Conversation with Playwright Max Posner In-Person
Heideman Award recipient, former Page 73 Fellow, and 2024-2025 Sun Valley Playwright's Residency Resident Playwright Max Posner will be in conversation with Aly Wepplo, The Community Library’s Collection Manager, to discuss his process of writing for stage and screen before taking questions from the audience.
This conversation is hosted in anticipation of a reading of Posner's play The Treasurer, which will be held at The Argyros on Monday, October 7.
The program will be livestreamed and available to view later. Click here to watch online.
In partnership with the Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency (SVPR), a non-profit organization that fosters new relationships between theatremakers and Idaho’s Wood River Valley community and fuels the American theatre with invigorating new plays.
- Date:
- Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 6:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
- Campus:
- The Community Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Lectures & Conversations
Max Posner is a celebrated playwright whose upsetting comedies of family life have pushed buttons off Broadway and across the United States. His play THE TREASURER premiered at Playwrights Horizons in a critically-acclaimed, sold-out production directed by David Cromer starring Peter Friedman & Deanna Dunagan (NYT & TimeOut Critic's Pick; "highbrow brilliant" in Vulture; Lortel Nominee for Best Play; printed in American Theater Magazine). Earlier plays include JUDY (Page 73 directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, TimeOut Critic’s Pick); SISTERS ON THE GROUND (NYU directed by Ken Rus Schmoll) and SNORE (Juilliard directed by Knud Adams) - both ensemble plays regularly performed in acting programs. His plays are published & licensed by Dramatists Play Service.
For film, Max is adapting Percival Everett’s novel So Much Blue for the screen with director Rashid Johnson. For TV, Max wrote for John Early’s episode of The Characters (Netflix) and with Early he is developing a drama about a jealous millennial hurtling towards a spiritual crisis in the Hudson Valley.
He is a Sundance Institute Fellow; winner of the Helen Merrill Emerging Award, Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship (x3), Le Compte du Nuoy Awards from Lincoln Center (x2), Heideman Award, Edgerton Foundation New Play Award as well as commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Williamstown, Lincoln Center, Clubbed Thumb, The New York State Council for The Arts and the Duke/Mellon Foundation.
Born and raised in Denver, Colorado Max went to undergrad at Brown University (Weston Award in Playwriting) where he studied with Paula Vogel. After moving to New York, he did a two-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship at Juilliard where he studied with Christopher Durang and Marsha Norman. Plays in development: HANUKKAH SPECTACULAR (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor directed by Cromer, starring Kate Berlant; upcoming Sun Valley Playwright's Residency) and THE POOL directed by Sarah Benson. Max lives in Brooklyn.
