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Joan and
George
Hornig
hosted
the
third of
four
Sundance
Institute
Theatre
Club
events
on March
19th: a private
dinner
for 22
guests
at Chez
Josephine
in New
York
with
special
guest
Liesl
Tommy,
director
of the
acclaimed
play Appropriate by
Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins
and
Sundance
Institute
Artist
Trustee.
The
Theatre
Club
features
private
events
showcasing
projects
supported
by the
Institute’s
Theatre
Program
now on
stage in
New
York.
Written
by
playwright
Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins,
winner
of the
2013
Sundance
Theatre
Institute
Tennessee
Williams
Award, Appropriate centers
on the
estranged
members
of the
Lafayette
clan who
have
returned
to
Arkansas
and
their
crumbling
old
plantation
home to
settle
the
accounts
of their
recently
deceased
patriarch.
As they
sort
through
a
lifetime
of
hoarded
mementos
and
junk,
the
discovery
of a
gruesome
relic
and a
surprise
visitor
send the
family
into a
spiral
of
crackling
confrontations,
repressed
histories,
and
regret.
The
fourth
Theatre
Club in
this
season
is When
We Were
Young
and
Unafraid by
Sarah
Treem
and
starring
Cherry
Jones
(June
19,
2014).
All
productions
were
developed
through
the
support
of the
Sundance
Institute
Theatre
Program.
Guest
included
founding
members
of the
Theatre
Club
including
business
and
cultural
leaders
and
philanthropists:
Leslie
A.
Cornfeld,
Margaret
Crotty, Linda
Gelfond,
Joan and
George
Hornig,
Jane and
David
Preiser,
Richard
T. Prins,
and
Connie
Steensma.
Also
present
at
dinner
Appropriate
director
Liesl
Tommy
and
Philip
Himberg,
Artistic
Director
of the
Sundance
Institute
Theatre
Program;
Christopher
Hibma,
Producing
Director
of the
Sundance
Institute
Theatre
Program;
and
guests
Kat Lo,
Alice
Lustig,
Patty
Marx,
Laura
Moore,
Annie
Kauffman,
Judy
Cohen,
Lisa
Schermerhon,
Liz
Welch
and
Clint
Ramos. Contact:
Sundance
Institute
Sarah
Eaton sarah_eaton@sundance.org
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