| Live at The Lortel Announces Jan. and Feb. Guests | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:27 am EST 01/03/22 | |
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| Lucille Lortel Theatre Announces January and February Guests for Season 3 of "Live at The Lortel" January 10 - Zhailon Levingston January 24 - Julie Halston January 31 - Taylor Mac February 7 - Tina Andrews February 28 - Qween Jean Live on YouTube via LiveatTheLortel.com Virtual Live-Streamed Conversation Series Hosted by Eric Ostrow with Co-Hosts Joy DeMichelle and John-Andrew Morrison Features In-Depth Conversations with Famed Theatre Artists New York, NY - Lucille Lortel Theatre has announced the first guests of 2022 for its "Live at The Lortel" podcast series. Now in its third season, "Live at The Lortel" is hosted by Eric Ostrow and co-hosts Joy DeMichelle and John-Andrew Morrison. The program is designed to give theater makers the opportunity to share insight into their creative process and inspiration with a larger audience. These conversations dig deep into the artists' work and career, including past, present, and future projects. This season, Live at The Lortel looks at the intersection between art and activism. We honor the work of theater artists who boldly use their public platform for philanthropy, to advance the state of theater, and to support the issues that they are passionate about. We look to explore how an artist's passion for activism and philanthropy influences their artistry on the stage. This January and February, "Live at The Lortel" welcomes a star-studded roster of guests passionate both in their art and causes. "Live at The Lortel" will feature director Zhailon Levingston (January 10), Tony® Award-winning stage and screen actress Julie Halston (January 24), boundary breaking writer and performer Taylor Mac (January 31), award-winning writer, director, and producer Tina Andrews (February 7), and costume designer Qween Jean (February 28). Additional guests for 2022 will be announced in the coming weeks. The live interviews will take place Mondays at 7:00 PM EST, offering theater fans the opportunity to view interviews and participate in a Q&A with artists. To join the audience, please visit www.liveatthelortel.com. Following each live interview, podcast episodes of "Live at The Lortel" will be available on numerous outlets including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud per the below release schedule. [PHOTOS: click here for artist headshots and series logo.] Zhailon Levingston Monday, January 10 - live Podcast release: January 14 Zhailon Levingston is a Louisiana-raised storyteller, director, and activist. He is a Board Member and Creative Director for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, which he co-created, and teaches the Theatre of Change course at Columbia University. He is a Music Mentor Fellow and has done work with Idina Menzel's A Broader Way Foundation. His directing credits include: Neptune (Dixon Place, Brooklyn Museum), The Years That Went Wrong (Lark, MCC), The Exonerated (Columbia Law School), Chariot Part 2 (Soho Rep., for The Movement Theatre Company), Mother of Pearl (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center). He is the Associate Director of Primer for a Failed Superpower with Tony® Award-winner Rachel Chavkin, and Runaways at The Public Theater with Sam Pinkleton. Most recently. he directed "Chicken and Biscuits" which premiered on Broadway this fall. Zhailon is also the resident director at "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical" on Broadway and the associate director of "Hadestown" in South Korea. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Broadway Advocacy Coalition Monday, January 17 - NO SHOW Julie Halston Monday, January 24 - live Podcast release: January 28 Julie Halston ( Titania/Elizabeth) was awarded the 2020 Isabelle Stevenson Tony® Award for her advocacy with The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.. Last seen co-starring in Tootsie on Broadway, she also received the Richard Seff Award for her performance in You Can't Take It with You. Other Broadway credits: Hairspray, Gypsy, Anything Goes and The Twentieth Century. A founding member of Charles Busch's theatre company, she co-starred with him in numerous productions including The Divine Sister (Drama Desk Nom), Red Scare on Sunset (Drama Desk Nom) and The Lady in Question. Television credits include Gossip Girl , The Good Fight, Almost Family and Divorce. She is reprising her role as Bitsy Von Muffling in the Sex and The City reboot, And Just Like That. Her YouTube series "Virtual Halston" became a pandemic hit with over 40 episodes. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Taylor Mac Monday, January 31 - live Podcast release: February 4 Taylor Mac (who uses "judy"-lowercase sic-as a gender pronoun) is the author of The Hang (composed by Matt Ray); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music; The Fre; Hir; The Walk Across America for Mother Earth; The Lily's Revenge; The Young Ladies Of; Red Tide Blooming; The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac; and the revues Comparison is Violence; Holiday Sauce; and The Last Two People on Earth: an Apocalyptic Vaudeville (created with Mandy Patinkin, Susan Stroman and Paul Ford) . Mac is the first American to receive the International Ibsen Award, is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play, and the recipient of the Kennedy Prize (with Matt Ray), the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert Award, a Drama League Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, the Booth, two Helpmann Awards, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, two Obie's, two Bessies, and an Ethyl Eichelberger award. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: The LGBT Asylum Task Force https://www.lgbtasylum.org/ Tina Andrews Monday, February 7 - live Podcast release: February 11 Tina Andrews is an international award-winning writer, director, and producer. She wrote and Executive Produced the 4-hour CBS miniseries, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal on Thomas Jefferson and his enslaved mistress for which she won the Writers Guild of America Award for "Outstanding Longform Television," and two NAACP Image Awards for "Outstanding TV Movie, Miniseries or Special" and "Outstanding Literary, Nonfiction" for her book. Andrews also wrote and Executive Produced the CBS miniseries, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and the Warner Bros. film, Why Do Fools Fall in Love. Current projects include From Selma to Sorrow about civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo killed by the Klan in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march; and is series Creator/Executive Producer of a new HBO MAX period drama, Buckingham based on her play and internationally acclaimed novel, Charlotte Sophia. