Wednesday, March 23 at 7:00 p.m. - Stern Center Great Room

Mary Cappello ’82, award-winning author; Metzger-Conway Fellow
Autobiography of Illness/Biography of Cure

An illustrated reading that brings together writing about self in the form of "rituals in transfigured time" and writing about the other in the form of lyric biography.  Cappello will discuss her entry into cancer treatment as a patient-writer and her new book on Chevalier Jackson, a Pennsylvania physician-artist, a pioneering laryngologist, and a foreign body specialist. For more information go to The Clarke Forum web site.

Wednesday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m. - Stern Center Great Room

Readings by Ellen McLaughlin
Ellen McLaughlin, playwright and actress
McLaughlin will read excerpts from several of her plays, including Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, Helen, The Persians, Oedipus and Ajax in Iraq. She is most well known for having originated and developed the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, having appeared in every U.S. production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run.