Inaugural Lecture Cheryl Faraone

In her Inaugural Lecture as Isabel Riexinger Mettler ‘39 Professor of Theatre, entitled “Practice as Research: Working in the Academic and Professional Theatre” Cheryl Faraone provides a thirty-five year overview of her work in both theatrical arenas. The talk particularly references the creation of companies, the necessity of collaboration, and the central position of the academic arena as laboratory and gestator of theatre in America. There is particular reference to the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP/NYC), Middlebury’s affiliated theatre company.

Reception precedes the lecture at 4:00 p.m. in lobby.