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Concessions and Souvenirs D. Mark Singletary Participants 24 Posters, T-shirts, book bags, and Associate Publisher: note cards created especially for Lisa Blossman the Festival. Digital downloads of select discussions will be available for Custom Publishing purchase through the Festival website. Editor: TImhe Tpenonesrsete aWnilliatm sR/Neew mOrleians deBrecs ause of variations in attendance, Christian Moises Literary Festival is a non-profit, tax- the purchase of a Festival panel pass Refreshments exempt organization. Contributions cannot guarantee seating for every Advertising Executive/ are deductible according to the provi - panel discussion. Seating is on a Be sure to add to your Festival sion of current tax laws. first-come, first-served basis, but is experience with one of Maureen Custom Publishing: generally available. Detweiler’s famous mint juleps! Peggy Bruce

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BPresidoent ard of Directors Janet Daley Duval Staff Executive Director Vice President for Development Paul J. Willis Amelia W. Koch Associate Director Co-chair for Development Kevin Lovelace Mary Myrick Langlois Marketing Director Vice President for Literary Amy Wong Programming Susan Larson Project Consultants Arin Black Vice President for Theater Karissa Kary Programming Laura Lane Miller David Hoover Linda Anne Nix

Members At Large Program Assistant Peggy Scott Laborde Jessica Ramakrishnan Ted Laborde Publicist Secretary Ellen Johnson Clare Beth Pierson Technical Director Treasurer Bruce Campbell Terry Verigan Web Master Board of Directors Cherry Cappel Patricia Brady, Ph.D. Maureen Detweiler, Ex Officio Festival Photographers William M. Detweiler, J.D., Ex Officio Ride Hamilton 1014 Dumaine (Tennessee Williams’ residence in 1970s); 1964; by Dan S. Leyrer, photographer; Sharon Donovan Earl Perry Vieux Carré Survey, courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection Amy Kirk Duvoisin Mark Fernandez, Ph.D. Original Festival Logo Abram Himelstein Arthur Nead Katherine A. Hoffman Susan K. Hoskins Cover Design/New Logo John Kemp, Ph.D. Michael Kooiman Welcome to the 2012 Festival! Errol Laborde, Ph.D. We’re thrilled to welcome our longtime supporters and new friends to Henry Lacey, Ph.D. Advisory Board our 26th year. After our 25th anniversary birthday bash last year, we’re John Lawrence, Ph.D. Dorothy Allison Pamela Ewen Lott Allain Andry looking to the future—and to many new milestones ahead. Bev Marshall Alec Baldwin This year, as always, we’re keeping an eye out for promising literary Patricia Mason Fredrick Barton stars through our writing contests, which seek out undiscovered poets, Michael Sartisky, Ph.D. Joy Bollinger Jayetta Slawson, Ph.D. Rick Bragg playwrights, and short fiction scribes. The 2012 contests attracted a Bonnie Warren Ted Brennan record number of entries, and we’re excited to recognize fresh talent Peggy Wilson Sheila Davlin Jim Davis and help them rise to the top. We’re proud of our past contest win - Scholars Conference Chair Randall Feldman ners, who have gone on to secure deals, mount major performances, Robert Bray, Ph.D. Randy Fertel and win other awards—including in one case, a Pulitzer Prize. W. Kenneth Holditch, Ph.D. Anne Jackson We’re also supporting homegrown voices through WriteNow . Our Thomas Keith high school educational outreach program inspires young New Sandie McNamara Randy Moffett Orleanians to pursue their own scholarly efforts and, perhaps in time, Steve Perry return to the Festival as authors with their own published works. Rex Reed Marian Seldes In the pages of our program, you will see a mix of authors, actors, Eli Wallach and musicians at all stages of their careers, from breakout novelists and Bob Weilbaecher directors to legendary biographers and actors. We extend special Sharon Weilbaecher thanks to all our Friends, including new literary partners The People Say Project and LSU Press, who make the Festival a rousing success time and again. EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAM We wish you an enlightening Festival! Supported by a grant from the Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Friday, March 23, 2012, Southern Rep Theatre, 527 Elysian Fields Avenue Paul J. Willis Executive Director The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans promote, and encourage the next Literary Festival provides outreach to generation of young writers in New New Orleans-area high school students Orleans. Students from NOCCA, Lusher THE NEW ORLEANS WRITING MARATHON of writing and literature through our Charter School, the Neighborhood Story The Festival is the perfect weekend to to write around the French Quarter. educational initiative, WriteNow . Our Project, and others will interact with jumpstart your writing endeavors. Writers will write in small groups—or program this year includes a series of notable authors and publishing industry This year, for the first time, we are individually—at various inspiring New writing workshops and interactive dis - professionals to learn more about the delighted to present The New Orleans Orleans locations, then return at a des - cussions for local high school students business and craft of writing. Students Writing Marathon, facilitated by ignated time for a voluntary reading and who have a vested interest in writing. also receive panel passes to attend Richard Louth, the author of The celebration. Sign up ahead of time. Our goal is to help identify, educate, weekend Festival events. Writing Marathon: In Good Company Email: [email protected] or check out the Revealed , who began these writing Writing Marathon Central website at marathons in the early ’90s. www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/nwpr/315 Please note that during the Festival, many activities may be recorded Participants will gather in the morning to see if this is for you. Writers partici - for archival and/or commercial purposes. By attending Festival events, for an overview of the writing pating meet in the Queen Anne you hereby grant to The Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival marathon process, receive a map and Ballroom at the Hotel Monteleone and others permission to photograph and record you visually and orally guidelines, write together as a large on Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, for various TV and/or film productions. You grant universal rights for any group, then set out in smaller groups March 25 at 9:00 a.m. reproduction of your image, likeness, or voice, throughout the Festival weekend. 5 8

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4 1 1 The Historic New Orleans Collection 5 533 Royal Street 3 2 Southern Rep Theatre 11 2 527 Elysian Fields Avenue 3 Muriel’s Jackson Square Restaurant 6 801 Chartres Street 9 7 4 The Pelican Club Restaurant 312 Exchange Place in the French Quarter

5 Hotel Monteleone 214 Royal Street

6 Palm Court Jazz Café 10 1204 Decatur Street

7 Old U.S. Mint 400 Esplanade Avenue 9 Windsor Court Hotel 11 Williams Research Center 8 Café Istanbul at the 300 Gravier Street 410 Chartres Street New Orleans Healing Center 10 Besh Steak, Harrah’s Casino 2372 St. Claude Avenue 8 Canal Street

PUBLISHING STUDIES Together at last! Southeastern Louisiana University The final wish of Tennessee Williams was to be buried at sea where the poet Hart Crane, his idol, jumped to his death. Graduate and undergraduate courses are now offered in a new interdisciplinary program by the Departments of Instead, he was interred in the family plot in St Louis. English, Communication, Computer Science, and Visual Arts. Comprehensive course offerings in: At last, that wrong has been righted.

Writing U Editing U Visual Culture Print Publishing U Online Publishing Taking Tennessee to Hart A novel by Joe Stockdale Students gain practical experience with professional creative, and scholarly print and digital publications: “Stockdale tells a rollicking good yarn… Journals Digital Projects A fun read for anyone—a must-read for Journal of College Writing Book of Margery Kempe Louisiana Literature Civil Rights on the fans of Tennessee Williams.” Nineteenth Century Northshore Studies Early Ruskin Manuscripts Read all the rave reviews and order your copy online through Books Student Publications Louisiana Literature Press Gambit Hyphenates Books, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble Gambit Online The Pick Hyphenates Books SELU.edu/English www.hyphenatesbooks.com 985-549-2100

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26TH AT N NUAL 9:00 9:00 9:30 Catherine Frank Tennessee William s/ 10:00 Children’s Books 101 New Orleans Literary Festival 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:30 Constance Adler & Randy Fertel 12:00 Making the Memoir’s First Mark 12:30 1:00 1:30 The City of New Orleans and the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy create opportunities 1:30 Radclyffe & Julie Smith that allow true economic activity and growth for cultural economy stakeholders and the 2:00 Integrating E-Books with public. The Office of Cultural Economy leverages the innovative and entrepreneurial nature 2:30 Print Publishing of the cultural economy to achieve significant results. The Louisiana Tourism Recovery 3:00 Program works through the Office of the Lieutenant Governor and the Department of 3:00 Culture, Recreation and Tourism to ensure a strategic, rapid, outcome-based effort that will 3:30 Michele Karlsberg positively impact the tourism industry in Louisiana in response to the 2010 oil spill. 4:00 Make Social Networking Work 4:30 COLOR KEY/PRICES 5:00 Hotel Monteleone INCLUDED IN WEEKEND PANEL PASS ($75) Wednesday, March 21 5:30 Queen Anne Ballroom INDIVIDUAL MASTER CLASS ($25) OR 6:00 6:30 (Special Event) 6:30 The Glass Mendacity INCLUDED IN FULL SERIES PASS WHICH ALSO The Old U.S. Mint INCLUDES WEEKEND PANEL PASS ($175) 7:00 The Festival’s Opening Night 6:30 Theater Celebration THEATER (INDIVIDUAL TICKETS $25) 6:30 p.m. 7:30 SPECIAL EVENTS (PRICES VARY) (Special Event; limited seating) 8:00 Café Istanbul Song for My Fathers 8:00 Literary Late Night/Poetry Slam WALKING TOURS ($25 ) 8:30 2372 St. Claude Avenue

Friday, March 23

Hotel Monteleone Windsor Court The Historic New Williams Research Southern Rep Hotel Monteleone Orleans Collection Queen Anne Hotel Center (M ASTER CLASSES ) Theatre 9:00 9:00 9:00 – 5:00 9:30 Arielle Eckstut & 10:00 (reading) Ticket Sales— 10:00 David Henry Sterry 9:45 – 4:15 A Reading from the Poetry 10:00 – 3:45 Orleans Room Surviving and Thriving in Tennessee Williams 10:30 and Fiction Contests WriteNow: Educational Concessions & the Publishing Market Scholars Conference 11:00 with Judges Amy Hempel Outreach Program Souvenirs — 11:30 and Julie Kane 11:00 Parlor Room Ace Atkins Book Fair — 11:30 (panel) 12:00 Finding Your Orleans Room Speak, Memory: 12:30 Character’s Voice Writing the Memoir 1:00 Literary Walking 1:00 (panel) 1:30 Tours Singular Women, 1:30 Meet in Lobby 2:00 Singular Worlds Nigel Hamilton 10:00 a.m. ($25) 2:30 2:30 (panel) On Biography 3:00 Got That Swing?: Literary Walking 3:00 Writing About Music Tours 3:30 Amy Hempel Meet in Lobby 4:00 Leaning Into Language 2:00 p.m. ($25) 4:00 (panel) 4:30 New Orleans Free 5:00 People of Color 5:30 5:30 (Special Event) 6:00 A Chat with Food Expert 6:30 John Mariani—The Virtual Gourmet 7:00 7:30 Café Instanbul 8:00 8:00 7:30 (theater) Literary Late Night: 8:30 A Streetcar Named Desire Lafcadio Hearn 7 Saturday, March 24

Hotel Monteleone Williams Muriel’s Jackson Hotel Monteleone Hotel Monteleone Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Research Center Square Restaurant Royal Ballroom La Nouvelle 9:00 8:00 (special event) 9:00 – 5:00 9:30 Breakfast Book Club Tennessee Williams’ Ticket Sales— 10:00 10:00 (panel) 10:00 (panel) Orleans Room Tales of Desire 10:30 The Right to Write: Tennessee Williams, Concessions & Blacklisting and Its Gerontologist? 10:00 (panel) Souvenirs — 11:00 Repercussions Changing by the Minute: Parlor Room 11:30 How to Succeed in a 11:30 (panel) 11:30 ( panel ) Book Fair — Publishing World in Flux 12:00 Intimate and Confidential: An American Abroad: Orleans Room 12:30 Detailing a Moment International Williams 11:30 (panel) 1:00 in History Bet You Can’t Read Just Literary Walking One: Mysteries for Fun 1:30 1:00 (panel) 1:00 (panel) Tours It’s Getting Ugly Out Williams’ Sexual Politics 1:00 Meet in Lobby 2:00 There: Politics in an (manuscript pitches) 10:00 a.m. ($25) 2:30 Election Year Pitchapalooza 3:00 Literary Walking 2:30 2:30 (panel/reading) 2:30 (panel ) Tours 3:30 (discussion/film clips) Spark and Fire: Nick Spitzer: Music in the Meet in Lobby 4:00 Streetcar …Is That You?: Poetry Readings Cultural Conversation 2:00 p.m. ($25) 4:30 The On-screen Imitators 4:00 (Conversation with) of Williams’ Masterwork 5:00 Piper Laurie 4:00 (panel) 5:30 Listen Up: The Voices 6:00 (theater) 6:00 of NPR Besh Steak, Broomstick Harrah’s Casino 6:30 1:00 (special event) 7:00 Home Is Where the Southern Rep 8:00 (theater) 7:30 Heart Is: Cooking for Theatre Hiding in Plain Sight: 8:00 the Family with 7:30 (theater) Tennessee Williams’ 8:30 Chef John Besh A Streetcar Named Desire Treasures

Sunday, March 25

Hotel Monteleone Palm Court Hotel Monteleone Southern Rep Hotel Monteleone Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Jazz Café Royal Ballroom Theatre La Nouvelle 9:00 9:00 – 5:00 9:30 Ticket Sales— 10:00 10:00 (panel) 10:00 (panel) 10:00 (theater) Orleans Room 10:30 The Art of the Ending A Unique Slant of Light: One-Act Reading Concessions & The Bicentennial History 2012 contest winner Souvenirs — 11:00 11:30 (music) of Art in Louisiana Parlor Room Musicians Battle for the 11:00 (theater) 11:30 11:30 (panel) Book Fair — Future of New Orleans 11:30 (panel) An Autobiography 12:00 The Theater Now: A Orleans Room in New Atlantis Reading and Writing About My Brother Conversation with Four 12:30 and HBO’s Treme About the Law (full production of 2011 Contemporary Playwrights one-act contest winner) 1:00 1:00 (music) 1:00 (panel) Literary Walking 1:00 (panel) 1:30 Between the Lionels: Talking Tennessee: Tours Cityscapes: Writing the Meet in Lobby Living Treasures of A Conversation with 2:00 American City in Fact 10:00 a.m. ($25) New Orleans Music Piper Laurie and and Fiction 2:30 Amanda Plummer 3:00 2:30 (panel) 2:30 (music) 2:30 (theater) Literary Walking 2:30 3:00 (theater) Laugh and the World Swinging the Hippest Readings from Tours 3:30 Writing Marathon A Streetcar Named Desire Reads With You — of the Standards Steel Magnolias Meet in Lobby 4:00 Favorite Comic Novels Wrap-up 2:00 p.m. ($25) 4:30 Jackson Square The Pelican Club Williams Research 5:00 Restaurant Center 4:15 5:30 Stanley and Stella 11:30 (special event) 11:30 (film screening) 6:00 Shouting Contest New Orleans Food Walker Percy: 6:30 Memories A Documentary Film 7:00 1:00 7:30 (feature film screening) 8:00 The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond 8:30

8 MARCH 21, 2012 Wednesday Sancton’s narrations, audio-visual projections, dramatizations and musical interludes provided by the onstage band. The Song For My Fathers stage show debuted at Tulane’s Dixon Hall in 2010 and played to packed hous - es at the Chat Noir in 2011. Now it comes to the new state-of-the-art per - formance hall at the Old U.S. Mint, which is currently hosting a year-long exhibit celebrating the 50 th anniversary of Preservation Hall’s founding. Come view the exhibit as part of an intimate cocktail reception before experiencing Sancton’s guided musical tour in this unique multimedia stage production that blurs the lines between personal journey and his - toric account. It’s a history lesson that will have you dancing in the aisles. The Old U. S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Avenue, $100, limited seating. Support provided by Regions Bank, Hendrick’s Gin, and The Louisiana Museum Foundation.

