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Speakers: Yale professors David Connell (Music), Toni Dorfman (Theater), and Jay Winter (History)

Toni Dorfman is on the faculty of the Theater Studies Program at Yale, where she teaches directing, acting, and playwriting. She has also taught at the Spence School, the University of MIssouri--Kansas City, Columbia (from which she holds an MFA), and Ohio University, where she was director of the School of Theater 1993-98. She was a cofounder of The Shade Company, a repertory theater Off Off Broadway, in her twenties. She has directed in New York, Cleveland, Dallas, and Williamstown. In spring 2000 she directed Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT at Yale, a production that became part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas that summer. Her play FAMILY WOLF, commissioned by the Soho Theatre in London, was read at the Soho in July 2001. She will be directing Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA at Yale in 2003.

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