<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="5" class="">After a two-year hiatus, the University of Waterloo’s Theatre and Performance Silversides Theatre Artist Series returns!</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="5" class="">On Friday, April 1, 2016, join internationally-renowned, award-winning playwright Neil Wechsler (<i class="">Grenadine</i>, <i class="">The Brown Bull of Cúialnge</i>) as he visits Waterloo to discuss future directions of playwriting, dramaturgy, and festival development. Executive Director of Buffalo’s Against the Grain Theatre Festival, Wechsler will offer insight into his company’s innovative approaches to new plays, and will lead an interactive playwriting workshop open to all.</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(13, 17, 31);"><b class="">Neil Wechsler is the Executive Director of Against the Grain Theater Festival in Buffalo, New York. Neil’s play <i class="">Grenadine </i>won the 2008 Yale Drama Award, an international prize for emerging playwrights. Edward Albee was the judge. <i class="">Grenadine </i>was published by Yale University Press and has been produced at Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo, SMU in Texas, and UNC-Chapel Hill. Neil’s adaptation of Ibsen’s <i class="">Emperor and Galilean </i>premiered at Torn Space Theater in Buffalo. It was the American premiere of <i class="">Emperor and Galilean</i>. Neil’s adaptation of Ibsen’s <i class="">The Master Builder</i> premiered at Silo City in Buffalo. Neil’s play <i class="">The Brown Bull of Cuailnge</i> received its world premiere in Toronto, presented by The Room. Neil graduated from Yale University with distinction in Philosophy and Psychology. Neil has spoken about playwriting and literature at high schools and colleges across the United States.</b></span></p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="5" class="">The 2016 Silversides programme features two distinct elements, both free and open to the entire university community. Both events will be held in the Theatre of the Arts, in Modern Languages.</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="5" class="">At 10am, Mr. Wechsler will speak about the Dramalogue Series, an innovative series of drama documentaries </font><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;">which feature behind-the-scenes perspectives on playwrights, actors, and directors working on plays which deserve more attention than they have received. A film crew captures the step-by-step rehearsal process of a table-read. The videos will be released for free online as part of Against the Grain’s Dramalogue series. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;">At 1.30pm, Mr. Wechsler will lead an interactive workshop into </span><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;">how the opening lines of a play set the tone, themes, and rhythm for the entire work. Through the exploration of several play openings, Mr. Wechsler will demonstrate ways in which opening lines reveal the depth and nuance that unfold throughout the plays.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;">Both events are free and open to the entire university community. Please forward this posting to anyone who you feel may be interested. For any further information please contact Toby Malone at <a href="mailto:tmalone@uwaterloo.ca" class="">tmalone@uwaterloo.ca</a>.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="7DA8B3E5-5F35-4897-B20D-5E89DA9E7BF7" height="1848" width="1217" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:F0EDB41E-BA22-4782-9A39-CEC44709C8DF@home" class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">________________________________<br class=""><br class="">Toby Malone, PhD<br class="">Post-Doctoral Fellow and Instructor<br class="">University of Waterloo<br class="">Department of Drama and Speech Communication<br class="">Modern Languages Building, Room 131a<br class="">200 University Avenue West<br class="">Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1<br class=""><a href="mailto:tmalone@uwaterloo.ca" class="">tmalone@uwaterloo.ca</a> <br class=""><br class="">Ph: 416-892-3543 (cell)<br class=""></div></div></div>
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