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6:30 P.M. SONG FOR MY FATHERS (SPECIAL EVENT) A unique multimedia stage production based on Tom Sancton’s critically acclaimed New Orleans memoir featuring Tom Sancton and the Preservation Hall All-Stars. Directed by Ron Rona and produced by Ben Jaffe. Thank you to our Hailed as a “newly minted classic” by The Times-Picayune, this heart - warming story about a boy growing up in the 60s and learning to play jazz official liquor sponsor from the veteran musicians at Preservation Hall comes to life in the form of of the 2012 Festival.

MARCH 22, 2012

9 A.M. – 5 P.M. genre? Do people still actually buy pTictuhre bouoks rsAddlera wilyl off er strategies and insights into FESTIVAL TICKET SALES, printed on paper? The world of children’s books crafting that first book of reflective non-fiction. ORLEANS ROOM AT THE is a constantly shifting landscape—and one of the They’ll read from their own books and share HOTEL MONTELEONE last profitable categories in the “traditional” book their experiences in making work about their business. We’ll talk about the ins and outs and lives that is funny, sad, and inexorably linked to dos and don’ts here. the city in which they live. MASTER CLASSES The Historic New Orleans The Historic New Orleans Collection, $25 or included Collection, $25 or included The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary in Master Class series in Master Class series Festival opens with a series of Master Classes by registration. registration. leading authors, agents, and publishing industry professionals. Each session is 1 hour and 15 11 A.M. 1:30 P.M. minutes with a lively give-and-take between audi - CONSTANCE ADLER RADCLYFFE & JULIE ence and facilitators. Authors will sign books. & RANDY FERTEL: SMITH: TIPS ON Classes may be taken individually for $25 or as a FIRST IMPRES - HOW TO INTEGRATE complete series for $175. The full series fee also SIONS— MAKING E-BOOKS WITH includes a Festival Panel Pass. Presented in coop - THE MEMOIR’S PRINT PUBLISHING— eration with The Historic New Orleans FIRST MARK FORMATS, TIMING, Collection. Central to writing is the idea AND MARKETPLACES We would that everyone has a story, but 722 Toulouse (Tennessee Williams’ Most books are not necessarily like to thank the question for good writers New Orleans residence in 1939) sacred texts and even when they Balcony of the Iron Grapes, Number the Patrick F. then becomes, “When is Two ; 1946; by Clarence John are, they’re not changed by digi - Taylor Foundation for mine ripe to tell?” Miley Laughlin, photographer; The Clarence tal delivery. All the same, a hun - their sponsorship of the Cyrus may have only waited John Laughlin Archive at The Historic dred out of a hundred people New Orleans Collection Master Class series and for until the age of 15, but choos - who don’t use an e-reader say, providing assistance for ing the right moment to share one’s life is often “But I love the feel of a book in my hands!” As if student scholarships. a delicate process. Doing so in a way that once they touch a Kindle, they can never hold a makes the writing sing is even more so. In this book again. Learn why authors and publishers 9 A.M. Master Class, participants will learn from New alike should embrace the digital revolution. And CATHERINE FRANK: Orleans scribes as they discuss the making of a how they can, without sacrificing quality, integri - CHILDREN’S BOOKS 101 first memoir. From knowing which small ty, or the feel of a book in their hands. What’s the difference between middle grade and moments matter and how to craft the arc for The Historic New Orleans Collection, $25 or young adult novels? Are there any taboos in the YA the big stuff, Randy Fertel and Constance included in Master Class series registration.

9 continued Thursday 3 P.M. Originally produced by the Illegitimate Players, and written by Maureen MICHELE KARLSBERG: MAKE SOCIAL Morley, Tom Willmorth, Doug Armstrong, and Keith Cooper. NETWORKING WORK Publicist Michele Karlsberg offers practical advice, tips, and ideas about 7:30 P.M. using Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, YouTube, and other digital media to con - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (THEATER) nect with writers and readers to promote your work, build community, Directed by Jason Kirkpatrick and get your work noticed in a world gone social media mad. Bring your A play that truly comes from the heart of our city—what better way to comments, questions, and concerns because there will be a Q&A follow - celebrate Southern Rep’s 25 th anniversary than with this startlingly ing the talk to help you become more social. fresh production of one of the best plays in the pantheon of American The Historic New Orleans Collection, $25 or included in Master theater? Originally scheduled for Southern Rep’s cancelled 2006 Post- Class series registration. Katrina season, Streetcar makes a triumphant return to New Orleans. Get tickets at www.SouthernRep.com or (504) 522-6545. 6:30 P.M. SPECIAL EVENT: Southern Repertory Theatre, Michalopoulos Studios, 527 Elysian THE GLASS MENDACITY Fields Avenue. The Festival’s Opening Night Theater Celebration 8 P.M. Join literature’s most dysfunctional family, the LITERARY LATE NIGHT: POETRY SLAM DuBois clan, for some “Tennessee with a PLUS MUSIC Twist.” Imagine Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , A Come hear New Orleans’ finest performance poets throw down their Streetcar Named Desire , and The Glass Menagerie , thrown into a blender best verse in the fierce lyrical battle that is our annual Poetry Slam. to create a hilarious cocktail of Southern silliness. Featuring an all-star Resident spoken word supremo Chuck Perkins will host, and you New Orleans cast with John “Spud” McConnell, Becky Allen, Maureen could be amongst the audience members called upon to judge the Brennan, Kris Lamorte, Lara Grice, Jerry Lee Leighton, and Ann poetic proceedings and anoint the 2012 Slam winner. No experience Mahoney. Cocktails, dessert, and a little southern decadence will sweeten necessary, but a good ear and a willingness to be thrilled and enter - the night at this don’t-miss event. tained is essential. If you’ve got some rhymes to share and want to Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, $50. compete, come sign up from 7-7:30 PM. The evening will also fea - Sponsored in part by the Union Pacific Foundation. Cocktails provided ture music performances by the Mario Abney Trio. by Hendrick’s Gin. Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude

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9:45-10:00 Opening remarks by Dr. Robert Bray, founding director, TWSC “Tennessee Williams and Dance.” Dr. Michael Hooper , Princess Helena College, UK 10:00-11:00 PRESENTATION OF ABSTRACTS WITH AUDIENCE DISCUSSION “From Sweden to Paris and London: Tennessee Williams and Moderator: Dr. Jessica Dorman, The Historic New Orleans Collection His Scandinavian Impresario.” Dr. Dirk Gindt , Stockholm University 1:30-2:45 TEACHING TENNESSEE: WILLIAMS IN THE CLASSROOM “Tennessee Williams and the Social Life of Achievement.” Panelists: Dr. Will Brantley. Middle Tennessee State University; Dr. Nick Long and Mr. Jack Gamble , University of Cambridge Dr. Virginia Craighill , The University of the South; “(A)septic Aesthetics in the ‘Nameless Country’: Williams and Dr. Annette Saddik , City University of New York; and the Resort.” Dr. Ryan Rashotte , University of Guelph Dr. David Savran , City University of New York Moderator: Dr. Robert Bray , Middle Tennessee State Univ. Moderator: Dr. Robert Bray , Middle Tennessee State University 3:00-4:15 TENNESSEE NORTH OF THE BORDER: WILLIAMS FROM A 11:15-12:15 PRESENTATION OF ABSTRACTS WITH AUDIENCE DISCUSSION CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE “‘Has Brick Been Drinking?’”: The Queer Alcoholic In Cat on a Hot Panelists: Dr. Brian Parker , University of Toronto; Dr. Denys Tin Roof .” Thom Bryce , doctoral candidate, York University Landry , University of Montreal ; Dr. Dirk Gindt , Stockholm University ; Dr. Ryan Rashotte , University of Guelph ; and “Tennessee Williams’s Graphomania.” Dr. Brian Parker , Thom Bryce, York University University of Toronto Moderator: Dr. Stuart Noel , Georgia Perimeter College

The Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference gratefully acknowledges the support of The Historic New Orleans Collection and Middle Tennessee State University.

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9F Ar.Mi.d – 5a P.yM. 1:30 P.M. FESTIVAL TICKET SALES, ORLEANS ROOM AT NIGEL HAMILTON: ON BIOGRAPHY THE HOTEL MONTELEONE In a world where biography is still not taught, how do we learn how it can best be done—its pitfalls, revelations, ethical problems, challenges? BOOK FAIR, ORLEANS ROOM AT THE An award-winning biographer takes you through the hoops, with exam - HOTEL MONTELEONE ples from the biographies of Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and Local independent bookseller Garden District Book Shop will offer William Faulkner, as well as his own best-selling JFK: Reckless Youth , books for sale by Festival authors, along with special books about which drove the Kennedys crazy… Louisiana and all things Tennessee. The Historic New Orleans Collection, $25 or included in Master Class series registration. CONCESSIONS AND SOUVENIRS, PARLOR ROOM AT HOTEL MONTELEONE 3 P.M. Book bags, note cards, T-shirts, and more—exclusive to the Festival. LEANING INTO LANGUAGE: A SHORT STORY MASTER CLASS WITH AMY HEMPEL From her early days of study under the exacting Gordon Lish, writer TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Amy Hempel has dazzled readers with a voice both luminous and SCHOLARS CONFERENCE spare. Her piece “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” has become the most anthologized story in the last quarter century, and her work has been lauded by Chuck Palahniuk and others. Hempel 9:45 A.M. TO 4:15 P.M. said, “I just try to remember something Grace Paley said about revi - Literary experts share their insights on the creative work of America’s sion—that you should go back and look at every word and ask your - greatest playwright. Complete schedule is on page 11. self if it’s true.” A master of the form, Hempel’s care extends to what Conference Director: Dr. Robert Bray. she refers to as the “acoustics of a sentence” and results in perfectly Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street, $20 for Scholars cut jewels of narrative. Hempel brings her insights on the story to the Conference Pass. Festival for a Master Class discussion on the short form. The Historic New Orleans Collection, $25 or included in Master MASTER CLASSES Class series registration.

9 A.M. AGENTS: ARIELLE ECKSTUT & DAVID HENRY LITERARY PANELS, STERRY CODE BLUE — SURVIVING AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES, THRIVING IN THE PUBLISHING MARKET AND SPECIAL EVENTS Of course it all starts with putting the first word on the page, but in today’s ever-evolving book market, getting the next great American novel Entrance to all literary panels, readings, and featured conversations with ready for reading, and then read, can seem as challenging as making fire literary luminaries is included in the Festival Panel Pass, $75. on Survivor . From out of the gate to the finish line of marketing, agent/author Arielle Eckstut and author/performer David Henry Sterry help hopeful authors navigate the writing wilderness through their com - TENNESSEE pany, The Book Doctors. Now, Festival guests can learn from their exper - WILLIAMS LITERARY tise. Whether it’s fixing tricky development issues or understanding the WALKING TOUR process of agents and contracts, The Book Doctors offer diagnosis and a New Orleans—and especially the cure. An essential class for writers at all stages of the process. French Quarter—played a very The Historic New Orleans Collection, $25 or included in Master vital part in shaping Tennessee Class series registration. Williams. When he came here for the first time, he was Tom 11 A.M. Williams. When he left here a cou - ACE ATKINS: FINDING ple months later, he was going as YOUR CHARACTER’S Tennessee, having undergone a VOICE tremendous change in his personal A character’s voice is often what life and his creativity. A man perpetually on the move, Tennessee lures the reader into a story and considered this city his “spiritual home” and had at least eight what stays with the reader long after Ace Atkins residences in its famous neighborhoods. Revisit the homes and the last page. Ace Atkins talks about hangouts where he lived and worked and returned to throughout how to create that memorable voice and how to listen for its truths. He’s cre - his adult life, beloved spots that helped to make Tennessee ated such memorable series characters as Nick Travers and, most recently, America’s greatest playwright. Quinn Colson of The Ranger . Ace takes on a new writing challenge as he 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. Friday through Sunday. Each tour will begins to take over Robert Parker’s Spenser franchise, which entails recreat - start with an introduction by Dr. Kenneth Holditch. Tour meets ing one of the most beloved voices in crime fiction. Hear a master’s secrets. in the Hotel Monteleone lobby, Heritage Tours, $25 The Historic New Orleans Collection, $25 or included in Master Class series registration.