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: American Cancer Society and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions Monday, February 14 - NO SHOW Monday, February 21 - NO SHOW Qween Jean Monday, February 28 - live Podcast release: March 4 Qween Jean is a New York City based Costume Designer who has draped over 50 shows and counting. She is the founder of Black Trans Liberation and has fully committed her voice for the advocacy of marginalized communities, with an emphasis on Black Trans people. Through this work she is passionate about creating not only space, but access for unsung heroes and folks who are often overlooked, shunned and abandoned. She feels their stories are valuable and deserve recognition. In 2021 Qween was MOMA PS1's artist in residency and co-curated Memoriam and Deliverance, an installation that called awareness to the last five years of transphobic fatal violence while celebrating Black Trans leaders in the community. She was also the opening speaker for the March on Washington March on for Voting Rights. Her shows include; Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theatre), One in Two (The New Group), Siblings Play (Rattlestick), Amen Corner (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), Rags Parkland (Arvs Nova), Little Shop of Horrors (Trinity Rep) , Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), McBeth in Stride (American Repertory Theatre, Boston ), Othello (Trinity Rep), Wig Out!, Semblance (NYTW), Waiting for Godot (The New Group), The Loophole (The Public), Playboy of the West Indies, A Doll's House and the highly acclaimed What to Send Up, When it Goes Down by Aleshea Harris (BAM & Playwrights Horizons). Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Black Trans Liberation ABOUT ERIC OSTROW Eric Ostrow is proud to be the host and co-creator of the Live at The Lortel podcast series. Eric is a lover of stories and how theater artists in New York tell their tales. Starting off with the live interviews at the Lucille Lortel Theater to its current form, Eric is thrilled to curate and document these artists journeys and share them with students, audiences and other artists. Eric recognized a niche with the incredible theater artists in New York and became passionate about creating a space for these artists' stories to live on and be celebrated. Eric Ostrow trained in NYC and earned an MFA in acting/performance at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He has worked Off-Broadway, regionally, in film, and voice-overs. Eric has taught and coached actors for film, television, and Broadway. Eric created and headed The Dramatics Department at NYC's Xavier High School and was on faculty at The Maggie Flanigan Studio. Eric recently hosted The Drama League Director Fest interviewing artists about their career for their students and alumni. Eric hopes these interviews inspire listeners to celebrate their own journeys. ABOUT JOY DeMICHELLE Joy DeMichelle is an actress, storyteller, and self-healing practitioner. On stage her work has been seen across the country at South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, Fountain Theatre, American Place Theatre, and various others. Joy's screen appearances include but are not limited to: Snowfall, "For the People" (with Anna Deavere Smith), "Criminal Minds," "Parenthood," "Lie to Me" (with Tim Roth), American Gun (with Forest Whitaker), Taking Back Our Town (with the late Rudy Dee) to name a few. She received her MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts where she received the prestigious Bettenbender Award for Outstanding Performance and her BFA from North Carolina A & T State University. Joy's is the founder of Heal & Create, a creative collective of Rutgers University - Mason Gross School of the Arts alumni, focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Joy's deep calling to explore human behavior and the power of healing arts led her to create Bolster Your Joy™, for women + creative professionals to manage the stresses of life, re-write their stories and build a life of joy. ABOUT JOHN-ANDREW MORRISON John-Andrew Morrison is a Lucille Lortel Award winning actor for his performance in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical A Strange Loop. In addition, John-Andrew along with the entire cast and creative team, won an OBIE Award for that production. In the same Off-Broadway season John-Andrew won an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance in the Off-Broadway Premiere of Blues for an Alabama Sky with KEEN Company. John-Andrew's work has been seen at theaters and cabaret venues around New York City including La Mama, Classical Theater of Harlem, Classic Stage Company, Joe's Pub, 54 Below and more. Regionally his work has been seen at theaters including Hartford Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and more. John-Andrew holds a BA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University and an MFA in Acting from UCSD. John-Andrew hails from Kingston, Jamaica and is a lecturer in musical theater at The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. ABOUT LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE Lucille Lortel Theatre's mission is to sustain and advance Off-Broadway by creating awareness, appreciation, and encouraging the continued growth of Off-Broadway; assisting with theatrical infrastructure and capacity building; and developing educational programs fostering the next generation of theatre makers. The Theatre's programs include Live at The Lortel (a video interview and podcast series), NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship, Lucille Lortel Awards and Playwrights' Sidewalk, Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDB.com), Fellowships in Theatre with Bennington College, Non-Profit Theatre Strategic and Management Services, and Subsidized Theatre Space. For more information, please visit www.lortel.org. |
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