Post-Show Guests
with Kevin Baker (interviewer)
April 17, 2023
Ellen Feldman
ELLEN FELDMAN, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Scottsboro, (shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Orange Prize,) Terrible Virtue (optioned for film by Black Bicycle Productions), and Lucy, the story of Franklin Roosevelt’s love affair with Lucy Mercer, who came into the Roosevelt household as Eleanor’s social secretary. Her most recent novel, The Living and the Lost, was published in 2021. Her next, The Trouble With You, will be out in February 2024. She will be giving away three copies of Lucy on the night of April 17th.
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April 20, 2023
Mary Calvi
MARY CALVI is a 14-time New York Emmy award-winning journalist. Her second novel, If A Poem Could Live And Breathe: A Novel Of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love, is based on love letters from the Gilded Age to and from Roosevelt and his first love, Alice Lee. Many of these letters have never been published and were long believed destroyed. Her in-depth research for her debut book, Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love, is the basis of a Smithsonian Channel documentary.
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April 21, 2023
Susan Watson Turner
Susan Watson Turner began her theatre career at the Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. Ben Brantley, New York Times reviewer, referred to her directorial skill 'as elegant choreography' in the play North 17th Street, by Clay Goss. Turner served for several years at the Negro Ensemble Company as general manager and then producing director. She is now a professor in the Theatre Department at Lehman College/CUNY.
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April 24, 2023
Robert Viagas
Robert Viagas was the founding editor of Playbill.com and Theatre.com and has written or edited 19 books on the performing arts, including “On the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line,” “At This Theatre,” “The Back Stage Guide to Broadway,” and the “Playbill Broadway Yearbook” series. He served a three-year term on the Tony Awards Nominating Committee and worked for six years as an on-air personality on what is now SiriusXM satellite radio.
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April 27: 7pm + April 29: 3pm
Timothy Dwyer
Timothy Dwyer was raised on Long Island’s Eaton’s Neck, swimming distance from Theodore Roosevelt’s homestead at Sagamore Hill. He studied history and politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His work has appeared in Time, Washingtonian, and TheAtlantic.com. He is the chief executive officer of The School Choice Group, an education advisory company. He is the co-author of Hissing Cousins: The Lifelong Rivalry Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Alice Roosevelt Longworth with Marc Peyser.
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