12 10 A.M. erations in Northern Georgia. No matter the subject, these four voices A READING FROM THE POETRY AND will captivate as they discuss how they use the imaginary lives of others FICTION CONTESTS WITH JUDGES to connect and create a written legacy. AMY HEMPEL AND JULIE KANE Panelists: Ellen Baker, Lucy Ferriss, Laura Ellen Scott, and Why not kick-off the weekend with something new? As part of our Jessica Maria Tuccelli. organization’s mission to encourage and support new talent, the Moderator: Bev Marshall. Festival turns an eye to the next voices in American letters with a Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. reading from our 2012 Fiction and Poetry Contest winners. Hundreds of entries poured into our offices from around the world 2:30 P.M. from writers who have yet to publish a book in their genre. In this GOT THAT SWING? panel, the victors take to the stage to share their work alongside our “True knowledge of sound carries with it great power. It allows one to illustrious judges, Louisiana Poet Laureate Julie Kane and respected travel without moving.” — Joska Soos short story author Amy Hempel, who will introduce and chat with this year’s cream of the crop. Past winners are already making their While some may think that writing about music is like dancing about mark. Don’t miss your chance for a first look at the next wave. architecture, in truth, music writing can transport a reader across the Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. page and into sound itself. Music writers help us understand the cul - tural ramifications beyond the beat and act as culture bearers for their 11:30 A.M. generation. They take listening to another level. In this panel, music SPEAK, MEMORY: WRITING THE MEMOIR critic and author, Alex V. Cook joins Times-Picayune music critic, Reading the memoir feeds our hunger to know more about the writer— Keith Spera; former Rolling Stone editor, John Swenson; and music and more about ourselves as well. These four writers have all engaged writer for Gambit Weekly and others, Alison Fensterstock, as they with powerful times, discuss their new books about all things music. From bounce to rock places, and people in to jazz and back again, get down with what’s it’s like on the music their lives. Claudia beat from some of the industry’s most important voices. Sternbach tells her life Panelists: Alex V. Cook, Alison Fensterstock, Keith Spera, and story through remem - John Swenson. bered kisses; Sharifa Moderator: Tom Sancton. Rhodes-Pitts takes Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. readers to her Harlem as well as the Harlem of 4 P.M. myth; Zachary Lazar NEW ORLEANS FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR struggles to understand One of the most important groups in his father’s murder by the history of New Orleans and south Mafia hit men; and Louisiana is the Free People of Color, Jesmyn Ward brings or the gens de couleur libre . This fasci - her home town in nating class of people has given us writ - Mississippi, also the ers, artists and musicians, and has setting of her National inspired fiction, drama, and scholar - Book Award-winning ship. Join playwright John Guare, novel, Salvage the whose most recent play is A Free Man Bones , to life. of Color ; Barbara Hambly, who writes Panelists: Zachary Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts remembers Harlem the Benjamin January series of myster - Lazar, Sharifa ies featuring a free man of color; and Rhodes-Pitts, Claudia Sternbach, and Jesmyn Ward. scholars Gregory Osborn, a New Moderator: Ted O’Brien. Orleans Public Library archivist; and Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Daniel Sharfstein, author of The Sponsored by Tulane University. Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America . Moderator Pat Brady has also written extensively on this topic. 1 P.M. Panelists: John Guare, Barbara Hambly, Gregory Osborn, and Daniel SINGULAR WOMEN, SINGULAR WORLDS Sharfstein. The best writing can be a kind of magic, where the reader is subsumed Moderator: Pat Brady. in a singular world, where the lives of the characters can become as real Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. as any ever known. In this panel, meet four women whose work builds exquisite worlds that allow for the exploration of issues surrounding 5:30 P.M. feminism, otherness, and power. In her ninth book, Lucy Ferriss goes RESTAURANT SCOOP FROM THE VIRTUAL behind a happy marriage to unravel past secrets and present remorse, GOURMET (SPECIAL EVENT) as well as the ever-present responsibilities of parenthood. Ellen Baker Join food expert John Mariani for wine, wit, and hors d’oeuvres. Mariani, explores the challenges of family-making and domesticity in mid-centu - a food columnist for Esquire, will give the scoop on the latest national ry America. Laura Ellen Scott examines what would happen if everyone restaurant trends. got one wish that came true. 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13 THE GhLASeS MEaNDAtCIe TY r Offerings The Festival’s Opening Night Theater Special Event Join Literature’s most dysfunctional family, the DuBois clan, for some “Tennessee with a Twist.” Imagine Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , A Streetcar Named Desire , and The Glass Menagerie , thrown into a blender to create a hilarious cocktail of Southern silliness. Featuring an all-star New Orleans cast with John “Spud” McConnell, Becky Allen, Maureen Brennan, Kris Lamorte, Lara Grice, Jerry Lee Leighton, and Ann Mahoney. Cocktails, dessert, and a little southern decadence will sweeten the night at this don’t-miss event. Originally produced by the Illegitimate Players, and was written by: Maureen Morley, Tom Willmorth, Doug Armstrong, and Keith Cooper. Thursday, March 22, 6:30 P.M. Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, $50 playwright John Guare will be amongst those reading gems culled from full- TALKING TENNESSEE: A CONVERSATION WITH length plays, one-acts, letters, and essays. See page 17 for full description. PIPER LAURIE AND AMANDA PLUMMER Saturday, March 24, 8:00 P.M. Actresses who play Tennessee’s Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom, $35 beautifully written roles for women share a special bond; with each per - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE formance they are joining a theatrical Directed by Jason Kirkpatrick dynasty—Tennessee’s sorority of fab - A play that truly comes from the heart of our city—what better way to cel - ulous, flawed, unforgettable female ebrate Southern Rep’s 25 th anniversary than with this startlingly fresh characters. In 1965, Piper Laurie production of one of the best plays in the pantheon of American theater? starred in a Broadway revival of Originally scheduled for Southern Rep’s cancelled 2006 Post-Katrina Actress Amanda Plummer Tennessee Williams’ The Glass season, Streetcar makes a triumphant return to New Orleans. Menagerie , Laura Wingfield to Get tickets at www.SouthernRep.com or (504) 522-6545. Maureen Stapleton’s Amanda Wingfield. In 1983, Amanda Plummer por - Southern Repertory Theatre, Michalopoulos Studios, 527 Elysian trayed Laura opposite Jessica Tandy’s Amanda in another Broadway revival. Fields Avenue. These two brilliant actresses reminisce about the challenges of the role and their singular productions of one of the playwright’s most memorable works. Thursday, March 22, 7:30 P.M. Foster Hirsch facilitates this discussion about Williams and his women. Friday, March 23, 7:30 P.M. Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin. Saturday, March 24, 7:30 P.M. Sunday, March 25, 1:00 P.M. Sunday, March 25, 3:00 P.M. Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom, Free with Festival Panel Pass or $10 at the door. STAGED READING OF THE 2012 FESTIVAL ONE-ACT BROOMSTICK PLAY CONTEST WINNER This staged reading is directed by George Judy, Artistic Director The University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre, and of Swine Palace, and features Cristine McMurdo-Wallis. Communication Arts presents a reading of the winning entry in the 2012 Written by John Biguenet Festival’s national One-Act Play Contest. The Creative Writing MFA In Broomstick , a witch confesses all: her first love affair, how she discov - Program at the University of New Orleans administers and coordinates ered her powers, how she has used them. But more than that, it is a funny competition judging. The winning playwright was chosen from a record and frightening return to our childhoods, where we first wrestled with number of entries. evil and justice. For the witch is a completely unsentimental moralist who Sunday, March 25 at 10:00 A.M. knows everything about the human heart—having been both its victim Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom. Free with Festival Pass or and avenger all her long life—and who metes out inexorable justice, $5 at the door. immune to our pleas for mercy, cackling at our excuses. In Broomstick , whiners wind up in casseroles . AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABOUT MY BROTHER BY Saturday, March 24, 6:00 P.M. JUSTIN KURITZKES Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom, $25 Andrew’s brother is about to be executed for killing 25 people. On the eve of his brother’s execution, Andrew looks back on his life, his broth - HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: er’s, and the places where they intersect. Also, Andrew lies a lot. The TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ TREASURES University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre, and (SPECIAL EVENT) Communication Arts presents the premiere production of the winning Some of Tennessee’s most beautiful writing is “hidden” in some of his less - play in the Festival’s 2011 One-Act Play Contest. er-known works as well as within his most famous plays. Now, in an evening Sunday, March 25 at 11:00 A.M. that’s not-to-be-missed, luminaries of the page and stage gather to share Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom. Free with Festival Pass or some of the playwright’s unsung treasures. Actress Piper Laurie and $5 at the door.

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8 P.M. 7:30 P.M. LITERARY LATE NIGHT: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE LAFCADIO HEARN (THEATER) Think you know New Orleans? Directed by Jason Kirkpatrick Explore the city of yore through a A play that truly comes from the heart of our variety show that brings to life the city—what better way to celebrate Southern works of Lafcadio Hearn, who in Rep’s 25 th anniversary than with this startlingly the late 1800s gave New Orleans fresh production of one of the best plays in the its provocative reputation for pantheon of American theater? Originally Voodoo mystery, exotic cuisine, and a fecund underbelly. In this scheduled for Southern Rep’s cancelled 2006 choreographed evening of readings, music, and dance, the Post-Katrina season, Streetcar makes a People Say Project presents artists from the burgeoning triumphant return to New Orleans. Bywater/Marigny theater and performance scene in the heart of Get tickets at www.SouthernRep.com or the St. Claude arts district. Experience the city’s resilient liter - (504) 522-6545. ary culture while looking back at a figure who left an indelible Southern Repertory Theatre at Michalopoulos mark on the world’s image of New Orleans. Studios, 527 Elysian Fields Avenue. Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Avenue, $15.

MARCH 24, 2012

8 A.M. 10 A.MS. aturday BREAKFAST BOOK CLUB (SPECIAL EVENT) THE RIGHT TO WRITE: BLACKLISTING AND Tennessee Williams’ Tales of Desire ITS REPERCUSSIONS For all the brilliance of his playwriting, Tennessee Williams often felt The blacklist ruined dozens of careers during its heyday from the late hampered within his drama, especially at the beginning and middle of 1940s until the early 1960s. Panelists will put blacklisting in a his - his career, when dealing openly with sexuality. He turned to short fic - toric context, discuss the impact on its victims, and identify some of tion to write frankly about desire and gratification, and this newly its lingering effects. issued collection from New Directions Press features five of his classic Panelists: Michael Bernstein, Lou Dubose, and Victor Navasky. stories dealing with desire: “The Mysteries of the Joy Rio,” “One Moderator: John Pope. Arm,” “Desire and the Black Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Masseur,” “Hard Candy,” and “I cannot write any sort of 10 A.M. “The Killer Chicken and the story,” said Tennessee Williams TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, GERONTOLOGIST? Closet Queen.” to Gore Vidal, “unless there is Participants are invited to Almost all of his life Williams expressed anxiety over growing old and at least one character in it for secure and read Tales of Desire the ravaging effects of time, and towards the end of his life he became whom I have physical desire.” on their own in anticipation of virtually obsessed with aging. Come join us for a discussion to dis - a group discussion of the work cover how the author depicts the superannuated years in both the over a light breakfast of coffee and pastries. The newly refigured collec - comic and tragic veins. tion from New Directions Tales of Desire is readily available (ISBN 978- Panelists: Michael Hooper, David Kaplan, and Annette Saddik. 0-8112-1856-6). The session will run an hour and a half and will be led Moderator: John DiLeo. by Gary Richards, scholar of southern literature and longtime discussion Williams Research Center, Festival Panel Pass. leader in the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ RELIC library program. Seating is limited to 50 persons; pre-registration is required. 10 A.M. Muriel’s Jackson Square Restaurant, $25. CHANGING BY THE MINUTE: HOW TO SUCCEED IN A PUBLISHING WORLD IN FLUX 9 A.M. – 5 P.M. In a world where self-publishing is an ever more attractive option and FESTIVAL TICKET SALES, ORLEANS ROOM AT THE e-books are growing in popularity, what’s an author, agent, editor, HOTEL MONTELEONE publicist to do? Where’s a writer to start? Jessica Maria Tuccelli talks about how she sold her debut novel, Glow , with her agent, the highly BOOK FAIR, ORLEANS ROOM AT THE HOTEL respected Lisa Bankoff, who has had a front row seat for selling books MONTELEONE in a changing marketplace. Radclyffe of Bold Strokes Books talks Local independent bookseller Garden District Book Shop will offer about independent publishing in an age of e-books, and Michele books for sale by Festival authors, along with special books about Karlsberg, an independent publicist, lets you know how to get the Louisiana and all things Tennessee. word out about your book—and when to hire help. Panelists: Lisa Bankoff, Michele Karlsberg, Radclyffe, CONCESSIONS AND SOUVENIRS, PARLOR ROOM and Jessica Maria Tuccelli. AT HOTEL MONTELEONE Moderator: Jane Ciabattari. Book bags, note cards, T-shirts, and more—exclusive to the Festival. Muriel’s Jackson Square Restaurant, Festival Panel Pass. 15 continued Saturday 11:30 A.M. 1 P.M. INTIMATE AND CONFIDENTIAL: DETAILING A WILLIAMS’ SEXUAL POLITICS MOMENT IN HISTORY What do Blanche DuBois, Maggie the Cat, Chance Wayne, and other When dealing with history, sometimes it’s more interesting to think leading Williams characters all have in common? They each attempt the small. This can be especially true when dealing with the larger-than-life art of sexual seduction, even though their actions occasionally backfire. figures of American Presidents. In this panel, four writers discuss how Williams enthusiasts discuss the intersection of sex and politics and they used telling details to examine the histories writ large on our politi - chart how desire informs so many of the author’s works. cal landscape. Whether it be through the exploration of geography, via Panelists: Jodie Markell, Amanda Plummer, and David Savran. the mundane, or with the women who, as the saying goes, always stand Moderator: Robert Bray. behind a great leader, these authors tell the stories of our nation’s presi - Williams Research Center, Festival Panel Pass. dents through surprising avenues and supporting elements and tease out intimate visions of those that shaped the collective past. 1 P.M. Panelists: Patricia Brady, Richard Campanella, Lou Dubose, and PITCHAPALOOZA Nigel Hamilton. Just think your ideas need to Moderator: David Johnson. be heard? Come to Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Pitchapalooza and put forth Sponsored by the Azby Fund. your book project, American Idol style. You’ll have one 11:30 A.M. minute to persuade our AN AMERICAN ABROAD: INTERNATIONAL panel of judges—Arielle WILLIAMS Eckstut and David Henry While there’s little doubt of Tennessee’s popularity with American Sterry (the Book Doctors, audiences, the question arises: How is America’s greatest playwright also authors of The Essential received abroad? In this illuminating conversation, a playwright, a Guide to Getting Your Book scholar, and a director gather to discuss Williams’ impact overseas. Published ); Kathleen How does Williams’ work, so steeped in Southern iconography, trans - Calhoun Nettleton, assistant late to other cultures? What challenges arise when producing his plays to the publisher of Pelican for international audiences? Scholar Dirk Gindt discusses Swedish Publishing; Radclyffe, pub - The Book Doctors are in! and European premieres of Williams’ plays, from The Glass Menagerie lisher of Bold Strokes Books; to Night of the Iguana . Martin Sherman offers his perspective on pro - and Susan Larson (host of The Reading Life), that your book is the best. ductions of Williams plays in London and Tokyo, and David Kaplan You’ll have one minute (time strictly enforced) to present your idea, deals with the challenges of directing and producing Williams in other you’ll receive feedback from the panel, and the winner will receive repre - languages and other cultures, from Hong Kong to Russia. sentation by Arielle and David. It’s fast-paced, competitive, and a LOT Panelists: Dirk Gindt, David Kaplan, and Martin Sherman. of fun. We’ll hear as many pitches as time allows. Moderator: Thomas Keith. Judges: Agents Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry; Williams Research Center, Festival Panel Pass. Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, Susan Larson, and Radclyffe. Muriel’s Jackson Square Restaurant, Festival Panel Pass. 11:30 A.M. BET YOU CAN’T READ JUST ONE: MYSTERIES 1 P.M. FOR FUN HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: COOKING There are so many mystery novels, so little time. These four writers, all FOR THE FAMILY WITH CHEF JOHN BESH from very different genres, give us a privileged glimpse into their craft. Ace (SPECIAL EVENT) Atkins’ prime territory has been the South in his hard-boiled novels, After noticing that families seemed to be though now he is also taking on Robert Parker’s Spenser franchise. spending less and less time eating Barbara Hambly has created the evocative world of the Free People of healthy meals around the table, Chef Color in her Benjamin January series. Greg Herren’s novels are exuberant John Besh dug in and brought his laud - portraits of gay life in New Orleans. And C.S. Harris brings her historian’s ed skills back home for his newest cook - training to bear on exquisitely crafted mysteries set in Regency England. book, My Family Table . The James Panelists: Ace Atkins, Barbara Hambly, C.S. Harris, and Greg Herren. Beard Award-winner developed healthy, Moderator: Diana Pinckley. easy recipes that keep families in mind Muriel’s Jackson Square Restaurant, Festival Panel Pass. without sacrificing flavor. Besh shares the stories of his homecoming, alongside 1 P.M. tasty recipes, in this cooking demonstration and discussion. You’ll IT’S GETTING UGLY OUT THERE: POLITICS IN feel like one of the family during this delightful event. AN ELECTION YEAR Besh Steak, Harrah’s Casino, 8 Canal Street. $35. Is a civil civic discourse ever going to be possible in an election year? Sponsored by American Sector, Restaurant August, Besh Steak at Four writers weigh in on what’s at stake and how it’s being discussed Harrah’s Casino, Borgne, Domenica, Lüke, Soda Shop, and La Provence. during this crucial presidential election. Panelists: John Barry, Jarvis DeBerry, Robert Mann, 2:30 P.M. and Victor Navasky. NICK SPITZER: MUSIC IN THE CULTURAL Moderator: Jed Horne. CONVERSATION Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Tulane University professor Nick Spitzer is the creator and voice of

