About this Event
Please join us in the Skylight Room for a very special event with Coffee House's very own, Gerit Quealy, who will be presenting her, Shakespeare Therapy: Mouthing Off. As always, the conversation and conviviality will continue over dinner downstairs after the program.
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Shakespeare Therapy: Mouthing Off
Speaking the speech for good or ill, an antidote to trolls, troglodytes, and mean Tweets.
Our vocabulary is filled with vitriol & invective these days. It's reflexive & corrosive. Is it possible, at this juncture, to change the course of the riverbed with Shakespeare as our navigator? A social experiment in finding a way forward with kindness & courtesy.
Come prepared to Play!
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Gerit Quealy is a NYC-based journalist, author, and speaker. She first fell in love with Shakespeare watching a production of Twelfth Night in 3rd grade and has been fascinated with all aspects ever since. She went on to become an actor in TV and film, making Shakespeare a part of her repertoire, appearing in Romeo & Juliet at Chicago’s Goodman Theater understudying Phoebe Cates, then in New York opposite Robert Sean Leonard. As a journalist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, NBC, Biography, Woman’s Day, Country Living, and a raft of garden magazines. She became interested in the historical aspects of Shakespeare’s world, and has spent thirty years studying to become a proficient paleographer and researcher in Early Modern English Renaissance manuscripts and history.
She has been a visiting lecturer and workshop leader at various institutions including Columbia, Williams College, and SUNY-Albany & this March was her 10th year teaching 2 journalism classes at the Columbia spring symposium. This is also her 10th year as a judge for the Society of Professional Journalists awards. Her discovery of a holograph letter by Philip Herbert, one of the "incomparable paire of brethren" to whom the First Folio is dedicated, appeared in the Sidney Journal, and she has published other scholarly articles on Lady Penelope Rich, discovered a new source for Twelfth Night, corrected a misattributed Ben Jonson poem, and taught at the 92Y Roundtable on Shakespeare's Botanical Bounty, with another forthcoming seminar on Queen Elizabeth I as proto-environmentalist leader.
Along with Japanese artist Sumié Hasegawa, she is the author of Botanical Shakespeare (HarperCollins).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Avenue, New York, United States
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