Dee, Goldberg, Perez, Sorvino, Wright, et al. to Participate in Harold Clurman Festival

Melissa Fitzgerald, Winter Miller, John Prendergast, Mira Sorvino, and Jeffrey Wright will participate in the panel discussion, Art and Social Activism: Spotlight on Africa, moderated by Jimmie Briggs, which serves as the opening night event for the Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, hosted by the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, to run October 17-27. The program will begin with readings of two monologues based on experiences in displaced persons camps in Africa, performed by Ruby Dee and Adenike Thomas.

The festival, which has the theme ‘Art and Social Activism’ will include poetry readings, lectures, concerts, panel discussions, and theater and dance performances. Symposiums featuring a number of celebrity guests, will begin and end the festival; both events will take place at Cooper Union’s Great Hall.

The closing night symposium, Art and Educational Justice, will include previously announced panelists Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Phylicia Rashad, Anna Deavere Smith and others, moderated by Leonard Lopate.

Additional festival participants will include Amiri Baraka, Alvin Epstein, Bill T. Jones, and Herbert Kohl.

For a full list of events and participants, visit www.stellaadler.com/festival.html.