16 the public radio gem of a music program, American Routes. Now in 4 P.M. its 12 th year, American Routes reaches 400,000 listeners through LISTEN UP: THE VOICES OF NPR 195 outlets, largely because of Spitzer’s unique insights into the way They’re the voices in your ear, making you laugh, making you think, music plays an integral role in our communal life. Whether he’s talk - bringing you news and entertainment. Here’s your chance to see them ing about the bluesmen of Mississippi, the brass bands of New face-to-face: Nick Spitzer, host of the fabulous music show, American Orleans, a rollicking Tejano band or a worshipping gospel group, Routes; Amy Dickinson, a panelist for Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!; Gwen Spitzer brings his terrific knowledge to bear on the special ways Thompkins, known for her reporting from Kenya; Eve Abrams, author music both reflects and creates community identity and spirit. Sit of Preservation Hall and independent radio producer; and moderator back and listen to a man who’s truly a master of the music. Fred Kasten, host of WWNO’s Sound of Books. Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Panelists: Eve Abrams, Amy Dickinson, Nick Spitzer, and Gwen Thompkins. 2:30 P.M. Moderator: Fred Kasten. “STREETCAR”…IS THAT YOU?: THE ON-SCREEN Sponsored by Reily Foods Company. IMITATORS OF WILLIAMS’ MASTERWORK Williams Research Center, Festival Panel Pass. John DiLeo , author of Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (2010), returns to the Festival with a new film- clips program, a look at movies that borrowed (sometimes shameless - ly) from A Streetcar Named Desire, films both famous (Look Back in Anger) and obscure (Storm Warning). Among the refashioned stand- ins for Blanche, Stanley, and Stella, you’ll see Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Margaret Leighton. Plus a bonus of Williams-related surprises from Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Sleeper, and Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her. Williams Research Center, Festival Panel Pass.

2:30 P.M. SPARK AND FIRE: POETRY READINGS Award-winning Louisiana poets Ava Leavell Haymon (Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Prize), Benjamin Morris (Chancellor’s Medal for Poetry/University of Cambridge), and Alison Pelegrin (Akron Poetry Prize) join Louisiana Poet Laureate Julie Kane (Donald Justice Poetry Prize) in a reading and discussion about where the poem originates and how it gets made by frictions as 6 P.M. diverse as memory, social criticism, climate change, archetype, BROOMSTICK BY JOHN BIGUENET (THEATER) natural-cultural-political disaster, and fabulism. This staged reading is directed by George Panelists: Ava Leavell Haymon, Julie Kane, Benjamin Morris, and Judy, Artistic Director of Swine Palace, and Alison Pelegrin. features Cristine McMurdo-Wallis. Moderator: Darrell Bourque. In Broomstick , a witch confesses all: her first Muriel’s Jackson Square Restaurant, Festival Panel Pass. love affair, how she discovered her powers, how Sponsored by LSU Press. she has used them. But more than that, it is a funny and frightening return to our childhoods, 4 P.M. where we first wrestled with evil and justice. For LIVING OUT LOUD: A CONVERSATION the witch is a completely unsentimental moralist WITH PIPER LAURIE who knows everything about the human Throughout her long and storied career on the stage heart—having been both its victim and avenger and screen, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner all her long life—and who metes out inexorable and Academy Award nominee Piper Laurie’s perfor - justice, immune to our pleas for mercy, mances are carefully crafted jewels that transport audi - cackling at our excuses. In Broomstick , whiners wind up in casseroles. ences deeply into her characters. Now, the Festival Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom, $25. brings the celebrated actress to our stage for a discus - sion of her life and work. From her early days as an 8 P.M. actress at the age of 17, Laurie worked in films with HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ Ronald Reagan and others. But fed up with the studio TREASURES (SPECIAL EVENT/THEATER) system, she escaped to New York where she concentrated on stage acting Some of Tennessee’s most beautiful writing is “hidden” in some of before returning to the screen for memorable roles in The Hustler , Carrie , his lesser-known works as well as within his most famous plays. Children of a Lesser God , and others. Laurie has said, “As far back as I can Now, in an evening that’s not-to-be-missed, luminaries of the page remember, I’ve only had one real ambition: to be an actress.” In conversa - and stage gather to share some of the playwright’s unsung treasures. tion with film and theater historian Foster Hirsch , Laurie will discuss her Reading gems culled from full-length plays, one-acts, letters, and life in the lights and her new memoir, Learning to Live Out Loud . essays, actress Piper Laurie, playwright John Guare, actress Amanda Sponsored by Gail and John Bertuzzi. Plummer, author Jewelle Gomez, columnist Amy Dickinson, director Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. and actress Jodie Markell, actress Cristine McMurdo-Wallis, author

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Ace Atkins, actor Christian LeBlanc, and Festival thespian Janet Daley Duval will take a closer look at the Williams canon and bring his words to life with an evening of readings from well-known plays including Suddenly Last Summer and The Night of the Iguana , as well as remarkable monologues and scenes from plays you might not be as familiar with such as Candles to the Sun , Clothes for a Summer Hotel , Not About Nightingales , Tiger Tail , The Fat Man’s Wife , The Day on Which a Man Dies , Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? and Something Cloudy, Something Clear . This theatrical treasure hunt offers an entertaining and surprising look at Williams’ legacy. Hosted by Thomas Keith, and curated by Keith and Paul J. Willis. Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom, $35. Sponsored by the Bollinger Family Foundation.

7:30 P.M. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (THEATER) Directed by Jason Kirkpatrick A play that truly comes from the heart of our city—what better way to celebrate Southern Rep’s 25 th anniversary than with this startlingly fresh production of one of the best plays in the pantheon of American theater? Originally scheduled for Southern Rep’s cancelled 2006 Post-Katrina season, Streetcar makes a tri - umphant return to New Orleans. Get tickets at www.SouthernRep.com or (504) 522-6545. Southern Repertory Theatre at Michalopoulos Studios, 527 Elysian Fields Avenue.

18 MARCH 25, 2012

9S Au.M.n – 2d:30a P.yM. play in the Festival’s 2011 One-Act Play Contest. FESTIVAL TICKET SALES, ORLEANS ROOM Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom. Free with Festival Pass or AT THE HOTEL MONTELEONE $5 at the door.

BOOK FAIR, ORLEANS ROOM 11:30 A.M. AT THE HOTEL MONTELEONE THE THEATER NOW: A CONVERSATION WITH Local independent bookseller Garden District Book Shop will offer FOUR CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS books for sale by Festival authors, along with special books about The Festival is honored to present a discussion of plays and playwriting Louisiana and all things Tennessee. with a cadre of some of the most interesting American playwrights. Picking up the torch from Tennessee, these scribes have already left their CONCESSIONS AND SOUVENIRS, PARLOR ROOM mark on the American stage. John Biguenet’s plays include Shotgun, AT HOTEL MONTELEONE Night Train, Broomstick, Rising Water, and The Vulgar Soul. He is the Book bags, note cards, T-shirts, and more—exclusive to the Festival. recipient of many awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence grant. Jewelle Gomez’s adaptation of the 10 A.M. novel Bones and Ash was commissioned and performed by Urban Bush THE ART OF THE ENDING Women Company. Her newest play, Waiting for Giovanni, a dream play All writers struggle with endings. Tennessee Williams composed at least about James Baldwin, recently had its world premiere at the New three different final scenes for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , and his original Conservatory Theatre Center. John Guare is best known as the author of script for the The Rose Tattoo includes 10 variant endings. This panel— The House of Blue Leaves , Six Degrees of Separation , and Landscape of which includes a novelist, a nonfiction author, a screenwriter and a play - the Body , as well as the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for wright—will look at pitfalls and possibilities of bringing a narrative to a Atlantic City . His most recent play, A Free Man of Color , premiered at successful conclusion. It will also explore the clash between the writer’s Lincoln Center Theater in 2010. Martin Sherman’s plays include Bent , vision and the audience’s expectations about endings. Rose , Fat Tuesday , Passing By , A Passage to India (adapted from E. M. Panelists: Scott Blackwood, Barbara Hambly, Amy Hempel, and Forster), and Onassis . His stage version of Tennessee Williams’ novel Martin Sherman. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone recently premiered in Tokyo, and his Moderator: Miles Harvey. television adaptation of the novel starred Helen Mirren. Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Panelists: John Biguenet, Jewelle Gomez, John Guare, and Martin Sherman. 10 A.M. Moderator: Thomas Keith. A UNIQUE SLANT OF LIGHT: THE BICENTENNIAL Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. HISTORY OF ART IN LOUISIANA Sponsored by Ted and Mary Merle Laborde. Commissioned by the Bicentennial Commission, A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana , is a beautiful new 11:30 A.M. book featuring the work of approximately 275 artists and photogra - READING AND WRITING ABOUT THE LAW—FROM phers. Editors Michael Sartisky, Ph.D., president of the Louisiana ALL SIDES Endowment for the Humanties (LEH); and J. Richard Gruber, Ph.D., This panel takes its inspiration from a recent essay collection, Courtroom director emeritus of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art appear with art Carnival: Famous New Orleans Trials , edited by S.L. Alexander, a collector and philanthropist Roger Ogden and artist George Rodrigue to Loyola professor/journalist with a longtime interest in legal affairs. discuss this important work. Charles Zewe, vice president for communication and external affairs for Panelists: J. Richard Gruber, Roger Ogden, and George Rodrigue. the Louisiana State University system, wrote an essay for that book about Moderator: Michael Sartisky. the trials of Al Copeland, “The Chicken King.” Lawyer Tony Dunbar is Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. the author of the mystery series featuring lawyer Tubby Dubonnet, and lawyer Bill Rittenberg is part of a longtime book group composed of 10 A.M. lawyers and judges. Pamela Binnings Ewen, moderator, is a lawyer who STAGED READING OF THE 2012 FESTIVAL writes both fiction and non-fiction. ONE-ACT PLAY CONTEST WINNER (THEATER) Panelists: S.L. Alexander, Tony Dunbar, Bill Rittenberg, and The University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre, and Charles Zewe. Communication Arts presents a reading of the winning entry in the 2012 Moderator: Pamela Binnings Ewen. Festival’s national One-Act Play Contest. The Creative Writing MFA Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Program at the University of New Orleans administers and coordinates the competition judging. The winning playwright receives a $1,500 cash prize. 11:30 A.M. Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom. Free with Festival Pass or WALKER PERCY: A DOCUMENTARY FILM $5 at the door. (SPECIAL SCREENING) Pulitzer Prize winner Walker Percy has said his concerns as a writer were 11 A.M. with “a theory of man, man as more than organism, more than consumer— AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABOUT MY BROTHER BY man the wayfarer, man the pilgrim, man in transit, on a journey.” And with JUSTIN KURITZKES (THEATER) time-honored classics such as The Moviegoer , the physician-turned-writer’s Andrew’s brother is about to be executed for killing 25 people. On the wry observations about the meaning of life have long-delighted readers. eve of his brother’s execution, Andrew looks back on his own life, his Festival-goers have the chance to gain a new perspective on one of the brother’s, and the places where they intersect. Also, Andrew lies a lot. South’s greatest literary voices with this special screening of a new docu - The University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre, and mentary about the author. Through archival film, excerpts of Percy’s work, Communication Arts presents the premiere production of the winning and interviews with family, friends and scholars, Walker Percy: A

19 DAY OF MUSIC AT THE PALM COURT JAZZ CAFE— DRUMMER AND SMOKE 1204 Decatur Street. Each session included with Festival Panel Pass or $10 at the door.

