A conversation with award-winning Anon(ymous) playwright Naomi Iizuka and Barbara Graziosi, Princeton’s Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Chair of the Classics Department.
The conversation takes place at 5:30 p.m., prior to the 8 p.m. performance of Anon(ymous) at Berlind Theatre.
About Naomi Iizuka
Playwright Naomi Iizuka. Photo courtesy Iizuka
Naomi Iizuka’s plays include 36 Views, Polaroid Stories, Anon(ymous), Language of Angels, Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls, Tattoo Girl, Skin, At the Vanishing Point, Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, Last Firefly, Citizen 13559, and War of the Worlds. Her plays have been produced at theaters across the country including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Goodman, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie Theatre, Cornerstone, Children’s Theater Company, the Kennedy Center, the Huntington Theater, Portland Center Stage, the Public Theatre, Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts, Dallas Theatre Center, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Soho Rep. Iizuka’s plays have been published by Overlook Press, Playscripts, Smith and Kraus, Dramatic Publishing, Sun and Moon Press, and Theatre Communications Group. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Award, an Alpert Award, a Joyce Foundation Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Stavis Award from the National Theatre Conference, a Rockefeller Foundation MAP grant, a National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Artist in Residence grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a PEN Center U.S.A. West Award for Drama, and a Playwrights Center Jerome Fellowship. At Princeton University, she was a 1998 Hodder Fellow and a Berlind Playwright-in-Residence for 2016-17. Iizuka has taught playwriting at the University of Iowa, the University of Texas, Austin, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently the UC Distinguished Professor of Playwriting and Head of Graduate Playwriting at University of California, San Diego.
Admission & Details
Free and open to the public, no tickets or registration required.
Directions
Get directions to the Berlind Rehearsal Room, located off the Berlind Theatre lobby at McCarter Theatre Center.
Accessibility
Berlind Rehearsal Room is an accessible venue. A ramp from street level is available outside the entrance to the Berlind Theatre (off University Place). A button is available for the automatic doors into the lower lobby. Once inside the lobby, the Berlind Rehearsal Room is ahead to the right, on the same flat level as the lobby.
Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations, including Berlind Theatre. Attendees in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
