Faculty at Home Lecture Series: Scenes From “Aristotle & Alexander”: A New Play About an Ancient Classroom

Last March, theatre professor Dana Yeaton and actor-playwright Cole Merrell ’21 started writing a play together. Their inspiration was the legendary teacher-student relationship between Aristotle and Alexander the Great. Actor Ethan Bowen joined the weekly Zoom sessions to improvise the role of Aristotle, with Merrill playing the teenaged Alexander. Join Bowen and Merrill for a performance of excerpts directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Michole Biancosino. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the cast, Yeaton, Biancosino and the project’s research assistant, Alexander Buchinger Shea ’22. You’ll be part of the script’s first audience, and your feedback will be the next step in its development. 

Dana Yeaton is a playwright and lyricist who teaches dramatic writing and oratory at Middlebury College. His full-length drama Mad River Rising received the Moss Hart Award, and his two-person musical, Swing State, was a featured selection at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Redshirts, his college football story, set at a fictional Division I university, was a Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding New Play. Yeaton is the founder and faculty director of Oratory Now, a center for training and research in oral expression at Middlebury.

Hosted by Sarah Stroup, Associate Professor of Political Science.

Please visit the Faculty at Home website for more information and to register for this free event.