11:30 A.M. Ferbos, celebrating his centennial, is the MUSICIANS BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE OF NEW oldest still-active jazz musician in New ORLEANS IN NEW ATLANTIS AND HBO’S TREME Orleans. He has played with the Mighty Author John Swenson discusses how his book New Atlantis charts Four band, the New Orleans Ragtime the return of musicians to New Orleans after the post-Katrina federal Orchestra, and is a regular at the Palm flood and the many ways musicians helped to drive the city’s recovery. Court Jazz Café. Here’s a fair share of Lionel Ferbos and “Uncle” One of the main characters in New Atlantis is longtime Treme resident our musical history, all in one place. Davis Rogan , a pianist, singer-songwriter and DJ. Rogan is a musical Sponsored by New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. advisor for the HBO series Treme and the inspiration for one of its main characters, Davis McAlary. Swenson and Rogan will talk about 2:30 P.M. the music of the recovery era and how it relates to themes covered in SWINGING THE HIPPEST OF THE STANDARDS New Atlantis and Treme . Rogan will play songs that illustrate those Join some of New Orleans’ most lauded jazz musicians as they perform themes, including material from his new album The Real Davis . selections that have come to be recognized as modern jazz classics or stan - dards. These elegant songs, crafted by both masters of the popular idiom 1 P.M. as well as bona fide jazz composers, are noted for their unique structural BETWEEN THE LIONELS: LIVING TREASURES OF challenges, complicated chord progressions, shifting tonal centers and NEW ORLEANS MUSIC modulations, not to mention frequently clever and urbane lyrics. Testing Lars Edegran , leader of the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra and the virtuosity of singer and instrumentalist alike, songs such as Billy all-around musical whiz, moderates a discussion and leads a musical Strayhorn’s “Lush Life,” Bronislaw Kaper’s “Invitation,” and Duke performance with jazz musicians “Uncle” Lionel Batiste and Lionel Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady” will be showcased. Featured musicians Ferbos . “Uncle” Lionel began performing in 1942 playing bass drum are Germaine Bazzle and Phillip Manuel (vocals) , David Torkanowsky with the Square Deal Social & Pleasure Club. He is currently the bass (keyboards) , Charlie Gabriel (tenor saxophone) , Roland Guerin (bass) , drummer, vocalist, and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band. Lionel and Jason Marsalis (drums). The moderator will be Henry C. Lacey.

Documentary , examines Percy’s own jour - 1 P.M. ney. Followed by a discussion with the film - THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND maker, Win Riley , the film lets audiences (feature film screening) become true “Moviegoers” as they learn Trapped in a world of rooftop parties and plantation soirées, a rebellious from this formidable talent. socialite defies convention and hires a handsome farm hand as an escort. Williams Research Center, Festival An unconventional romance blooms and is jeopardized when the loss of a Panel Pass. priceless diamond sets off a series of accusations and betrayals in this rediscovered screenplay by Tennessee Williams (penned in 1957). The 11:30 A.M. film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released in 2010. NEW ORLEANS FOOD Clear Channel says, “Tennessee Williams must be smiling from heaven.” MEMORIES (SPECIAL EVENT) 632 Saint Peter (Tennessee Directed by Jodie Markell, the film stars Bryce Dallas Howard ( The Help ; Join WYES-TV producer and co-author Williams’ residence in 1946, when The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ), Chris Evans ( Captain America ) and Oscar he wrote Streetcar) 1963; by Dan S. of Lost Restaurants of New Orleans Peggy Leyrer, photographer; Vieux Carré winner Ellen Burstyn, with Will Patton and Ann-Margret. Featuring ele - Scott Laborde as she discusses local food Survey, courtesy of The Historic gant costumes, sumptuous set designs, a magnificent Southern backdrop reminiscences with Tom Fitzmorris , host New Orleans Collection (filmed on location in Louisiana), and Williams’ legendary dialogue, The of The Food Show radio program and co-author of Lost Restaurants of Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is a finely crafted tale of the powers of seduc - New Orleans ; and national food & wine expert and author John tion, temptation, and heartbreak. Jodie Markell will be in attendance to Mariani . Whet your appetite with a sensory feast of New Orleans’ introduce the film and for the post-screening Q & A. famous culinary scene. (And what food discussion would be complete Williams Research Center, Festival Panel Pass. without a beverage and a little something to nosh on?) The Pelican Club Restaurant, 312 Exchange Alley, $25 limited seating. Sponsored by the Pelican Club Restaurant and New Orleans Magazine.

1 P.M. CITYSCAPES: WRITING THE AMERICAN CITY IN FACT AND FICTION Writing about the American city poses special problems and offers par - ticular pleasures, whether you’re a novelist, memoirist, or historian. Of course, writers about New York have the pre- and post-9/11 dilemma, just as writers about New Orleans always write in the shadow of Katrina. Larry Powell discusses his brand new work of history about New Orleans, The Accidental City ; Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts talks about writing Harlem is Nowhere ; Laura Lippman describes the real city of Baltimore she depicts in her novels; and Susan Larson, who has been reading books about New Orleans for 25 years, moderates. Panelists: Laura Lippman, Larry Powell, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. Moderator: Susan Larson. Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass.

20 1 P.M. 3 P.M. TALKING TENNESSEE: A CONVERSATION WITH A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (THEATER) PIPER LAURIE AND AMANDA PLUMMER Directed by Jason Kirkpatrick Actresses who play Tennessee’s beautifully written roles for women share a A play that truly comes from the heart of our city—what better way to special bond; with each performance they are joining a theatrical dynasty— celebrate Southern Rep’s 25 th anniversary than with this startlingly Tennessee’s sorority of fabulous, flawed, unforgettable female characters. In fresh production of one of the best plays in the pantheon of 1965, Piper Laurie starred in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ American theater? Originally scheduled for Southern Rep’s can - The Glass Menagerie , Laura Wingfield to Maureen Stapleton’s Amanda celled 2006 Post-Katrina season, Streetcar makes a triumphant return Wingfield. In 1983, Amanda Plummer portrayed Laura opposite Jessica to New Orleans. Tandy’s Amanda in another Broadway revival. These two brilliant actress - Get tickets at www.SouthernRep.com or (504) 522-6545. es reminisce about the challenges of the role and their singular productions Southern Repertory Theatre at Michalopoulos Studios, 527 Elysian of one of the playwright’s most memorable works. Foster Hirsch facilitates Fields Avenue. this discussion about Williams and his women. During the discussion, enjoy a complimentary Williams’ inspired Ramos 4:15 P.M. Gin Fizz—provided by Hendrick’s Gin. STANLEY AND STELLA SHOUTING CONTEST Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. Contestants vie to rival Stanley Kowalski’s shout for “STELLAAAAA!!!” in the unforget - 2:30 P.M. table scene from A Streetcar Named Desire . WRITING MARATHON WRAP-UP WITH RICHARD Women contestants are welcome to try a little LOUTH (SEE PAGE 5 FOR MORE INFORMATION) role reversal and yell for Stanley. Free and open Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass. to the public. Prizes will be awarded. Jackson Square. 2:30 P.M. Sponsored in part by the Upper Pontalba LAUGH AND THE WORLD READS WITH YOU— Building on Jackson Square. FAVORITE COMIC NOVELS We read books for many reasons—for enlightenment, for instruction, and for consolation. But we also read to be amused, to be diverted and taken out of ourselves. Every reader’s known the joy of laughing out loud at a funny sentence, then sharing it with an inquiring onlooker. Former National Book Critics Circle president Jane Ciabattari leads writers in a discussion of favorite comic novels. Bring your favorites too: Confederacy of Dunces ; Don Quixote ; or A Confederate Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ? Panelists: Joshua Clark, Amy Dickinson, Jewelle Gomez, and Ted O’Brien. Moderator: Jane Ciabattari. Hotel Monteleone Queen Anne Ballroom, Festival Panel Pass.

2:30 P.M. SELECTED SCENES FROM STEEL MAGNOLIAS BY ROBERT HARLING We invite you to take a trip to Northwest Louisiana to visit Truvy’s beauty parlor in this comedy-drama play reading about the bond among a group of Southern women who are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel. This staged reading is directed by Perry Martin and features the Bayou Playhouse production with actresses Kathryn Tabot, Daphney Hernandez, Jillian Vedros-Rowan, Pat Hornsby Crochet, Jackie Freeman, and Abby Lake. Steel Magnolias made its New York premiere 25 years ago, and has since become a theatrical classic. Hotel Monteleone, La Nouvelle Ballroom, $25.

Don’t miss the upcoming production of Tennessee With over 124 years of solid financial Williams’ rarely produced The Two-Character Play . Gene performance, Iberiabank offers strength, David Kirk, Artistic Director of London’s Jermyn Street stability, and security. Iberiabank is well positioned to meet personal and busi - Theatre, will re-stage his successful production in New ness needs now and well into the future. Experience the Iberiabank York with an all-star cast, starring Amanda Plummer ! Be difference today. Visit any one of our 23 convenient locations in the greater sure to see what Williams called his “most beautiful play New Orleans area. Iberiabank is proud to be a part of the community and a sponsor of the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. since Streetcar .” For further announcements and We’d like to thank Iberiabank for staffing our box office over the Festival updates, visit www.twocharacterplay.com. weekend. For more information: http://iberiabank.com

21 The 26th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Funding Support for th e Festival THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS /N EW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL IS A NON -PROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATION MADE POSSIBLE BY MANY KINDRED SPIRITS WHO TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN KEEPING THE LITERARY ARTS VIBRANT AND ACCESSIBLE . T HE FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE ARE ALL OF THE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT MAKE THIS EVENT HAPPEN . W E MOST GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR VITAL HELP , ENCOURAGEMENT , AND SUPPORT ON THESE PAGES .

Louisiana Endowment for of scholarly, intellectual, and creative merit while preserving and sharing the Humanities Louisiana's history and culture. As a mission-driven nonprofit, the Press contin - Major funding for the Festival is made possible ues to publish award-winning titles like A Confederacy of Dunces, The Late Wife, through a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for The House on Boulevard Street and nationally recognized books such as the Humanities, state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since Preservation Hall, and Art Matters . the Festival’s inception, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has provided vital support to our organization, facilitating the Festival’s literary program, assuring Patrick F. Taylor Foundation essential funding for panel discussions, as well as underwriting our annual “Coffee and Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Taylor founded the Patrick F. Taylor Conversation” series. LEH celebrates the many cultures of Louisiana and shares the Foundation in 1985 as a gesture of thanks to the nation that had given Festival’s goals of promoting literacy and cultural curiosity. them so much. The Patrick F. Taylor Foundation strives to build a bet - ter America. Although best known for its work in education through Bollinger Family Foundation promotion of the Taylor Plan/TOPS, the Foundation also supports Founded by the Donald Bollinger family in 1998, the law enforcement, the military, and other humanitarian efforts. Bollinger Family Foundation supports area educational, cultural, and historical endeavors. Muriel’s Jackson Square Restaurant Muriel’s Jackson Square continues its relationship Louisiana Division of the Arts with the Festival as a major sponsor by hosting sev - The Festival is supported by grant funds from the Louisiana eral of our literary panels and special events. Located Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, on Jackson Square in the French Quarter, Muriel’s offers fine cuisine and quintessential Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation New Orleans charm. with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Cenac Towing Co., LLC agency. We thank the Louisiana Division of the Arts for its con - We are proud to acknowledge our continued partnership with tinued efforts to encourage the expansion of audiences and to Cenac Towing Co., LLC. With their generous support we are able stimulate public participation in the arts in Louisiana while to continue to bring in theatrical legends to our Festival programs. developing Louisiana’s cultural econ - Cenac Towing also helped to sponsor this year’s writing contests. omy. This grant went toward provid - A special thank you to Josh, Jock, and Mr. Arlen B. Cenac, Jr. ing support for our literary program. The Zemurray Foundation The Arts Council of The Festival is deeply thankful to the Zemurray Foundation, whose contributions in New Orleans support of operations enable the ongoing stability of our organization. This program is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by The Joe W. & Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation the City of New Orleans as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. We value The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation was established in 1959 and the continued support of the Arts Council of New Orleans and its continued efforts to is involved in funding medical research; housing for the homeless; organizations expand the opportunities for artistic expression which bring the community together. who care for the sick, hungry, or helpless; religious and educational institutions; and organizations and groups concerned with improving our local community. University of New Orleans Efforts are restricted to the states of Louisiana and Mississippi with a focus on As an institute of higher learning, the University of South Louisiana, the New Orleans area and the Mississippi New Orleans understands the importance of nurtur - Gulf Coast. ing new intellectual ideas in the arts. Since 1987, UNO has generously provided administrative services and professional production Reily Foods Company/French Market Coffee values while working with the Festival to make its One-Act Play Contest a success. Based in one of the world's great culinary centers, Reily Liaising the strengths of the Creative Writing Workshop and the Department of Film, Foods Company has been offering consumers high-quality Theatre, and Communication Arts, UNO seeks to foster new talents while upholding products and service for more than 100 years. Today, Reily standards of literary excellence. Foods Company continues to manufacture and market not only the highest quality coffees and teas including many The Historic New Orleans Collection private label brands but a wide variety of specialty brands Embracing the past, sustaining the crossing many categories including cake flour, sauces, chili future, The Historic New Orleans seasonings, salad dressings, bean soups, and brownie mixes. Collection maintains its partnership with the Festival as the host for our Tulane University Tennessee Williams Scholars Tulane pursues its mission by cultivating an environment that Conference and our Master Class series. For 26 years, the rich cultural backdrop of focuses on learning and the generation of new knowledge; by THNOC’s courtyard and lecture hall have provided a tranquil setting in which stu - expecting and rewarding teaching and research of extraordinarily dents of literature can share new ideas and learn from each other. We also appreciate high quality and impact; and by fostering community-building the hospitality provided by The Collection for our patrons and visiting authors. initiatives as well as scientific, cultural, and social understanding that integrate with and strengthen learning and research. This National Endowment for the Arts mission is pursued in the context of the unique qualities of our location in New Through its literature, a nation expresses its hopes and Orleans and our continual aspiration to be a truly distinctive international university. fears, and tells its stories to its citizens and to the world. The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to providing The Ruth U. Fertel Foundation opportunities for Americans to make literature a more The Ruth U. Fertel Foundation—established important part of their daily lives. The Arts Endowment in the will of the founder of the Ruth’s Chris seeks to sustain and nurture a multiplicity of American literary traditions by: Steak House fine dining chain—supports • Ensuring that literary presses and magazines, community-based organiza - education in Louisiana, including public, tions, and national literary centers complement the trade publishing sector in the private and parochial schools; special programs designed to serve students from shaping of contemporary American letters. kindergarten through college; and other high-impact educational initiatives. • Supporting organizations that nurture emerging and mid-career writers and provide assistance to nascent literary organizations. Hotel Monteleone • Supporting endeavors to provide America's readers with The Hotel Monteleone’s $70,000,000 direct access to contemporary writers. restoration has transformed this his - toric and literary legend to its original LSU Press stature as New Orleans Grand Dame. 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22 Festival Underwriting and Support is also provided by these valued sponsors and individuals:

