359 College Drive
Sarasota
FL 34234
“The Structure of Things: Making Theater on Both Sides of the Atltantic”
with Hermitage Major Theater Award Finalist Sam Steiner
and Hermitage Roundabout Fellow Alex Lin
Presented in partnership with New College of Florida Theater Department
Thursday, November 21 at 1pm
New College of Florida, Robertson Park (entrance at 359 College Drive, Sarasota, FL 34234)
Register here.
Registration is required. $5 per person.
From songs to space journalism, Hermitage Roundabout Fellow Alex Lin is one of the most vibrant voices coming up in the American theater today. The same can be said in the U.K. for playwright and 2024 Hermitage Major Theater Award finalist Sam Steiner, whose acclaimed works like Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons have been performed all over the world, including London’s West End. Meeting for the first time at the Hermitage, these two incredible young artists explore the craft of playwriting, their unique journeys to date, and what’s next on their agendas. Bring a pen or pencil and join this cross-continental master class on the art of telling stories.
Hailing from New Jersey, Alex Lin’s plays have been developed at Second Stage, Roundabout, NYTW, MTC, the O’Neill, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Realm, Central Square Theater, and Theater Mu. Guest lectures: CMU, Rutgers, and Union College. As an actor: Actors Theatre of Louisville (The Wolves), New Victory (In the Land of Mauve & Gold), HVSF (Julius Caesar), Ma-Yi (The House of Billy Paul, Somebody is Looking Back At Me), Jewish Plays Project (Zionista Rising), and Commonwealth Shakespeare (Henry VI Part III, Richard III). Juilliard.
2024 Hermitage Major Theater Award finalist Sam Steiner is a playwright and screenwriter hailing from Manchester, England. His acclaimed plays include Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Walrus Theatre, 2015, Edinburgh Fringe, West End 2023), A Table Tennis Play (Walrus Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, 2019), You Stupid Darkness! (Paines Plough & Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2019 and Southwark Theatre, 2020), and Kanye the First (HighTide, 2017). He also has new commissions with the Almeida Theatre and Francesca Moody. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons has been performed all over the world in over a dozen languages and made its West End debut in January 2023. For film, Sam co-wrote Fingernails (2023, dir. Christos Nikou), starring Jesse Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White, as well as the upcoming Rich Flu (dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrrutia), starring Mary-Elizabeth Winstead and Rafe Spall. His current feature slate includes Morning, which Justin Kurzel will direct; Laura Dern, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Noah Jupe will star with Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch producing. Sam is also working on original horror Banquet and an original feature drama The Endling.