initiate and develop new programming and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence is an executive producer of Veep, the long- in Journalism from Harvard University. He running comedy series created by Armando was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in Iannucci and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. 2015. He received an Emmy Award in 2015 Rich joined New York in 2011 following a for Veep, which was named Outstanding distinguished career at The New York Times, Comedy Series. At HBO, Rich has also been where he had been an op-ed columnist since an executive producer of Six by Sondheim, 1994 and was previously the paper’s chief a 2013 documentary for which he received drama critic, from 1980 to 1993. He has the Peabody Award and the ASCAP Deems written about culture and politics for many Taylor Television Broadcast Award, and the other national publications. His books include 2016 documentary Becoming Mike Nichols. his childhood memoir, Ghost Light, and The A native of Washington, DC, Rich attended Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Harvard College, where he earned a BA degree Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina. Rich’s in American history and literature. He has two journalistic honors include the George Polk sons. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the Award for commentary in 2005 and, in 2011, author and journalist Alex Witchel. Fran Lebowitz & Frank Rich: A Conversation on Art and Politics #FranandFrank

Mar 18, 2016 at 8pm | BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

FRAN LEBOWITZ, purveyor of urban cool, than being 60 is death, that’s pretty bad.” That witty chronicler of the ”me decade” and the is Fran Lebowitz off the cuff. Her writing— cultural satirist whom many call the heir to pointed, taut, and economical—is equally Dorothy Parker, remains one of the foremost forthright, irascible, and unapologetically advocates of the Extreme Statement. She offers opinionated. Lebowitz’s first two classic books insights on timely issues such as gender, race, of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, gay rights, and the media as well as her own have been collected in the Fran Lebowitz pet peeves—including celebrity culture, tourists Reader. She is also the author of the children’s and strollers. Lebowitz on multiculturalism: book, Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas. “It’s pathetic. Of course the world is diverse. She recently broke a 10-year writer’s block and And the differences always express themselves. is back at work on her novel, Exterior Signs It’s much more important that you emphasize of Wealth. A documentary film about Fran similarities... there is practically nobody willing Lebowitz, Public Speaking, directed by Martin to identify themselves as American anymore Scorsese, premiered on HBO in November because everybody is too busy identifying 2010. themselves with the area of their lives in which they feel the most victimized.” On aging: “At FRANK RICH is Writer-at-Large for New York a certain point, the worst picture taken of you magazine, where he writes essays on politics when you are 25 is better than the best picture and culture as well as engaging in regular taken of you when you’re 45,” and “What dialogues on news of the week for the Daily everyone says when you turn 60 is, ‘It’s better Intelligencer at nymag.com. He is also a than the alternative.’ If the only thing worse creative consultant for HBO, where he helps