Adelaide Benjamin The Azby Fund Brennan’s Restaurant Besh Steak at Harrah’s Chevron Hendrick’s Gin New Orleans Film Socity New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park New Orleans Magazine New Orleans Museum of Art Reily Foods Company St. Charles Avenue Magazine The Pelican Club New Orleans Restaurant The Union Pacific Foundation Windsor Court Hotel

Friends of Tennessee (as of February 20, 2012) Tennessee Williams’ tragic heroine, Blanche DuBois, was fond of saying she relied on the kindness of strangers. The Festival took her advice years ago and, as a result, continues to grow and expand with every season. But we go Blanche one better—we invite all kind strangers to become our friends. If you are interested in becoming a Friend of Tennessee, please see our website, www.tennesseewilliams.net, or call (504) 581-1144.

LAUREATES: Edward Lebreton Brian and Constance Nelson Lee Elman John and Gail Bertuzzi Larry and Arlene Manguno Sandra Nickel Joan Faust Ted and Mary Merle Laborde Bev and Butch Marshall Stuart Noel Randall Feldman The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Pat and Lee Mason Judy Palmer Lynda Gladney Foundation Inc. Andy and Diane Plauche Karen Perschall David Hoover Hal Reed Clare Beth Pierson Julie Hunt-Juneau CONDUCTOR'S CIRCLE: Ann Plicque Richard and Doris Louth Allain and Judy Andry JOURNALISTS: Nancy Pond Russell Luke Patricia Brady Lynn Adams Mary Ramsey Evans Kristen-Paige Madonia Richard Campeau Tiki Axelrod Al and Helene Rufty Lynne Neitzschman Janet Daley Duval Wally Babington Calvin Drew Sanders Nell Nolan Margaret Dziedzic Dorothy Ball Lenoir Seelhorst Carl Parrish Danella Hero Elizabeth and Johnny Barron Tommiann Smith Charles Rodney Smith Susan K. Hoskins Caroline and Wayne Blank Richard Stewart Linda Smith Helen and George Ingram Scott Brickwood Paul Tines Borden and Sara Wallace Carol Lee Klose Ann Maylie Bruce Jerry and Ruby Tremont Harold Young Mary Myrick Langlois Barbara Buckingham Bonnie Warren Lea Young Pamela and Jimmy Lott Daniel J. Clayton Darlene Wolnik Mark Zelinsky Brobson Lutz Elizabeth Clemens Edmund and Kathy Schrenk William and Maureen Detweiler BIBLIOPHILES: STUDENTS: Janice Donaldson-Grijns Joy Bollinger Liz and Michael Landry EDITORS: Louann Dorrough Chyrell Botts Frederick Lawson Sharon Donovan Martha Edmonds Orlin and Shirley Corey John and Joan Reddy Kathy Higgins and Terry Verigan Barbara Ewell D. Andrew Edmonson Sara Woodard Pat and Trulay Juneau Eleanor Farnsworth Sandra Freeman Henry C. Lacey Thanks to these generous contributors, who give in-kind Susan Larson Patty Friedmann and individual gifts of time and expertise: Gary Matus Ann Gorham Michael Sartisky Sara Herrington Bayou , University of New Orleans Caitlin Massey Southeastern Louisiana University, Kate Hoffman Rose Bratcher Joi Raines Department of English Louise Hoffman Nina Buck and Kathy Edegran, Paul and Judy Schmollinger Robert and Sharon Weilbaecher John Kemp Palm Court Jazz Café Kathy Slimp Peggy Wilson Amy Kirk Duvoisin Mark Cave Chris Smith, Jefferson Parish Library Bill and Jacqueline Koenig Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson Phyllis Taylor NOVELISTS: Michael Ledet Tom Erhardt, Lori and Ricky Thomas Charles and Mary Anderson Brigitta Malm Casarotto Ramsay, Ltd. Ruby Tremont Richard and Charlene Barker Ann Marquez Rick Gratia Chris Wiltz Dr. and Mrs. Philip Brewer Adelaide Martin Harrah’s Casino, New Orleans WWNO-FM Richard and Janis Britson Dominic Massa Louisiana Cultural Vistas WRBH-FM Ellen Johnson and Ronald Swartz Julie McCollam Louisiana Literature , Errol and Peggy Scott Laborde Betty McDermott Southeastern Louisiana University Albert McMeen John and Priscilla Lawrence 23 Participants

Eve Abrams is a is the author of Wicked City , Devil’s appointed senior vice president of the special edition chapbook, radio producer, Garden (nominated for a 2010 academic affairs and provost at Holding the Notes . He served as writer, audio Hammett Prize), and Infamous , as Tulane University, where is also Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2007 documentarian, well as a series of four Nick Travers professor of history and economics. to 2008 and from 2009 to 2011. He and educator novels. His short story, “Last Fair is professor emeritus in English and whose work Deal Gone Down,” was nominated John Besh’ s interdisciplinary humanities at the promotes the for a 2010 Edgar Award. restaurants— University of Louisiana at Lafayette telling and shar - August, Besh and is at work on a new manuscript, ing of individuals’ stories. Her work Ellen Baker is Steak, Borgne, Megan’s Guitar and Other Poems. regularly airs on New Orleans’ NPR author of Lüke, Lüke San station, WWNO, and on nationally Keeping the Antonio, La Patricia Brady syndicated programs such as the House , which Provence, has published “Tavis Smiley Show,” “Studio won the 2008 American Sector, biographies of 360,” “The World,” and “This Great Lakes Soda Shop, and Domenica—cele - Martha American Life.” Eve’s writing has Book Award. brate the traditions of Louisiana cook - Washington, appeared in Fourth Genre , Post She has worked ing. The award-winning chef is a fre - Julien Hudson, Road Magazine , and Where We as a bookseller and event coordina - quent guest chef on NBC’s Today and, most Know: New Orleans as Home . She is tor at an independent bookstore. show and has appeared on The Food recently, A the co-author of Preservation Hall . She lives in Minnesota and Maine. Network and the Sundance Channel. Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love He is the author of My New Orleans Story of Rachel and Andrew Constance Lisa Bankoff is and My Family Table: A Passionate Jackson . A research associate at Adler’s articles an agent who Plea for Home Cooking . Loyola University, she will teach a have appeared represents fic - course on biography, “Writing in Oxford tion, memoir, John Biguenet Lives,” next fall. Dr. Brady has con - American , Spy , and narrative is the author of tributed chapters in Printmaking in Utne Reader , nonfiction. Her seven books, New Orleans , Louisiana Women , Gambit Weekly , sales include including The The Blackwell Guide to George Philadelphia Nancy Horan’s Torturer’s Washington , and Virginia Women . Magazine , and elsewhere. She Loving Frank , Ann Patchett’s State Apprentice: received a first place award in fea - of Wonder , Jessica Maria Tuccelli’s Stories and Robert Bray is ture writing from the Louisiana Glow , The Great Deluge by histori - Oyster , and sev - the founding Press Association. Her memoir My an Douglas Brinkley, The New York eral award-winning plays including director of the Bayou: New Orleans Through the Times columnist Frank Bruni’s The Vulgar Soul , Rising Water, Tennessee Eyes of a Lover (Michigan State memoir Born Round, and bioethi - Shotgun, and Night Train. An O. Williams University Press, 2012) centers on cist Harriet Washington’s NBCC Henry Award winner for short fic - Scholars Bayou St. John and the hurricane award-winning Medical Apartheid . tion, he is the Robert Hunter Conference. He that changed everything. Distinguished University Professor is also the John M. Barry at Loyola University. founding editor of the Tennessee S.L. Alexander , is a New York Williams Annual Review . Bray is an award-win - Times best - Scott the author of Tennessee Williams ning journalist selling author Blackwood’s and His Contemporaries , who has worked whose books novel, We Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams in print and have won more Agreed to Meet Films and Postwar America (with R. broadcast, is the than 20 awards. Just Here won Barton Palmer), and the upcoming author of His latest book the AWP Prize Modern American Drama on Screen Courtroom is Roger Williams and the Creation for the Novel, (also with Palmer). Bray is a profes - Carnival: Famous New Orleans of the American Soul: Church, State, The Texas sor of English at Middle Tennessee Trials (October 2011). On the fac - and the Birth of Liberty , and his Institute of Letters Award for Best State University. ulty of Loyola’s School of Mass past books, include Rising Tide: Fiction, and was a finalist for the Communication, she has written The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 PEN USA Award. His first book, Richard extensively on free press/fair trial, and How It Changed America and the story collection In the Shadow of Campanella , a including Covering the Courts (2 nd The Great Influenza: The Story of Our House , was published in 2001. geographer with ed. 2003) and Media and American the Deadliest Pandemic in History . Blackwood grew up in Texas and the Tulane Courts (2004). Dr. Alexander hosts now lives in Chicago, where he is an School of “Writers Forum,” a weekly author- Michael assistant professor of English and Architecture, is interview program on WRBH-FM, Bernstein directs the MFA Creative Writing the author of six New Orleans. earned his B.A., Program at Roosevelt University. critically M.A., and acclaimed books on historical geog - Ace Atkins, a Ph.D. degrees in Darrell raphy, including Bienville’s former crime economics at Bourque’s Dilemma , Geographies of New reporter, earned Yale University. books include Orleans , and Lincoln in New a Pulitzer nomi - He has held fac - Plainsongs , The Orleans . The only two-time winner nation for his ulty appointments at Cambridge Doors between of the Louisiana Endowment for the Tampa Tribune University, Mills College, Princeton Us , Burnt Water Humanities “Book of the Year” investigation University and the University of Suite , The Blue award, Campanella has also received into a forgotten California, San Diego. He also Boat, Call and the Williams Prize for Louisiana murder of a woman in the 1950s. served briefly as a staff economist Response: Conversations in Verse, History and the Monroe Fellowship That series led to his critically with the U.S. Department of with Jack B. Bedell, In Ordinary and Excellence in Teaching Award acclaimed novel, White Shadow . He Energy. In July 2007, he was Light, New and Selected Poems and from Tulane University.

