Guest Artist Series
Anne Bogart
Director, Educator, Founder & Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company
In Conversation with Gian-Murray Gianino
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 – 7:00pm
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio
Acclaimed director, educator, and founder and co-artistic director of SITI Company, Anne Bogart, joins actor and teacher Gian-Murray Gianino and members of The Actors Center’s Resident Company on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 7:00pm for an intimate evening of conversation about her life and influences, her three decades leading SITI Company, exploring her creative process and training philosophy, and the unique relationship between actor and director.
The conversation will be followed by discussion and Q&A and will take place at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, in the Jefferson Studio on the 2nd floor. The event is free and open to the public by advance reservation.
Anne is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. She was one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. The venerable company, which lasted for three decades, had its final performance in 2022.
Anne is the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Skidmore College, Bard College, and Cornish College. She was a recipient of a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, the Richard B. Fisher Award, a USA Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the recipient of the 2023 Gordon Davidson Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and the 2016 Alfred Drake Award from Brooklyn College.
She is also the author of six books: A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then, You Act; Conversations with Anne; and What’s the Story, and most recently The Art of Resonance.
Her works with SITI Company include Radio Christmas Carol, Falling & Loving, The Bacchae, Chess Match, The Theater is a Blank Page, Steel Hammer, Persians, A Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women, American Document, Antigone, Freshwater, Under Construction, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, The Radio Play, Alice’s Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Miss Julie, and Orestes. Her operas include The Handmaid’s Tale, Handel’s Alcina, Dvorak’s Dimitrij, Verdi’s Macbeth, Bellini’s Norma and Bizet’s Carmen.
Hosting Anne in conversation is Gian-Murray Gianino, an actor and member of The Actors Center’s Resident Company. As a member of SITI Company, Gian-Murray helped create and performed in productions of The Bacchae, Steel Hammer, Trojan Women (AfterEuripides), bobrauschenbergamerica, theatre is a blank page, Hanjo, Persians, Café Variations, Radio Macbeth, systems/layers, and Freshwater. His New York credits include work at BAM, Second Stage, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, Japan Society, WP Theater, SoHo Rep, and HERE Arts.
He has performed regionally and internationally including at Yale Rep, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival), Berkshire Theatre Festival, Arts and Ideas Festival, SUNY Purchase, Penguin Rep, Getty Villa (LA), The Court (Chicago), Krannert Center, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center, MC93 Bobigny (Paris, France), Bonn Biennale (Bonn, Germany), Dublin Theatre Festival (Dublin, Ireland), GIFT Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia), NYUAD (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and the Theatre Olympics (Toga-mura, Japan). FILM: The 190, Inside Me, Hospitality, Dead Canaries; TV: The Affair, Limitless, White Collar, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Organized Crime, All My Children. B.A. Wesleyan University. ATL Apprentice. He has been a guest artist and faculty member at NYU, The New School, SUNY Purchase, Skidmore, and Bennington. Current faculty member at Maggie Flannigan Studio.