Antlia Pneumatica Symposium : Where the Playwright Asks the Questions with Anne Washburn

The Playwrights Horizons' Antlia Pneumatica Symposium: Where the Playwright Asks the Questions with Anne Washburn livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 16 April at 21:00 BST (London) / 20:00 GMT / 4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 1 p.m. PDT (Vancouver). In Twitter, use #howlround. 

Join us for this season’s third Symposium event, where the playwright asks the questions! Writer Anne Washburn will join members of Antlia Pneumatica’s design team in a discussion about the production. The hour-long discussion will also feature a Q&A with the audience.  

The Symposium Series was inaugurated to explore the work we produce in a broader cultural context. Supplementing our regularly-programmed series of post-performance discussions—which provide opportunities for our audiences to engage with our playwrights—Symposium events allow writers to lead a big-picture conversation with a panel of unique experts to address topics surrounding their plays. This season, we continue the tradition in the hope of extending the conversations elicited by our productions beyond the stage and into the community. 

About the Panel 

Anne Washburn's (Moderator, Playwright) plays include 10 Out of 12, Mr. Burns, The Internationalist, A Devil At Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small, and transadaptations of Euripides’ Orestes and Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has been premiered by 13P, Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Folger Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep., Two River Theater, Vineyard Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Whiting, a Guggenheim, an Alpert Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a mid-career playwright, and a NYFA Fellowship, and she was a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Chochiqq, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P. 

Rachel Hauck (Scenic Design). Previously for Playwrights Horizons: Grand Concourse, The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, The Call, Go Back To Where You Are, 100 Saints You Should Know. Other theatre: Night Is a Room, Our Lady of Kibeho, And I and Silence (Signature); Bright Half Life (Women’s Project); To the Bone (Cherry Lane); Hamlet in Bed, Stay (Rattlestick); An Iliad (NYTW, McCarter, tour); Slowgirl (LCT3); Harper Regan, Bluebird (Atlantic); Regrets (MTC); This Wide Night (Naked Angels); Orange, Hat & Grace (Soho Rep.). Resident set designer at the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference until 2014. Princess Grace and Lilly awards recipient. 

Jessica Pabst (Costume Design). Broadway: The Heidi Chronicles. Playwrights Horizons: Marjorie Prime, The Qualms, Pocatello, Grand Concourse, The Whale (Lucille Lortel Award), Assistance. Recent New York productions include Exit Strategy (Primary Stages); Her Requiem, Kill Floor (LCT3); King Liz (Second Stage); The Nether (MCC); I’m Going To Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Fortress of Solitude (The Public); When We Were Young and Unafraid, By the Water, Murder Ballad, Taking Care of Baby (MTC); and Buyer and Cellar (Barrow Street Theatre, National tour, Rattlestick). Her work has also recently appeared at Vineyard Theatre, NYTW, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist. 

Leah Gelpe (Sound Design). Playwrights Horizons: Grand Concourse, The Big Meal, Circle Mirror Transformation. Off-Broadway: Night Is a Room (Signature); The Invisible Hand (NYTW); Slowgirl, What Once We Felt (LCT3); God’s Ear (Vineyard); Saved (TFANA); among others. Other New York theatre: Card and Gift, Telethon, Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb); Judy, Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (Page 73); A Summer Day (Rattlestick). Regional: Guthrie, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, A.R.T., Intiman, Berkeley Rep. Honors: Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Henry Hewes nomination, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Sound Design.

Daniel Kluger (Original Music). He has produced music and sound design for theatre and film. He recently did the orchestrations for Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! at Bard SummerScape. Other New York credits include: Marjorie Prime, Iowa, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra (Playwrights Horizons); The Mystery of Love and Sex, Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center); Significant Other, The Common Pursuit (Roundabout); Lost Girls, The Nether, The Village Bike, Really Really (MCC); You Got Older (P73); Somewhere Fun, The North Pool (Vineyard); Tribes, Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre). Regional: The Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Pig Iron, Yale Rep.

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected], or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.