24 Jane Ciabattari Rumors at Rivertown Theater in Lou Dubose is On Trial . Binnings Ewen serves on is the author of 2011. She currently serves as the editor of the the board of the Festival and is the the short story board president for the Tennessee Washington founder of the Northshore Literary collection Williams/New Orleans Literary Spectator. He Society in St. Tammany Parish. Stealing the Fire Festival. was the co- and a contribu - author, with the Alison tor to Long Jarvis late Molly Ivins, Fensterstock Island Noir DeBerry , an of New York has written (Akashic Books, May 2012). Recent editorial writer Times bestselling titles Shrub: The about Louisiana short stories are online at The and columnist, Short But Happy Political Life of music and cul - Literarian, KGB Bar Lit, Verbsap, has worked for George W. Bush and Bushwhacked: ture for Paste , and Lost Magazine. Her criticism The Times- Life in George W. Bush’s America . He Vibe , Oxford and cultural reporting have Picayune since is also the co-author of The Hammer American , appeared in The Daily Beast, 1997. He was and co-author of Vice: Dick Cheney American Songwriter , The Times- Bookforum, The Paris Review , The on the team awarded the Pulitzer and the Hijacking of the American Picayune, and other publications. New York Times , Los Angeles Time s, Prize for Public Service for cover - Presidency . His final collaboration The Definition of Bounce , in collab - Washington Post , among others. age of Hurricane Katrina and its with Ms. Ivins was Bill of Wrongs, oration with 10th Ward Buck, is her She is former president of the aftermath. In 2007 and 2011, his which was published in 2007. first book. She is the researcher and National Book Critics Circle. column was given first prize by oral historian for “Where They At,” the Louisiana/Mississippi Tony Dunbar is an ongoing documentary history of Joshua Clark is Associated Press Managing a lawyer and the New Orleans hip-hop and bounce, the author of Editors Association. DeBerry has author of the which appeared as an exhibition at Heart Like had poetry published in several Tubby the Ogden Museum of Southern Water: anthologies, most recently The Dubonnet mys - Art in 2010. Surviving Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean tery series set in Katrina and Life South. He lives in New Orleans New Orleans. Lucy Ferriss is in its Disaster with his wife, Kelly. The seventh the author of Zone , which is a episode, Tubby Meets Katrina , was nine books, finalist for the National Book Critics Amy the first novel set in the city to be mostly fiction. Circle award. His work has appeared Dickinson is published after the storm. He is the Early reviews in many newspapers, magazines, and the author of winner of the Lillian Smith Book describe her anthologies. The founder of Light of the bestselling Award, and his mysteries have been new novel, The New Orleans Publishing, he has memoir, The nominated for the Anthony and the Lost Daughter, edited such books as French Quarter Mighty Queens Edgar Allen Poe “Edgar” Awards. as “emotionally riveting” and “a Fiction , Southern Fried Divorce , of Freeville: A He has also written nonfiction books powerful domestic novel.” Her mem - Louisiana: In Words , How You Can Story of about the South and civil rights and oir, Unveiling the Prophet, was called Kill Al Qaeda (in 3 easy steps) , and Surprising Second Chances , a has lived for more than 30 years in Best Book of the Year by the You Are Your Own Gym . chronicle of her experiences and this beautiful and complicated city. Riverfront Times . Her novel, Against misadventures as a single mother. Gravity, received the Pirate’s Alley Alex V. Cook is She writes the syndicated advice Arielle Eckstut Faulkner award. Other work has a Baton Rouge column, “Ask Amy,” which is car - is the co-author received national acclaim and been writer whose ried in more than 150 newspapers of The Essential featured in The New York Times , work has and read by an estimated 22 mil - Guide To Southern Review , and elsewhere. appeared in lion readers daily. Dickinson is Getting Your Offbeat, Country known not only for her wisdom Book Published Randy Fertel is Roads, 225, but her wit. Since 2006, she has and six other president of Oxford been a featured panelist on NPR’s books. She is the both the Fertel American, The Believer, The Wire , comedy quiz show, “Wait Wait … co-founder of The Book Doctors, a Foundation and and DownBeat . He is also the author Don’t Tell Me.” company dedicated to helping the Ruth U. of two books, Darkness, Racket and authors get published, as well as an Fertel Twang and Louisiana Saturday John DiLeo is agent-at-large at The Levine Foundation, and Night (LSU Press, March 2012). the author of Greenberg Literary Agency. In her co-founded the Tennessee 20 years in the publishing business, Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Janet Daley Williams and she has helped hundreds of amateur Truth-Telling. He has taught English Duval is cur - Company: His writers become professional authors. at Harvard University, Tulane rently an attor - Essential Screen University, Lemoyne College, the ney employed Actors . His other Pamela University of New Orleans, and the as a senior law books include Binnings New School for Social Research. His clerk to a feder - And You Thought You Knew Classic Ewen ’s most work has appeared on NPR and in al district court Movies , which Pauline Kael called recent novel is the Huffington Post, Kenyon Review , judge in New “the smartest movie quiz book I’ve Dancing on Creative Nonfiction , Smithsonian , Orleans. However, her true love ever seen;” 100 Great Film Glass . A sequel New Orleans Magazine , Tikkun , and and avocation is theater and act - Performances You Should Remember titled Chasing the Gastronomica . He lives in New ing, which she has done since But Probably Don’t , which Adolph Wind is forth - Orleans and New York. high school. She has played Jessie Green called “a valuable and touch - coming in August 2012. Her works Sykes in the Festival’s production ing work;” Screen Savers , which was include the novels The Moon in the Tom Fitzmorris is the publisher of of A House Not Meant to Stand in the subject of an evening on Turner Mango Tree (2009 Christy Award The New Orleans Menu, and host of 2004 and was most recently in a Classic Movies; and Screen Savers Finalist), Secret of the Shroud , and a a daily radio talk show called “The production of Neil Simon’s Part Two , his first e-book. nonfiction book of apologetics, Faith Food Show With Tom Fitzmorris”

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on WWL and was director of Miles Harvey is Garden District of New Orleans. WWL Radio. the Memphis the author of He is the author Brooks Museum Painter in a Foster Hirsch of several books of Art, director Savage Land: is professor of including Tom of the Wichita The Strange film at Fitzmorris’s New Art Museum, Saga of the First Brooklyn Orleans Food , and deputy European Artist College, a fre - Hungry Town: A director of the in North quent host and Culinary History Of New Orleans, Morris Museum of Art. Co-editor of America , which received a 2008 moderator at The City Where Food is Almost A Certain Slant of Light , he has writ - Editors’ Choice award from Booklist many venues Everything , and co-author of Lost ten books on Robert Rauschenberg, and a best-books citation from The including the Players Club and the Restaurants of New Orleans . Benny Andrews, William Dunlap, Chicago Tribune . His previous book, American Cinematheque, and the Thomas Hart Benton, Elliott The Island of Lost Maps: A True author of 16 books, including A Catherine Frank Daingerfield, and other artists. Story of Cartographic Crime , was a Portrait of the Artist: The Plays of began her career national bestseller and was selected Tennessee Williams . in publishing as John Guare ’s by USA Today as one of the 10 best an editorial assis - latest play, A Free books of 2000. Michael S. D. tant at Viking Man of Color, Hooper is the Children’s Books was a 2011 Ava Leavell author of Sexual in New York. Pulitzer Prize Haymon is the Politics in the She spent more finalist. His other author of the Work of than 11 years acquiring and editing plays include poetry collec - Tennessee award-winning titles at Viking, even - Landscape of the tions Kitchen Williams: tually becoming executive editor. In Body , House of Blue Leaves (Obie and Heat and The Desire Over 2011, she and her family moved NY Drama Critics Circle Award), Six Strict Economy Protest (forthcoming from home to her beloved New Orleans, Degrees of Separation , and the adap - of Fire. She Cambridge University Press). He and she launched Catherine Frank tation of Two Gentlemen of Verona , teaches poetry writing in Baton has contributed articles to the Editorial Services, LLC, a full-service which won the Tony for Best Rouge, La., and directs a writers’ Tennessee Williams Annual Review editorial consultancy specializing in Musical. Guare also penned the retreat center in the mountains of (2009 and 2012 volumes) and has children’s books. Oscar-nominated Atlantic City . New Mexico. She is also the recipi - presented papers at the Scholars ent of the 2011 Mississippi Institute Conference. He is also the editor of Dirk Gindt A former New of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry. the Methuen Student Drama edition received his Orleans resi - of A Streetcar Named Desire (2009). Ph.D. in perfor - dent, Barbara Amy Hempel is mance studies in Hambly contin - the author of Jed Horne’s 2007 and is ues her well- four collections books include employed as a reviewed of stories. Her Desire Street research fellow at Benjamin first story, “In the about a the Department January histori - Cemetery Louisiana death of Musicology and Performance cal mystery series with its 11th Where Al Jolson row case, and Studies at Stockholm University. His book, Ran Away . In addition, she Is Buried,” is one Breach of Faith research unpacks the cross-cultural writes vampire novels (the newest of the most extensively anthologized about Hurricane and transnational dialogue that was being Blood Maidens ), and histori - of the last quarter century. Her most Katrina. As an editor of The Times- established when Tennessee cal mysteries as Barbara Hamilton recent publication, The Collected Picayune , he was part of a team Williams’ plays had their European (The Ninth Daughter , and its Stories of Amy Hempel (2006), won awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for cover - premieres in post-war Sweden. sequels). She now lives in Los the Ambassador Book Award and age of Katrina. His magazine writing Angeles and teaches history part- was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner has appeared in numerous magazines Jewelle Gomez time at a local community college. Award. She won the 2008 Rea and includes a profile of Tennessee is the author of Award for the Short Story and the Williams based on time spent with seven books Nigel Hamilton 2009 PEN/Malamud Award for the the playwright way back in 1975. including the has written Short Story. Her work has appeared double Lambda extensively about in Harper’s , Vanity Fair , GQ , The David Johnson Literary Award- life-writing in Yale Review , and many other publica - is executive edi - winning vampire books such as tions, and has been anthologized in tor of Louisiana novel, The Gilda Biography: A The Best American Short Stories , The Cultural Vistas Stories . Her stage adaptation of the Brief History Pushcart Prize , and The Norton magazine and novel, Bones and Ash, was commis - and How To Do Anthology of Short Fiction . KnowLA, the sioned and performed by Urban Biography: A Primer . He is also a digital encyclo - Bush Women Company. Her bestselling author, whose JFK: Greg Herren is pedia of newest play, Waiting for Giovanni, Reckless Youth was a New York Times the award-win - Louisiana (knowla.org), two projects a dream play about James Baldwin, bestseller, and an ABC television ning author of of the Louisiana Endowment for the had its world premiere at New mini-series starring Patrick 12 mystery nov - Humanities. During his 20 years Conservatory Theatre Center (San Dempsey. Hamilton’s other works els set in New editing the magazine, the publication Francisco) in August 2011. include The Brothers Mann , Monty , Orleans and an has won more than 100 awards from Bill Clinton , American Caesars: award-winning the Press Club of New Orleans. J. Richard Gruber is director emeri - Lives of the Presidents, From FDR to anthology editor. tus of the Ogden Museum of George W. Bush and the forthcom - He has published two novels for Julie Kane is the current Louisiana Southern Art and an independent ing, FDR at War (Houghton Mifflin young adults, more than 50 short Poet Laureate. Her two most recent curator, art historian, and writer. He Harcourt, 2013). stories, and lives in the Lower poetry collections are Jazz Funeral

26 (2009), the win - Peggy Scott the Los Angeles of the school’s Reilly Center for ner of the Laborde is the Times, Rolling Media & Public Affairs. Formerly Donald Justice senior producer Stone, an aide to three U.S. senators and a Poetry Prize, for WYES-TV Publisher’s Louisiana governor, Mann is the and Rhythm & and host of Weekly, author of critically acclaimed politi - Booze (2003), a Steppin’ Out , Newsday , and cal histories of the civil rights move - National Poetry New Orleans’ elsewhere, and ment and the Vietnam War. Series winner only weekly arts the memoir and Poets’ Prize finalist. She is a for - and entertainment review program. Evening’s Empire: The Story of My John Mariani is mer Fulbright Scholar and profes - In 2011, she won a regional Emmy. Father’s Murder. He is the recipient a columnist for sor of English at Northwestern State Laborde is a founding member of the of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Esquire and University in Natchitoches, La. Festival and continues to serve on the the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton Bloomberg board. She is the co-author of Lost University. Lazar’s writing has News, an author David Kaplan is Restaurants of New Orleans, Canal appeared in the New York Times and journalist of curator and co- Street: New Orleans’ Great Wide Way Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, 30 years. He is founder of the and Christmas in New Orleans. Newsday, BOMB and other places. the author of Provincetown He teaches creative writing at The Dictionary of American Food & Tennessee Henry C. Lacey Tulane University. Drink (1983) that was hailed as the Williams served as “American Larousse Theater Festival, Presidential Laura Gastronomique,” America Eats Out author of Professor of Lippman’s Tess (1991) won the International Tennessee Williams in Provincetown , English at Monaghan Association of Cooking and editor of Tenn at One Hundred . Dillard books By a Professionals Award, and How He directs plays around the world. University. He Spider’s Thread , Italian Food Conquered the World Tennessee Williams plays he’s staged has published The Last Place , (2011), which won the include Suddenly Last Summer extensively on Amiri Baraka and The Sugar International Gourmands Award (1993, in Russia in Russian), The other African-American writers. He is House , for best food book. Eccentricities of a Nightingale (2003, a member of the Tennessee Baltimore Blues , Charm City , in Cantonese at the Hong Kong Williams/New Orleans Literary Butchers Hill , No Good Deeds, and Jodie Markell Repertory Theater), and The Day on Festival’s board of directors and helps In Big Trouble have won every attended Which a Man Dies (2008 world pre - to organize our annual “Drummer major mystery prize including the Northwestern miere, in Chicago). and Smoke” music program. Edgar, Shamus, Agatha, Anthony, University and and Nero Wolfe awards, and her studied at New Michele Susan Larson is novel, In a Strange City, was named York’s Circle- Karlsberg the vice presi - a New York Times Notable Book of in-the-Square brings a unique dent for literary the Year. She and her husband, Theater. As an combination of programming David Simon, live in Baltimore, actress, she has worked with theater skills to effective - for the Festival. New Orleans, and New York. directors such as John Patrick ly carry out pub - She was the Shanley, John Malkovich, and Gary licity/marketing book editor for Richard Louth Sinise; film directors such as campaigns for the The Times- is a professor of Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, and authors, organizations and film/the - Picayune from 1988 to 2009. She English at Barry Levinson; starred at Lincoln ater professionals. She was recently hosts The Reading Life on Southeastern Center, The Public and presented with the Publishing WWNO, 89.9 FM and is the book Louisiana Steppenwolf; and won an Obie. Triangle Leadership Award. Along critic for Steppin’ Out on WYES- University, Markell’s feature film directing with Olivia Travel, she produced TV. She is the author of The where he teach - debut is Tennessee Williams’ The the first Olivia Book Expo on the Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans , es courses in Loss of a Teardrop Diamond . Holland America. She is the author currently being updated for a new Living Writers, Louisiana of Self Publishing Gay Books and is edition, and is a member of the Literature, and Creative Writing and Bev Marshall is the co-editor of To Be Continued National Book Critics Circle. received the university’s award for writer-in-resi - and To Be Continued: Take Two . Teaching Excellence. Founding dence at Piper Laurie is Director of the Southeastern Southeastern Thomas Keith an actress of stage Louisiana Writing Project, he creat - Louisiana edits all the and screen ed the “New Orleans Writing University and Tennessee known for her Marathon” and edited The Writing the author of Williams titles for roles in the films Marathon: In Good Company Walking New Directions, The Hustler , Revealed . He has published in Through Shadows, Right As Rain, which have Carrie , and Louisiana in Words , Country Hot Fudge Sundae Blues, and Shared included The Children of a Roads , and Louisiana Literature . Words: A Guide to Writers’ Groups Magic Tower & Lesser God , all of which brought her and Book Clubs. Her awards include Other One-Act Plays , The Traveling Academy Award nominations. She Robert Mann the Mississippi Library Association’s Companion & Other Plays , Mister has also worked extensively in televi - holds the Fiction of the Year Award and the Paradise & Other One-Act Plays , and sion and earned an Emmy for her role Manship Chair New York Public Library Best A House Not Meant to Stand , for in Promise . Laurie recently recounted in Journalism at Books for the Teen Age Award. She which he wrote the introduction. her experiences in her new memoir, the Manship serves on the board for the Keith is an adjunct professor in the Learning to Live Out Loud. School of Mass Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. Performing Arts Department at Pace Communication University and teaches acting at the Zachary Lazar is the author of the at Louisiana A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Lee Strasberg Institute. novel, Sway , a Best Book of 2008 in State University and is co-director Morris is the author of Coronary , a

