A Conversation with F. Murray Abraham
Tuesday, February 21 at 6 p.m.
Best known for the Academy Award he earned as Salieri in the 1984 film version of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, F. Murray Abraham has also played key roles in such cinematic classics as The Sunshine Boys (1975), All the President’s Men (1976), Scarface (1983), The Name of the Rose (1986), Looking for Richard (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Finding Forrester (2000), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs(2018).
Viewers of TV’s Homeland (2012-18) will recall that Murray received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. And those who’ve been riveted by The White Lotus will know that he was recently nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in that popular attraction.
Meanwhile, NAC members will recall a star-studded 2010 gala at which Murray received the prestigious Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts. Saluting him on that occasion were such luminaries as director Oskar Eustis of the Public Theater and actors Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
Presiding over this evening’s conversation with Murray will be John F. Andrews of The Shakespeare Guild, who recently arranged a historic gathering in honor of Sir John Gielgud at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.