Community Conversation After 4/12 Matinee

Join us immediately following the matinee performance on Saturday, March 1 for our Community Conversation with the director, cast, crew, and special guest Robert M. Dowling, PhD. , PhD. The conversation will be moderated by student dramaturgs Marisa Curti and Esther Goldstein. Admission to the Community Conversation is included with your ticket purchase to this performance.

ROBERT M. DOWLING is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem and the biography Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for biography in 2015. Dowling has written and edited several other books on O’Neill, as well as numerous articles on the playwright for such publications as The Irish Times, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Dramatist, The Eugene O’Neill Review, and Irish America. As an authority on American drama, he has been interviewed for articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, among other media venues. He serves on the editorial board of The Eugene O’Neill Review and is an elected Board member of the Eugene O’Neill Society (President of the Society, 2018-2021). Nanjing University Press released a Chinese translation of his biography Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts in 2018, translated by Professor Shiyan Xu of Nanjing Normal University. His co-edited book, Conversations with Sam Shepard, a compendium of interviews with playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard by noted journalists and theater colleagues, was released by the University Press of Mississippi in the fall of 2021. He is currently working on a biography of Sam Shepard for Scribner Publishers.