Anna Deavere Smith the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts and Issues Series Presents Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith The SIUE College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts and Issues Series Presents Anna Deavere Smith

Thursday, March 27, 2008 Meridian Ballroom Morris University Center

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Welcome to another memorable Arts & Issues Series season! Welcome to another memorable Arts & Issues Series season! Kent Neely Neely Kent Dean Arts the College & Issues is administered by of Arts and Sci- The Collegeences at SouthernEdwardsville. Illinois University and degree minors, programs excellent provides for its majors, post-graduate students and offers sciences foundation for undergraduate students across the Uni- activities, The College and creative promotes scholarly versity. public service, and cultural arts programming, all of the The central miss highest quality. is to trans- Edwardsville Sciences at Southern Illinois University appearance surely sup- form Smith’s thought and Anna Deavere ports this in April with Pulitzer mission as does our last event Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen. By being a patron of the artist Arts believe does & Issues you not have may But what is that role? We a role in our lives. have but perhaps we’ll this evening, leave when we answer a definitive a little differently. and our world, look at artists,

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Anna Quindlen’s books have appeared on grant from the fiction, nonfiction and self-help best seller lists. Her columns have won her many of Illinois Art journalism’s most prestigious awards, in- cluding the Pulitzer Prize. She became only Counsel, a state the third woman to write for the New York Times influential op-ed page, and currently agency writes a column for Newsweek. Her first novel, the critically-acclaimed Object Lessons, was followed by the best-seller One True Thing, which was made into a major motion picture with Meryl Streep and Rene Zell- weger. Quindlen’s book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million cop- Starbucks Coffee and the ies, while her latest novel, Rise and Shine, debuted on the New York Times bestsellers Morris University Center salutes list at #1. For one memorable evening, The Arts & Issues Series Quindlen shares her wit, charm and intellect with SIUE audiences.

Thursday, April 24, 2008, 7:30pm Meridian Ballroom, Morris University Center Tickets are available at the The Dunham Hall Fine Arts Box office Enjoy the show!

by phone 618/650-2774 Savor a cup of fresh brewed Starbucks Coffee be- or visit fore or after the performance...then take home a bag www.artsandissues.com of your favorite Starbucks blend. Arts & Issues is brought to you by the SIUE College of Arts & Sciences. 2000 2004 Arkansas Rep Theatre Sam Abell Capitol Steps The Aspen Ensemble Anna Deavere Smith George Gallup Tony Blankely Edward James Olmos Blinde Boys of Alabama Hailed by Newsweek as “the most exciting individual in Ameri- Charles Osgood Gov. Howard Dean can theater,” playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Salzburg Marionetts Smith uses her singular brand of theater to explore issues of Gus Giordan Jazz Dance Chicago 2001 race, community and character in America. She was awarded Garrison Keillor the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” Fellowship for The Babes Norman Mailer creating “a new form of theater — a blend of theatrical art, so- Dr. Keith Campbell cial commentary, journalism and intimate reverie.” Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Chicago Brass Quintet 2005 Smith is perhaps best known as the author and performer of Imago two one-woman plays about racial tensions in American cities The Acting Company — Fires in the Mirror (Obie Award-winner and runner-up for Christine Lavin Big Bad Voodoo Daddy the Pulitzer Prize) and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Obie Keweisi Mfume Award-winner and Tony Award nominee). Blind Boys of Alabama Parsons Dance Co. Dallis Brass Combining the journalistic technique of interviewing subjects Straight Ahead from all walks of life with the art of recreating their words in Joan Baez performance, Smith transforms herself onstage into an aston- Nadine Strossen Lady Smith Black ishing number of characters (up to 46 in one show), express- Jack Thompson Mambazo ing their own points of view on controversial issues. Lech Walesa Kathy Mattea Smith plays National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on NBC’s 2002 The West Wing and co-starred in the CBS drama, Presidio David McCullough Med. She has appeared in the films The Human Stain, Boys of the Lough 2006 Philadelphia, Dave, The American President and on TV’s The Mahalia: A Gospel Musical Deepack Chorpra, M.D Practice. The film version of Twilight premiered at the 2000 R. Carlos Nakai Sundance Film Festival. Her latest book (January 2006) is Let- Garrison Keillor ters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in Juan Williams Eileen Ivers the Arts — For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every 2003 Imani Winds Kind. Actor Martin Sheen called it, “A practical manual for any Robert Ballard artist as well as a powerful reminder of how we can and should BeavSoleil live through our art.” Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues North Carolina Dance Theatre In 1998 in association with the Ford Foundation, Smith National Theatre of the Deaf Glen Miller Orchestra founded the Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue at Harvard San Jose Taiko 2007 (now at New York University). The Institute's mission is to ex- Dr. David Satcher plore the role of the arts in relation to vital social issues. Judy Collins Gloria Steinem Smith is a tenured professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at Gen. Barry R. MaCaffrey Helen Tomas New York University and is affiliated with the NYU School of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Law. Smith is working on a book about art and politics and George Winston Sandra Reaves-Phillips recently finished her new play Let Me Down Easy. Arlo Guthrie Anna Deavere Smith Anna Quindlen

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*This program is partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. 1988 Jack Anderson friends of arts & issues Dr. Karen Patty-Graham & Chinese Music Society of North America ($50-$499) continued Mr. Larry D. Graham Elisa Monte Dance Company Susan Rieken Miki Mandela John and Karen Hunt Cynthia & Michael Reinhardt Nebraska Theatre Caravan Dr. Poonam Jain & Patricia Sim Lester Thurow Dr. Rajneesh Jain Jennifer Strohl Tokyo String Quartet Arts and Issues 1985-1007 Lord Harold Wilson Larry Lexow, Lexow Richard Tognarelli 1985 1989 Financial Group Karen K. Trone Alvin Ailey Rep Ensemble “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” Gerry LeClaire Shirley & Joseph Waide John Kenneth Galbraith Imago Jeffrey C. McLellan and Rich & Missy Walker 1986 Indianapolis Ballet Theater Dr. Judith F. McLaughlin Brenda Wilson William F. Buckley Marian McPartland Dick H. Mudge, Jr. Endowment Carolyn and Robert Winnett Dr. Jeffery Butler Ed Meese Kent and Esther Neely Ronald Winney Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Negro Ensemble Company Dr. Robert and Penny Parish Susan and Larry Yager John Cothran Jr. Susan Sontag Dr. Michael Debakey 1990 A Special “Thank You” to the Festival of India American Boychoir

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