Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for From the Arctic to Broadway and Back: A Conversation with Playwright Carson Kreitzer on Wednesday, April 22, at 5:00 pm, in Reading Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This event is part of the Professional Directions series. Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.
During this conversation, Kreitzer will discuss her work as a playwright, including her ongoing series of plays related to the climate crisis, and bringing her musical, Lempicka, to Broadway. The event will be moderated by PMA Associate Professor Beth F. Milles, and will include a Q&A with students.
In addition, please join us for a reading of excerpts from The Trash Project, a new work in process by playwright Carson Kreitzer, moderated by collaborator Professor Beth F. Milles, on Thursday, April 23, from 12:30–1:30 pm in Room 220, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 21, to pma@cornell.edu.
The Trash Project is inspired by Kreitzer’s time sailing with a group of artists in the Arctic Circle and Greenland, and the desire to do SOMETHING, right now.
Carson Kreitzer is a playwright, lyricist, and librettist. Her musical Lempicka played on Broadway in the spring of 2024, and is now running in Seoul, South Korea, through June. Current projects include her ongoing work centering the climate crisis: green, TIMEBOMB, and works-in-process Svalbard and The Trash Project, inspired by her time sailing with a group of artists in the Arctic Circle and Greenland. Read more about her work.
The Professional Directions series brings industry experts to campus to speak about their career journeys as screenwriters, playwrights, editors, producers, directors, theatre critics, dramaturgs, and more.
Funded in part by Cornell Council for the Arts and The Society for the Humanities.
