M On the Move st Educating Women Leaders for theW 21 Century Fall 2005 R Special EditionC THE STAGE IS SET A legendary dance company. An internationally renowned painter. Acclaimed fi lm and music industry producers, directors, and performing artists. All will be discussing their work and current issues in the arts during R-MWC’s Bickford Arts Symposium, to be held on campus November 3-5. behind the scenes in music Musician William berlind Opens Bickford Symposium Thursday afternoon William Berlind is a versatile musician, songwriter, record producer, and recording artist. A 1995 graduate of Princeton University, Berlind has played the piano for 25 years, with par- ticular expertise in gospel, jazz, R ‘n’ B, and stride. He served as musical director of the award-winning Princeton University Gospel Ensemble choir; was a singer, pianist, and conductor for the group; and wrote vocal and instrumental arrangements for it. He also was the musical director and pianist for a production of Porgy and Bess at the Stadt Opera House in Heidelberg, Germany. TopTop to bottom: TheThe stagestage is set. Smith HallHall Theatre,Theatre, thethe During the past eight years, he has been a songwriter and keyboardist for The Occasions, a Wimberly Recital Hall,Hall, andand thethe MaierMaier MuseumMuseum ofof Art will be thethe majormajor venuesvenues forfor thethe BickfordBickford Arts Symposium. New York R ‘n’ B band, and a staff writer and music critic for The NewYork Times andand The NewYork Observer, where he wrote feature and investigative articles on music, sports, and business. The Bickford Arts Symposium is funded by Brook and Roger Berlind, Jewelle Wooten Berlind has studied audio engineering and record production at the Institute of Audio Bickford ’63 and Nathaniel J. Bickford, The Susan Research in New York and is now an intern at the New York studios of The Magic Shop/Trout H. Dabney Fund, The C. William Gibson, Jr. Recording. Memorial Lecture Fund, The Kennedy-Fitzgerald Visiting Professor Fund, The Carl H. and Frances M. McHenry Visiting Lecturers and Artists Fund, While on campus, Berlind is expected to cut a special recording in conjunction with the and The Philip Thayer Lecture Fund. symposium. NOVEMBER 3 thursday DEL TORO BICKFORD DRIVER LINDSTROM behind the scenes in film: BENICIO LAURA SARA PIA Benicio Laura Bickford Laura Bickford,Bickford, one of the fi lm industry’sindustry’s leading prproduc-oduc- Del Toro ers,ers, wonwon an AcademyAcademy AwardAward nominationnomination for her fi lm Traffi c. “He’s“He’s likelike an acting Named to moremore than 200 TopTop TenTen lists for the yearyear 2000, animal, this guy who Traffi c also earnedearned four OscarOscarss and numernumerousous other aawards,wards, comes out of the forestforest to including Golden Globe honors.honors. The fi lm waswas directeddirected byby makemake moviesmovies better.better. He’sHe’s StevenSteven Soderbergh and starredstarred MichaelMichael Douglas, Benicio fearless, and he has a veryvery Del Toro, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. distinctivedistinctive imaginationimagination for ccharacter.”haracter.” WithWith partnerpartner Bill Pohlad,Pohlad, BickfordBickford nownow heads RiverRiver Road Del Toro Entertainment,Entertainment, whichwhich has a fi rst-look,rst-look, co-fi nancing So sasaysys actor and dirdirectorector arrangementarrangement with Focus/UniversalFocus/Universal StudiosStudios.. RiverRiver Road Sean PennPenn of Benicio Del Toro,Toro, who waswas nominatednominated co-fi nanced Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain and is nownow for an AcademyAcademy AwardAward for his portrayalportrayal of the brood-brood- in production on Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane ing Mexican police detectivdetectivee in Traffi c. Arbus, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr. In December, production will Del Toro,Toro, who has wonwon numerousnumerous acting awardsawards and begin on Che, which will be directed by Steven awardaward nominations,nominations, has made almost 30 moviesmovies and Soderbergh and will star Benicio Del Toro. has performedperformed in a varietyvariety of rrolesoles on stage and teletelevi-vi- sion. After a liberal artsarts educationeducation atat Sarah LawrenceLawrence College (where(where she also studied fi lmmaking), BickfordBickford became a A nativenative of PuertoPuerto Rico,Rico, his fi rstrst professionalprofessional job waswas productionproduction manager for political commercials in her nativenative as a guest star on Miami ViceVice. He has since been in suchsuch NewNew YorkYork City.City. She then movedmoved to London for fi veve years,years, fi lms as 21 Grams, The Hunted, Basquiat, Fear & Loathing wherewhere she producedproduced musicmusic videos and developeddeveloped featurefeature in Las Vegas, and China Moon. He will also star