Dr. Jutka Devenyi, ELTE alumna will give a lecture on
POLITICAL THEATER IN THE US TODAY
in the framework of the "Adaptations and Adoptations: Drama and the Living Theatre" class,
at the ELTE MUK campus, Building D, Big Lecture Hall ("Nagyelőadó")
on the 17th of September, Thursday, between 2 and 3:30 p.m.
The lecture is open to the public.
Jutka Devenyi taught at Cornell University, the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the Academic Head of the Actors Studio Drama School, MFA at the New School University in New York City for over ten years and the Co-Director of the Drama Programme of the University of Auckland for two. She completed her MA in English and Hungarian Literature and Linguistics at the ELTE Budapest, and received her PhD degree in Dramatic Arts at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
Miss Devenyi published a book Metonymy and Drama: Essays on Language and Dramatic Strategy (Bucknell UP) as well as articles appearing in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Real Deal and The Hungarian Review. She directed and designed several contemporary European and American plays, presented in Santa Barbara and at Cornell University in French and in English.
Jutka regularly runs a political and scienctific performance cabaret for and with students wherever she teaches also taught improvisational exercises to disabled homeless women at the UN International Center in New York City, and worked with the LAPD (Los Angeles Poverty Department), a community based art program designed to create theater for and with the homeless of Skid Row. Her current research focuses on Contemporary US political theater and the relationship of theater and science.
ALL WELCOME!
