|
Award-winning playwright and author Larry Kramer will give a talk and sign copies of his new book, The American People, October 28, 2015
VASSAR
October 1, 2015 - Award-winning playwright and author Larry Kramer will speak at
Vassar College on Wednesday, October 28, 5:30pm, in the Martel Theater of the Vogelstein Center
for Drama and Film. “An Evening with Larry Kramer” will feature a talk by the author, a period
of questions-and answers with the audience, and a book signing. This event is free and
open to the public.
Kramer wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and
rose to further prominence with his bestselling novel, Faggots. His groundbreaking play about the
AIDS crisis, The Normal Heart , won the 2011 Tony Award for best revival of a play.
Additionally, the HBO adaptation of the play won the Emmy Award for outstanding
television movie in 2014. Among his numerous honors, Kramer was named a
Master American Dramatist by the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.
In addition to being acclaimed for his writing, Kramer is also a celebrated public health and gay
rights advocate. A pioneering AIDS activist, he co founded the Gay Men's Health Crisis in 1982
and founded ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in 1987.
His most recent work is the satiric novel, The American People: Volume 1, Search for My Heart, which
was published this year. The book is a fictionalized history featuring, among other things, a religious
sect conspiring with eugenicists, McCarthyites, and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals.
The Washington Post called The American People , “Immense, sprawling, subversive . . . A protracted
display of pyrotechnic virtuosity.” Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the
talk and Kramer will sign books.
This event is sponsored by the Drama Department, Campus Life LGBTQ Center, the Program in American
Studies, the Office of Health Education and the Office of the President.
Vassar College strives to make its events, performances, and facilities accessible to all. Individuals
with disabilities requiring special accommodations must contact the Box Office at least 48 hours
in advance of an event, Mondays-Fridays, at (845) 437-5599. Without sufficient notice,
appropriate space/and or assistance may not be available. For detailed information
about accessibility to specific campus facilities, search for “campus
accessibility information” on the Vassar
homepage ( http://www.vassar.edu ).
Directions to the Vassar campus, located at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie, NY, are available at www.vassar.edu/directions .
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.
Posted by Office of Communications Thursday, September 24, 2015
Press Contact
Jeff Kosmacher
Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs
(845) 437-7404
jekosmacher@vassar.edu
Source: http://collegerelations.vassar.edu/releases/releases/2015-2016/151028-larry-kramer.html
"Reproduced with permission - Vassar College"
Vassar College
For more HIV and AIDS News visit...
Positively Positive - Living with HIV/AIDS:
HIV/AIDS News
|
