About this Event
Join us to celebrate Gwendolyn Alker’s forthcoming biography on María Irene Fornés and a discussion of the ways it challenges the conventions of biography. Fornés and Her Friends: The Making of La Maestra of the American Theatre will be the first biography of this enigmatic and influential figure. Named for the playwright’s best-known play, the book tells her story through the lives of eight women whom Irene loved, and who loved her in return.
Part pre-release book party, part philosophical play, this conversation between Alker and Fred Moten will consider what it means to write a life history of Fornés and other pre-Stonewall figures. A rethinking of the nature of biography—identity and archive, storytelling and fact—will no doubt ensue.
Speakers
Gwendolyn Alker teaches in the Department of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts. She has been teaching, advocating, and writing about Irene Fornés for over twenty years.
Fred Moten teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.
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Event venue & nearby stays
Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | Richard A. Chase North Reading Room and Event Space, 70 Washington Square South, New York, United States
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