy Herzog, Dorothy Fortenberry, Robert Schenkkan and others. He was Chair of the Yale School of Drama MFA Playwriting Program (1992-2004). In 2010 Bly received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Randy Cohen's first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for Late Night with David Letterman for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore's TV Nation. He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For 12 years he wrote The Ethicist, a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, The Punishing Blow, ran at New York's Clurman Theater. His most recent book, Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything, was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program. Elliot J. Feldman's international practice concentrates on all forms of trade disputes and remedies affecting the movement of goods and services across international borders. He advises foreign governments, corporations and organizations on trade policy and international law, and litigates international trade and legal disputes in all relevant forums, inside and outside the United States, on both commercial international law and treaty interpretation. He has been a frequent legal adviser to the government of Canada in World Trade Organization (WTO) cases and he has particular experience with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Elliot founded and is the former director of the University Consortium for Research on North America at Harvard University. Elliot has been ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business since 2007, has been counsel to the People's Republic of China and is a regular contributor to BakerHostetler's China-U.S. Trade Law blog. He is frequently quoted in the foreign press on Chinese affairs related to international trade. Elliot authored Inside the Minds: International Trade Law Best Practices in 2006, and his treatise for Aspen Publishers co-authored with a team of 33 BakerHostetler attorneys under his direction, Mergers & Acquisitions in the United States: A Practical Guide for Non-U.S. Buyers, was first published in 2010, with a Chinese-language edition published in 2011 and updates made by partners on an annual basis. Based on the treatise, Elliot has lectured on the firm's mergers and acquisitions inbound foreign direct investment capability in Brazil, China, India, Japan and Washington, D.C. He is the author or co-author of seven books and in 2013 he co-authored the lead article on international trade and nonmarket economies in the American University Law Review. His client advice on the Softwood Lumber Agreement has been selected by the librarian of the Canadian House of Commons as a historic document. Faith E. Gay is a founding partner of Selendy & Gay. In a nationally-recognized career spanning more than three decades, Faith Gay has been lead counsel in over 30 jury trials and has successfully navigated bet-the-company investigations for scores of Fortune 500 companies. Before founding Selendy & Gay, she was the Co-Chair of National Trial Practice at one of the nation's top litigation firms and a highly respected federal prosecutor. A former Deputy Chief of the Special Prosecutions Unit and of the Civil Rights Division in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Faith has deep experience on offense and defense. Faith divides her time between complex civil litigation, corporate governance, and white-collar investigations. Her long roster of high profile clients whom she has served as national or lead trial counsel includes CCA, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Domtar, ETrade, Home Depot, Novartis, Nuance, Pfizer, Sandoz, and Schwab. Faith has represented individuals and corporations in investigations by the SEC, FINRA, DOJ, FDA, IRS, EPA, DOD, and numerous attorneys general. She has led internal investigations at the request of corporations, boards of directors, and special committees. No individual or corporation that Faith has represented while under investigation has been indicted. Susan Herman was elected President of the American Civil Liberties Union in October 2008 after having served on the ACLU Board of Directors, on its Executive Committee, and as General Counsel. As Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, she teaches courses in Criminal Law and Procedure and Constitutional Law, and seminars on Law and Literature, and Terrorism and Civil Liberties. She writes extensively on constitutional and criminal procedure topics for legal and non-legal publications, ranging from law reviews and books to popular press and online publications. Herman has participated in Supreme Court litigation, writing and collaborating on amicus curiae briefs for the ACLU on a range of constitutional criminal procedure issues, most recently in the case of Riley v. California (cell phone privacy), and has represented the ACLU at multiple meetings at the Senate, White House, and at events of ACLU affiliates and many other organizations. Carter G. Phillips is one of the most experienced Supreme Court and appellate lawyers in the country. He served as law clerk to both Judge Robert A. Sprecher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Phillips was an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice for three years and argued nine cases before the Supreme Court during that time. He has also argued 76 cases before that Court since joining Sidley Austin LLP, for a total of 85 arguments before that Court. Mr. Phillips has argued over 130 cases in U.S. courts of appeals, including at least one in every Circuit. Mr. Phillips is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the current Chair of the Federal Circuit Advisory Council. He serves as Treasurer and on the Board of Trustees of the Supreme Court Historical Society. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Chamber Litigation Center, the public policy law firm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Board of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum. Mr. Phillips graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University and received his J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif from Northwestern University School of Law. John Strand's Arena Stage writing commissions include Snow Child, The Originalist, The Miser, Lovers and Executioners (MacArthur Award) and Tom Walker. Recent works include the book and lyrics for Hat! A Vaudeville (South Coast Repertory); Lincolnesque (Old Globe); Lorenzaccio (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and the book for the musical The Highest Yellow (Signature Theatre). Additional plays are The Diaries (Signature Theatre, MacArthur nomination); Otabenga (Signature Theatre, MacArthur nomination); Three Nights in Tehran (Signature Theatre); and The Cockburn Rituals (Woolly Mammoth). Strand spent 10 years in Paris, where he worked as a journalist and drama critic, and directed NYU's Experimental Theater Wing in Paris. His novel Commieland was published by Kiwai Media, Paris in 2013. He is currently at work on a new play about President Teddy Roosevelt for Arena Stage and on the film adaptation of The Originalist . Greg Stohr has covered the Supreme Court for Bloomberg News since 1998 and co-hosts Bloomberg Radio's Bloomberg Law program. He won the New York Press Club spot news award for his coverage of the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision that resolved the 2000 presidential election and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers breaking news award for the court's 2012 health care decision. His book, A Black and White Case: How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challenge, told the story of the University of Michigan admissions cases resolved by the Supreme Court in 2003. He previously covered the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission for Bloomberg, starting in 1996. He is a 1989 graduate of Saint Louis University, 1995 graduate of Harvard Law School and a former law clerk to U.S. District Judge Frank A. Kaufman in Baltimore. He previously served as press secretary for U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell of California. He has served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, teaching Constitutional Law and the Supreme Court. Ian Samuel's areas of scholarly interest focus on cyberlaw, especially as it intersects with criminal law, security, and intellectual property. He is the author of Warrantless Location Tracking. Ian formerly served in the United States Department of Justice, in the Office of the Solicitor General and on the appellate staff of the Civil Division. Following his government service, Ian joined the appellate litigation practice at Jones Day. While there, he represented clients in a wide variety of complex matters, generally in the federal courts. Ian received his B.S. in computer science from Truman State University, and his J.D. summa cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was a Furman Scholar, Articles Editor of the New York University Law Review, and won the Sommer Memorial Prize for scholarship and character. After law school, he clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States. |
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