Kalita Humphreys Theater at Turtle Creek: Theater, Architecture and Cultural Importance

May 4, 2019 | 11:30 a.m. Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

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“Integration means that no part of anything is of any great value in itself except as it be an integrate part of the harmonious whole.” – Frank

Ann Abernathy has been a practicing architect since 1979 and has devoted her career to enlivening our relationships with the built envi- ronment. She has taught architectural design at MIT and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ann was project architect for the restoration of the Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois, where her work was recognized with the AIA’s National Honor Award. Ann also led the effort to secure City of Historic Landmark designation for the Kalita Humphreys Theater building in 2005. While at Booziotis & Co. Architects, she led a multidisciplinary team of cross-national consultants in developing The Dallas The- ater Center Master Plan, which was completed in 2010.

Richard Brettell is among the foremost authorities in the world on Impressionism and French Painting of the period 1830-1930. With three degrees from Yale University, he has taught at the University of , Northwestern University, The University of Chicago, Yale University and Harvard University. He is currently Vice-Provost of the University of Texas at Dallas as well as Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetics Studies in the Interdisciplinary Program in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, and the Founding Director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, which is housed at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Dallas Museum of Art. Since 2015, Dr. Brettell is the Art Critic for the Dallas Morning News. His name was recently attached to an important award, The Brettell Award in the Arts, made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Margaret McDermott.

Lee Cullum is a prominent TV, radio and print journalist. She currently hosts CEO, which features interviews with business leaders, pro- duced monthly for PBS by KERA in Dallas. A lifelong Dallas resident and a founding reporter on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer for 18 years, Lee is a frequent contributor on the arts to the Dallas Morning News. She was editor of the editorial page of the Dallas Times Herald, a political analyst for CBS, moderator of panels at the World Economic Forum at Davos, and currently serves on multiple boards, as a senior fellow of the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and as a fellow of the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture.

Robyn Flatt is Co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Dallas Children’s Theater. Her acting career began in the Kalita Hum- phreys Theater, where she was a member of the original repertory acting company, under the direction of legendary founding artistic director Paul Baker, who was her father. Robyn continues to educate and inspire others to cultivate creative thought through the Baker Idea Institute.

Mark Lamster is the award-winning architectural critic of the Dallas Morning News, a professor in the architecture school at the Universi- ty of Texas at Arlington, and a 2017 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His acclaimed biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, The Man in the Glass House, was published in 2018 by Little, Brown. Lamster has been recognized by the Associated Press and the Society for Features Journalism for his writing and lauded for his “sharp analytical eye” by the alt weekly Dallas Observer. He was the recipient of the David Dunnigan Media Award from the Greater Dallas Planning Council in 2014 and the Robert Decherd Award for Civic Journalism, the paper’s highest honor, from the Dallas Morning News in 2015. Lamster has been a contributing editor to Architec- tural Review, Design Observer and ID and writes often for Architect, Architectural Record and Metropolis, among other design titles.