Roundtable/ Speaking of Shakeapeare

With Joanna Read of LAMDA,
London's Oldest Drama School

Friday, October 6
8:00 PM

Interactive Conversation

As we launch our SOS series for 2017-18, we're delighted to do so with Joanna Read, the first woman to serve as Principal of the venerable London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.   
   Before she arrived at LAMDA, Ms. Read distinguished herself as a director and librettist at several other institutions, among them the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, the Salisbury Playhouse, and the Young Vic. She has directed Arthur Miller's Playing for Time, William Nicholson's Shadowlands, and Howard Goodall and Melvyn Bragg's The Hired Man, with such actors as Joanna Riding in leading roles. In recent years she has orchestrated a significant extension of LAMDA's facilities and programs, frequently drawing on support from such dedicated alumni as Jim Broadbent, Brian Cox, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Chiwitel Ejiofor.   
   She will be discussing the roles that drama schools play in the development of today's leading actors and directors.