Lecture by Joan Ackerman, local playwright, at the Lenox Library10:57AM / Monday, November 10, 2008
LENOX, Mass - The Lenox Library will present the third program in its 2008-09 Distinguished Lecture Series featuring local playwright and author Joan Ackerman discussing the creative adaptation of written work “From Page to Stage to Screen” on Sunday, November 23rd at 4:00 pm at the Lenox Library.
Playwright, actress, and screenwriter Joan Ackerman is a prolific and successful author. Over a dozen of her plays have been published and produced around the country, and her adaptation of her play “Off the Map” was released as a feature film. Shakespeare and Company produced her play “Ice Glen” recently. Joan is the co founder and Artistic Director of Mixed Company, a twenty-five-year-old theater in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. For seven years she was a special contributor to Sports Illustrated, and her writing has appeared in several other national magazines, including Time, The Atlantic Monthly, and Esquire.
All programs in the Distinguished Lecture Series are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Denis Lesieur at 413-637-2630 or at dlesieur@lenoxlib.org.
All of the programs in the lecture series are scheduled for Sunday at 4:00 pm at the Lenox Library. Among future programs scheduled are:
February 15, 2009 “My Latest Novel – I’m Serious This Time” by Daniel Klein, co-author of the international bestseller, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy through Jokes.
March 15, 2009 a panel discussion on “Women In The Arts” including Tina Packer of Shakespeare & Company; Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company; Kate Maguire of Berkshire Theatre Festival and Tracy Wilson of Berkshire Music School. |
