Sunday
Scholar Series
November 16, 2008
4:10 - 5:10 pm (time approximate after performance)
A free one-hour, post-show panel discussion
with experts on the themes and issues of the play
You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive at the theater by 4:10 pm and enter the theater after the performance ends.
The Sunday Scholars panel will be moderated by TimeLine Board member Peter Kuntz, executive director of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.
The discussion will feature panelists:
Eric Arnesen
Arnesen is a professor of history and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in race, labor and civil rights. He is author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001), Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 (1991) and Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2002) and is editor or coeditor of several other books. A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, he received the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism. He is currently writing a biography of civil rights and labor leader A. Philip Randolph. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of History.
Jonathan Wilson Wilson is a professor of theatre and drama in Loyola University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts. He has also been actively involved in the professional theatre in Chicago and around the country. He has directed such hit shows as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone for the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut, Seven Guitars for the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Alley Theatre (Houston); Desire Under the Elms, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Sylvia, The Old Settler and Of Mice and Men for the Organic Theatre Company (Chicago), From the Mississippi Delta (which had a seven-month run Off Broadway, and was voted by Time Magazine as one of its top ten productions in the United States in the 1992-93 theatre season), and Driving Miss Daisy for the Northlight and Goodman Theatres (Chicago). Recently, Wilson directed a touring production of Fences for the Hartford Stage Company, the Dallas Theatre Center and Portland Center Stage, and received Jeff nominations for Jitney, Two Trains Running and Pantomime for the Pegasus Theatre Company. He was awarded the 2006 Jeff for his direction of Two Trains Running. Wilson holds degrees in Play Direction from Daeman College in Buffalo, New York, the University of Cincinnati, and Northwestern University. At Loyola, he teaches courses in Acting and Play Direction.
