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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Connecticut Arts Connections

Elizabeth Williamson
Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak has announced the selection of Elizabeth Williamson as the company's Senior Dramaturg and Director of New Play Development. Williamson served the past four years as Associate Artistic Director and Literary Manager for Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, where she founded and ran the theatre's New Play Initiative

In other news, Jill Adams has been elected to serve as the new president of the theatrer's Board of Directors.

The Mark Twain House and Museum presents a screening of the blaxploitation film Cleopatra Jones, a movie about a tough female black James Bond who takes on the drug merchants in her neighborhood On Wednesday, August 22,.

The 1973 film tells the story of Jones (Tamara Dobson), who is a model, but only to provide her cover story.  In reality she's a United States Special Agent specializing in drug trafficking in both the United States and abroad.  She burns down an evil drug lord's poppy field in Turkey, and the dealer -- known as "Mommy" (Shelley Winters) -- swears to get revenge on Jones, hiring the corrupt cop Officer Purdy to help.  Jones heads back to L.A. to continue to take down Mommy's drug business, and eventually Mommy herself.

Cleopatra Jones will be shown at The Mark Twain House & Museum on Wednesday, August 22, at 7:00 p.m.  Admission is $5.00 (free for Mark Twain House & Museum members).

Hartford Stage presents Hedda Gabler, the season opener of the Tony Award-winning theatre's 49th season, on stage from Aug. 30 through Sept. 23. Opening Night will be at 8 pm Friday, Sept. 7.

Roxanna Hope, who played Caroline Cushing in Frost/Nixon on Broadway, stars as Hedda Gabler. Also cast are John Patrick Hayden, Sam Redford, Sara Topham, Thomas Jay Ryan. Kandis Chappell and Anne O'Sullivan.

Jennifer Tarver, the award-winning Canadian director, who is closely associated with The Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, will helm the Jon Robin Baitz adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece.

Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts opens its 2012-2013 signature lecture series, Open VISIONS Forum, with legendary broadcast journalist and co-editor of 60 Minutes Leslie Stahl at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, September 19, 2012. The award-wining journalist’s lecture is entitled “Inside 60 Minutes.” Following Leslie Stahl’s presentation, there will be an informal conversation and discussion with Professor Philip Eliasoph, OVF moderator, and Dr. James Simon, a former Associated Press reporter who created the journalism program at Fairfield University. Single tickets are $45. Moffly Media is the exclusive magazine sponsor for the 2012-13 Open VISIONS Forum series.
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Lauren Yarger with playwright Alfred Uhry at the Mark Twain House. Photo: Jacques Lamarre)

My Bio

Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced
numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont
Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.”

Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway
League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway
run.

She was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill
Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She writes reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway theater (the only ones you can find in the US with an added Christian perspective) at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/. She
is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), CT Press Club's award winner of first place for web editing and second place in feature writing for the web in 2012.

She is a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com and is a theater reviewer for the Manchester Journal-Inquirer. She previously served as Connecticut theater editor
for CurtainUp.com and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web. Yarger is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and freelances for other sites. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

She is a freelance writer and playwright and member of The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, The American Theater Critics Association and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She served as a judge for the SDX Awards presented
by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle (awards committee).

A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts,
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and served for nine years as the Executive Director of Masterwork Productions, Inc. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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