From Philomathean Society

Past Events

Wednesday, April 23, 7pm
Deb Margolin performs her solo piece:
O Wholly Night and Other Jewish Solecisms

Deb Margolin is a playwright, performance artist and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company, She is the author of six full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, as well as numerous plays, and is the recipient of a 1999-2000 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Her play Bringing the Fishermen Home premiered at the Cleveland Public Theater in 1999. Deb has enjoyed commissions from the Jewish Museum of New York, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Actor's Theater of Louisville and other theaters, has lectured extensively at universities throughout the country, has been artist in residence at Hampshire College and University of Hawaii and Zale writer-in-residence at Tulane University, and is currently a faculty lecturer in Playwriting and Performance in Yale University's Theater Studies Program. She served in the fall of 2000 as artist in residence in New York University's Department of Undergraduate Drama, and has served additionally as a theater panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts and the Philadelphia State Council on the Arts. A book of Deb's performance pieces and plays, entitled Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press.

http://www.yale.edu/theaterstudies/bios/margolin.html

And other words of praise for "O wholly night and other Jewish Solecisms"

"A deft and delightful balancing act"- The Dallas Morning News "Fresh and amusing"- The New York Times "This woman can spin ideas with a speed that makes the Grand Prix seem sluggish" - The Dallas Morning News "A poetry of strong, fresh images and unexpected insights" - Backstage