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poetry collec - “Writer’s Forum” on WRBH-FM. communications consultancy spe - is a three-time Lambda Literary tion, and The cializing in higher education. Award winner, an RWA/FF&P Bella , a novella A real estate 2010 Prism award winner, and a about the developer, civic Amanda member of the Saints and Sinners United Nations leader, and phil - Plummer has Literary Hall of Fame. climate negotia - anthropist , received critical tions in Roger Ogden acclaim for her Sharifa Copenhagen. co-founded work in film, Rhodes-Pitts is The recipient of numerous awards Stirling television and a writer whose for his work, including a fellowship Properties and stage. Her film work has from the Mississippi Arts donated more than 1,000 pieces of work includes appeared in Commission and a residency from art from his personal collection to The Fisher King and Pulp Fiction . Transition , The A Studio in the Woods, he lives in form the initial holdings of the Plummer won a Tony, a Drama New York New Orleans. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Desk and a Boston Critics Circle Times, Other developments of his include award for her work in Agnes of God . Harper’s , Vogue , and Essence, Victor S. The Shops at Canal Place, Loews Amongst her stage credits are sever - among others. Originally from Navasky has Hotel, Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, al Tennessee Williams plays includ - Houston, Texas, she graduated in served as editor, and the Wyndham Riverfront ing The Glass Menagerie . She has 2000 from Harvard University and publisher, and Hotel. He is past president of the also won three Emmy Awards for was a Fulbright Scholar in the now publisher LSU Board of Supervisors and her television performances. United Kingdom. Rhodes-Pitts is emeritus of The currently serves on the New writing a trilogy on African Nation , which Orleans Aviation Board. John Pope is a Americans and utopia. Her first he joined in reporter for The book, Harlem is Nowhere , was pub - 1978. He is the George Delacorte Gregory Times-Picayune . lished in January 2011 by Little, Professor of Magazine Journalism Osborn is a He was part of Brown & Company and, in August at Columbia University’s Graduate native of the newspaper’s 2011, by Granta Books (UK). School of Journalism and chair of Southern team that won the Columbia Journalism Review . California and two Pulitzer Gary Richards His books include Kennedy works in the Prizes, a George is the author of Justice , National Book Award Louisiana Polk Award, a National Headliner Lovers and winner Naming Names, The Division/City Award, and the Medill Award for Beloveds: Sexual Experts Speak: The Definitive Archives at the New Orleans Public Courage in Journalism for coverage of Otherness in Guide to Authoritative Library. An expert on Louisiana’s Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Southern Misinformation (with Christopher Free People of Color and Creole Pope, who earned bachelor’s and Fiction, 1936- Cerf), Mission Accomplished! Or culture, he is also a licensed tour master’s degrees at the University of 1961 ; essays in How We Won the War In Iraq, and guide and avid genealogist. Texas, wrote his master’s thesis on Faulkner’s Sexualities, Comics and A Matter of Opinion. blacklisting in broadcasting. the U.S. South , and Beth Henley: A Alison Pelegrin Casebook , among other collections; Kathleen is the author of Lawrence N. and numerous journal articles Calhoun three poetry Powell has assessing southern literature and Nettleton has collections, taught history at culture. He is currently completing worked in all most recently Tulane a book delineating literary represen - facets of the pub - Big Muddy University since tations of gay New Orleans. He lishing industry River of Stars 1978. From teaches at the University of Mary with the inde - (2007) and 2000 to 2005, Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. pendent, family- Hurricane Party (2011), both from he was the direc - owned Pelican Publishing Company, the University of Akron Press. The tor of the Tulane/Xavier National Win Riley is a located in Gretna, La. She now man - recipient of a fellowship from the Center for the Urban Community. director, writer, ages daily operations. Nettleton National Endowment for the Arts, Today he directs the New Orleans and producer. attended LSU, receiving a degree in her poems have appeared in Center for the Gulf South at Tulane. His first film, marketing, and has held an active Poetry , Ploughshares , and Southern His most recent book is The Walter role in industry organizations includ - Review . Pelegrin is a member of Accidental City (Harvard, 2012). Anderson: ing the Publisher’s Association of the the English faculty at Southeastern Other publications include Troubled Realizations of South, the Small Press Steering Louisiana University. Memory (UNC, 2000), New Masters an Artist , won Committee of AAP, and on the (Yale, 1980; Fordham, 1999), and several film festival awards and was board of PAS. Diana Pinckley George Washington Cable’s New broadcast on PBS. Riley’s second has been an Orleans (LSU Press, 2008). project, Walker Percy: A Ted O’Brien avid mystery Documentary Film , was released in was born in fan since sec - Radclyffe has 2011. It won the Louisiana Baltimore, Md., ond grade, published more Endowment for the Humanities’ and was raised when she dis - than 35 novels Documentary Film of the Year in the Midwest. covered Nancy as well as Award. PBS is currently broadcast - He spent a Drew. Her mys - dozens of short ing the film nationwide. number of tery-centric feature stories or her stories, has edit - years in South “Get a Clue” review columns ed numerous Bill Rittenberg is a partner in the Florida before settling in New appear in The Times-Picayune anthologies, New Orleans firm of Rittenberg, Orleans in 2000. He is a book - every month. An honors English and, writing as L.L. Raand, has Samuel and Phillips. He is a gradu - seller, a media escort, a writer, and graduate of Duke University, she authored a paranormal romance ate of Newman and Tulane Law co-host of the radio program owns Pinckley Inc., a marketing series, The Midnight Hunters . She School. He is known for his advoca -

28 cy in civil rights Theatre Topics and the Tennessee and has published short stories in he was a mem - cases, winning Williams Annual Review . Ploughshares , Hayden’s Ferry ber of the fundamental Review , Barrelhouse, and the newspaper’s rights for institu - Tom Sancton Paycock Press anthology Gravity Pulitzer Prize- tionalized chil - worked for 22 Dancers: Even More Fiction by winning dren, women’s years as a writer, Washington Area Women. Her col - Hurricane right to choose, editor, and corre - lection of very short fiction, Curio , Katrina cover - teachers, street spondent for was published by Uncanny Valley age team. He musicians, marijuana smokers and TIME Magazine . Press early in 2011. has also contributed to Rolling even some middle-aged white men. Since his return Stone , Vibe , Blender , LA Weekly , He reads many books and has been to New Orleans Daniel J. Garden & Gun , and numerous in a book club of seven lawyers and in 2007, he has taught creative writ - Sharfstein , documentaries. He lives in his four judges for 22 years. ing at Tulane University and has author of The native New Orleans with his wife appeared regularly as a jazz clarinetist Invisible Line , is and two children. Groove Born and raised at Preservation Hall, Snug Harbor, an associate pro - Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and in New Iberia, and Jazz Fest. He has authored four fessor of law at the Music of New Orleans is his La., artist books, including Song For My Vanderbilt first book. George Fathers , a memoir of his jazz appren - University in Rodrigue is best ticeship in 1960s New Orleans. Nashville, Tennessee. A graduate of Nick Spitzer known for his Harvard College and Yale Law created and Blue Dog Series For the past 29 School, he has been awarded fellow - hosts “American and Cajun genre years, Michael ships from Harvard, New York Routes” (ameri - paintings. Rodrigue is the subject of Sartisky has University, and the National canroutes. 12 books on his art, as well as numer - been president Endowment for the Humanities. wwno.org), ous museum exhibitions, including and executive Sharfstein has written for The Yale the nationally 40-year career retrospectives at the director of the Law Journal , New York Times , Slate, heard public Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum Louisiana Economist , and Washington Post . radio program devoted to music in Memphis, Tenn., (2007), and the Endowment for and culture from a New Orleans New Orleans Museum of Art (2008). the Humanities, overseeing $50 mil - Martin and Gulf South perspective. He lion in humanities programs. Dr. Sherman ’s plays has produced cultural features for Davis Rogan is Sartisky three times has won the include Fat “All Things Considered” and a musician, Ashton Phelps Memorial Award for Tuesday , Passing “Nightline,” documentary films, songwriter, Editorial Writing and is the founding By , Crack , Rio and co-edited the book Public bandleader and editor of Louisiana Cultural Vistas Grande , Bent , Folklore and co-authored Blues former WWOZ and editor-in-chief of KnowLA, the Messiah , Some for New Orleans: Mardi Gras DJ. Rogan was Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Sunny Day , Rose , and America’s Creole Soul . A the inspiration of He is editor of the Bicentennial A Passage to India (from E.M. 2007 Guggenheim fellowship the Davis History of Art in Louisiana , forth - Forster), and Onassis . His films recipient, Spitzer is professor of McAlary character in HBO’s Treme coming in June 2012. include The Summer House , Alive American studies and anthropol - series. Rogan recently recorded his and Kicking , Bent , Callas Forever , The ogy at Tulane. second solo record, The Real Davis . David Savran is Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, and Whether explaining the truth about the author of Mrs. Henderson Presents . His stage David Henry his life after the myth of his character eight books, adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Sterry is the on Treme , lamenting the pitfalls of including novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. co-author of drinking bourbon, explaining the Communists, Stone recently premiered in Tokyo. The Essential seductive powers of a good French Cowboys and His plays have been produced in Guide To soup, or covering a Big Star classic Queers , about more than 50 countries, and he has Getting Your written by his late neighbor Alex Tennessee been nominated for two Tonys, two Book Published , Chilton, Davis has put together an Williams and Arthur Miller. His Oliviers and two BAFTAS. plus 11 other excellent record that not only lodges most recent is Highbrow/Lowdown: books, the most recent of which in your head after one listen, but will Theater, Jazz and the Making of the Julie Smith is appeared on the cover of the grow on you ever more. New Middle Class , the winner of the the author of Sunday New York Times Book Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book more than 20 Review . His books range from Annette J. on Drama or Theater. He is co-edi - novels, most set memoir to middle grade fiction, Saddik is profes - tor of the Journal of American in New Orleans from sports to reference. He is sor of theatre Drama and Theater and is the Vera and starring one also the co-founder of The Book and English at Mowry Roberts Distinguished of her detective Doctors, a company dedicated to the City Professor of Theater at the Graduate heroes, a cop helping authors get published. University of Center of the City of New York. named Skip Langdon, and a PI New York. She is named Talba Wallis. Her most recent Claudia the author of two Laura Ellen novel is Cursebusters, a paranormal Sternbach is books and one edited collection: Scott’s debut YA adventure tale, starring a tough, the editorial Contemporary American Drama novel is Death wily, but somewhat younger female board chair of (2007); The Politics of Reputation: Wishing, a protagonist. Her novel, New Orleans Memoir Journal The Critical Reception of Tennessee comic fantasy Mourning, won the Edgar Allan Poe and editor-in- Williams’ Later Plays (1999); and set in New award for best novel. chief of their Tennessee Williams: The Traveling Orleans. She celebrated pub - Companion and Other Plays (2008). teaches fiction Keith Spera writes about music lication Memoir (and). She has also She serves on the editorial boards of writing at George Mason University for The Times-Picayune . In 2005, worked as a columnist and feature

29 Participants writer for more than fifteen years, She began her ries and folklore. She lives in New and was the writer and director of and has written often for the San career at The York City with her husband and a recent documentary on the life Francisco Chronicle , Chicago Times-Picayune daughter. GLOW is her first novel. and works of the late German- Tribune, and San Francisco and, in 1996, American political philosopher, Examiner . Her first memoir, Now moved to Jesmyn Ward ’s Eric Voegelin. Breath, was published by Washington, second novel Whiteaker Press in 1999. Her latest D.C., where she Salvage The Added to the Program: memoir, Reading Lips, a Memoir of became the Bones won the Kisses, was published by Unbridled senior editor of NPR’s “Weekend 2011 National C. S. Harris Books in the spring of 2011. Edition” with Scott Simon. From Book Award in (aka Candice 2006 to 2010, Thompkins was Fiction. Her Proctor) is the John Swenson NPR’s East Africa correspondent. debut novel, bestselling has written about Thompkins spent the 2010-11 Where the Line Bleeds , was an author of the popular music school year as a fellow at the Nieman Essence Book Club selection, a Sebastian St. for Crawdaddy , Foundation for Journalism at Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Cyr mystery Rolling Stone , Harvard University. She is currently Award recipient, and a finalist for series, set in Circus , Rock writing a book of short stories. both the Virginia Commonwealth early nineteenth-century London. World , Saturday University Cabell First Novelist A former academic with a Ph.D. Review and Jessica Maria Award and the Hurston/ Wright in history, she also writes contem - OffBeat . He was a syndicated colum - Tuccelli’s pro - Legacy Award. Ward is currently porary thrillers as C.S. Graham nist for more than 20 years at United fessional expe - professor of creative writing at the with her husband, retired Army Press International and Reuters. rience includes University of South Alabama. intelligence colonel Steve Harris. Swenson has 14 published books filmmaking, After years of living in Europe, including the original Rolling Stone directing, and Charles Zewe the Middle East, and Australia, Record Guide and The Rolling Stone acting. She is is the LSU she now makes her home in New Jazz and Blues Album Guide . His lat - an advocate of System Vice Orleans. Her latest release is est book, New Atlantis , chronicles women survivors of war and girls’ President for When Maidens Mourn . how musicians battled to rebuild education. A graduate of MIT Communication New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. with a degree in anthropology, and External Fred Kasten is Tuccelli spent three summers Affairs. A native an award-win - Gwen Thompkins is a journalist trekking through northeastern of Louisiana ning radio pro - and writer living in New Orleans. Georgia, soaking up its ghost sto - and resident of New Orleans, Zewe ducer and holds a Master’s Degree in interviewer. In Communication from Loyola 2007, he University and a Ph.D. in retired from a Communication and Public two-decade- Affairs from LSU where, in addi - plus tenure at the New Orleans tion to his administrative duties, NPR affiliate, 89.9 WWNO, but he has served as an adjunct pro - continues to produce work for the fessor, teaching graduate courses station, including a weekly author in news governance and the inter - interview series, “The Sound of action between news organiza - Books” (Wednesday mornings at tions and government entities. He 7:35 a.m.) as well as other audio also lectures on crisis communi - projects at his home studio in the cation and media agenda setting Carrollton neighborhood. 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