Williams Centennial Panel

 panel discussion with Williams artists and scholars Annette Saddik, Jackson Bryer, Jef Hall-Flavin, David Herskovits, and Nick Moschovakis about the legacy of Tennessee Williams. This conversation will provide a critical framework for many of the productions, readings, and events throughout the weekend, including many of Williams' lesser-known treasures and more difficult and obscure works.

Dr. Annette Saddik, an Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York, is the author of The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams’ Later Plays and Contemporary Drama.

Jackson R. Bryer, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the editor of Conversations with Thornton Wilder and The Playwright’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists and the co-editor of Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill, of “The Theatre We Worked For”: The Letters of Eugene O’Neill to Kenneth Macgowan, of The Actor’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers, and of The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators.

Jef Hall-Flavin is the Director of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and a theater director, administrator and educator.

David Herskovits is the Founder and Artistic Director of Target Margin Theater and the director of The Really Big Once.

Nich Moschovakis is a literary scholar and one of two co-editors who prepared the texts of Williams’ Collected Poems and Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays.