Perspectives on Performance is a Harvard Theater, Dance & Media program (TDM) series that invites prominent artists and academics working at the edges of their disciplines to speak about their work in and on interdisciplinary performance. Join us at ArtLab for an interactive dialogue between David Levine and guest artist Anne Washburn, who will be in residence at ArtLab developing the immersive theater installation, The Murder Room, with TDM students.
The Murder Room is a crowdsourced collection of brainstorms, hopes, diagnostics, history and dreaming about the current vexing and exhilarating state of American Theater, expressed in the classic TV show form of the evidence board. (There will be red string!) Each time The Murder Room is mounted, it grows through the contributions of community members in each locale, creating an evolving portrait of Theater in America.
American playwright Anne Washburn’s work has been produced nationally and internationally and has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Fogler, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Whiting, a Guggenheim, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award for an artist in mid-career, an NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan.
David Levine, Interim Chair of the Theater, Dance & Media program (TDM), creates work encompassing theater, performance, video, and photography. The Brooklyn Museum, Creative Time, MoMA, REDCAT, The MCA Chicago, MACBA, Mass MoCA, PS122, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts have presented his performance and exhibition work. It has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Theater, BOMB, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He has received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 OBIE award, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the MacDowell Colony, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. Photo: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.