in To Have fi lms for Luc Roeg and Jeremy Thomas’ Vivid Productions. and Have Not, a new adaptation of the Hemingway classic, tentatively scheduled for release this year. Returning to the United States, she settled in Los Angeles and partnered with writer/director Matthew Chapman at Del Toro majored in acting at the University of Cali- his Hollywood Pictures-based Asylum Films. fornia at San Diego and also studied at Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York. He won a scholar- Bickford made her debut as a producer in 1995 with ship to The Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, where Citizen X for HBO Pictures. Citizen X received a Cable Ace he studied for several years. Award for Best Picture and earned multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.nominations. (For(For his performanceperformance in the “Benicio has a wonderful mind,” says Ed Harris, his fi lm, Donald Sutherland wonwon both China Moon co-star. “It’s a little like fi recrackers going EmmyEmmy and Golden Globe awards.)awards.) off; he’s got these great ideas that just explode.” After Citizen X, BickfordBickford producedproduced Play- Christopher McQuarrie, who directed him in The Way ing God with Beacon Pictures. DirectedDirected byby of the Gun, says: “More than any other actor I’ve ever AndyAndy WilsonWilson and starringstarring DavidDavid Duchovny,Duchovny, met, Benicio is not in pursuit of fame or recognition. I TimothyTimothy Hutton, and Angelina Jolie,Jolie, the think he’s a guy who has a great disdain for popularity. fi lm waswas releasedreleased byby TouchstoneTouchstone PicturesPictures in He’s very resistant to playing a leading man. He would 1997. rather create a character.” BickfordBickford is the daughter of R-MWC 2 TrusteeTrustee JewelleJewelle WootenWooten BickfordBickford ’63. Bickford NOVEMBER 3 thursday DEL TORO BICKFORD DRIVER LINDSTROM behind the scenes in film: BENICIO LAURA SARA PIA Sara Driver Pia Lindstrom Producer,Producer, director,director, and actressactress Sara DriverDriver Pia Lindstrom has been prominent in television broad- ’77, one of R-MWC’sR-MWC’s own,own, has numerousnumerous casting for more than 25 years as a news correspondent, fi lms to her credit.credit. writer, director, and producer. She has also been a theatre and movie critic. Raised in WestfiWestfi eld, NewNew Jersey,Jersey, she began her careercareer in 1980, servingserving as productionproduction Her many awards include two Emmys and the Associated manager and assistant directordirector to Jim Jar-Jar- Press Broadcaster’s Award. muschmusch for the independent fi lm PermanentPermanent Vacation. Lindstrom began her career in San Francisco after gradu- ating from Mills College. She then became a CBS news In 1982, she directeddirected a shortshort fi lm, correspondent in New York and later joined NBC, where YouYou AreAre Not I, followed by she held a variety of positions, from news anchor to arts StrangerStranger Than ParadiseParadise editor. She has also written and directed a documentary on in 1984, which she co- cultural life in Morocco for PBS. producedproduced (and where she Driver made a cameo appearance). In 1986, She nownow appearsappears on the AmerAmeri-i- DriverDriver directed,directed, produced,produced, and wrotewrote the screen-screen- can Theatre Wing’s WorkingWorking in the play for Sleepwalk/YearSleepwalk/Year of the DogDog and acted as Theatre Seminars. She has completed productionproduction troubleshootertroubleshooter on Jarmusch’sJarmusch’s fi lm Down a televisiontelevision seriesseries for the NewNew YorkYork by Law. PublicPublic LibraryLibrary atat Lincoln Center on careerscareers in the theatretheatre and has par- She made a cameo appearance as an airportairport clerk in ticipatedticipated in the League of AmericanAmerican 1989 in Mystery TrainTrain, another JarmuschJarmusch fi lm, and the Theatre Producers ConversationsConversations with same year appeared in Howard Brookner’s Bloodhounds Broadway Legends. of Broadway. For Night on Earth in 1991, she served as the dailies troubleshooter for Jarmusch and in 1993 directed LindstromLindstrom is a trusteetrustee of the the independent feature fi lm When Pigs Fly, which starred Theatre Development Marianne Faithful. Fund, the largest arts service organization Sleepwalk, perhaps her best-known fi lm, was presented in the country, and Lindstrom at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986. It tells the story of a she is involvedinvolved with ArtsArts young woman whose life is turned upside down when she Horizons,Horizons, whichwhich providesprovides artsarts educa- attemptsattempts the translationtranslation of an old Chinese manuscript.manuscript. The tion to publicpublic schools.schools. She is a member of the fi lm waswas also enteredentered into competition atat the 1987 U.S.U.S. InternationalInternational Committee