Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture with Will Arbery

Join us for this year's Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture, featuring a talk by Will Arbery.

Free and open to the public.

This event is a part of the Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture series and the Literature and Spirituality series.The Schwebel Lecture was established in 2008 in memory of former faculty member Lana Schwebel, who died suddenly and tragically in July 2007.

Speaker Statement:

For me, writing characters is a complicated form of prayer. There is a strange shame that comes from creating characters and then causing bad things to happen to them. I will read excerpts from my plays. I will speak openly about the spiritual practice of making worlds and then letting them go. 

Contact: Katya Vetrov

Speaker Bio:

Will Arbery is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays include Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Corsicana, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Plano, Wheelchair, You Hateful Things (upcoming), and Spite House (upcoming). Awards include a WGA Award for Episodic Drama, a Whiting Award, Obie, Lucille Lortel, and New York Drama Critics’ Circle. He’s currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club, Adventureland, and The Metropolitan Opera. He was a writer and producer on Succession and Irma Vep (HBO). His film Sacrifice (dir. Romain Gavras) will be released later this year.