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Since late March, Program in Theater Director Jane Cox has invited special guests to join her students for informal conversations about theater-making and the creative process. The broader community is invited to join these virtual conversations on Zoom. We ask — what inspires these significant theater artists? What does community mean to them? How do they think about audiences, casting, design, arts education?

Each virtual event features 20 minutes of conversation with Cox and guest, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A with the audience. All of the guest artists either collaborate with Cox professionally or have connections to the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater.

For the final conversation in the series, newly appointed artistic director of the McCarter Theatre Center Sarah Rasmussen joins Cox in a virtual conversation.

The conversation is free and open to the public. All students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends are welcome and encouraged to attend. The session will be followed from 5:30-6 p.m. by a casual conversation Zoom Room for anyone who wishes to stay.

Join the event on Zoom
Meeting ID: 122 252 650

 

ABOUT

sarah smiling with short wavy brown hairSarah Rasmussen started her first theater company at 14 in her hometown of Sisseton, South Dakota, after seeing a Garland Wright production. Since then she has gone on to a directing, producing and teaching career with critical acclaim for inventive storytelling and a generous exchange between actor and audience. Rasmussen is the incoming Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. She is the former Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she commissioned, directed and produced new plays and musicals. As a director, she loves inclusive projects that have a sense of humor, sublime visual theatricality and strong roles for women – both onstage and behind the scenes. She was recently named Star Tribune‘s Artist of the Year, and is an inaugural recipient of the BOLD Leadership Circle grant. Directing credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theater of Louisville and La Jolla Playhouse. Awards include MN Theater Award for The Wolves, Princess Grace, an Ivey Award for Overall Excellence, Drama League and Fulbright fellowships. She has developed new work with Playwrights’ Center, The O’Neill, The Lark and many others. She is an alum of the Women’s Project, SoHo Rep. and Lincoln Center Directing Labs. Rasmussen was formerly the Resident Director for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab new work development program and Head of MFA Directing at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and her BA in English and Theater from St. Olaf College.

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