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Apr 07 2024 - May 26 2024

NATIONAL THEATRE DISCUSSION SERIES

Stay after select screenings of National Theatre Live for a short post-show talk with special guest speakers. Learn more about these great shows with insight from local historians, actors, writers, and theater professionals. 

THE MOTIVE AND THE CUE
Sunday, April 7 – 1:00 p.m.

Speakers: Stephen Buhler

NYE
Sunday, May 26 – 1:00 p.m.

Speakers: Julia Schleck

STEPHEN BUHLER

Stephen Buhler is Aaron Douglas Professor of English at UNL. Author of Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof, he has written extensively on cinematic, musical, and theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare and other Early Modern writers. Resident Scholar for Flatwater Shakespeare Company, he directed its 2023 production of The Winter’s Tale. He also directed a staged reading of Jillian Blevins’s Romeo and Her Sister, a play about 19th-century actor Charlotte Cushman, for Angels Theatre Company. He recently appeared in the OmniArts production of Cock by Mike Bartlett, at the Lied Center. His doctorate is from UCLA.

JULIA SCHLECK

Julia Schleck is Vice Chair and Associate Professor of English at UNL. She has published two books, Telling True Tales of Islamic Lands: Forms of Mediation in English Travel Writing, 1575-1630 and Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism. She currently serves as Committee A Chair for the Nebraska chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Her doctorate is from New York University.

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