February Conference Call on Theatre
February 17th, 2010
Wedgwood Circle Conference Call featuring Karen Goodwin and Max McLean: Promoting the Good, True and Beautiful through Theatre
Listen to the audio recording HERE.
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In 2010, Wedgwood Circle will look to renowned literary discussion group, The Inklings, for wisdom on the value of narrative in communicating a message that is good, true and beautiful for the common good. As we theme our year around selected writings from the group of talented thinkers including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, we would like to invite you to listen to our first conference call in 2010 with Sector Liaison, Karen Goodwin, and Uncle Screwtape, himself, from the soldout performances of The Screwtape Letters, Max McLean.
Join the Wedgwood Circle Staff including, Mark Rodgers and Steve Garber, with featured guests Karen Goodwin (President, Fifth Avenue Entertainment) and Max McLean (President, Fellowship for the Performing Arts) as we discuss the current cultural climate within the sector of theatre and how we can strategically invest in theatrical art.
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Karen Goodwin established Fifth Avenue Entertainment to develop, finance and produce plays, musicals, screenplays and teleplays for domestic and international markets. Broadway partnerships in which Ms. Goodwin served as fundraiser, associate producer, co-producer or producer include: the first run and/or touring companies of and Australian productions of: All’s Well That Ends; Les Miserables; The Phantom of the Opera; Into the Wood; The Gospel at Colonus; Follies; Miss Saigon; Children of Eden; Annie Warbucks; Sunset Boulevard; Oliver; Martin Guerre; Swan Lake. She served as Executive Producer of the film, End of Summer, for Showtime Productions. She coproduced the new Off-Broadway musical THE ARK in the 2005-06 season; the cast album and animated film adaptation are forthcoming. Projects in development include Erik Orton’s new musical Berlin, a family saga set during the WWII Berlin Airlift; a film and stage musical based upon the first all-female radio station, WHER; and the national tour and Broadway premiere of Stephen Schwartz’ Children of Eden.
Max McLean is the Founder and Artistic Director of Fellowship for the Performing Arts; narrator of the Listener’s Bible and The Classics of the Christian Faith; and speaker on the radio program Listen to the Bible, that airs daily on nearly 700 radio affiliates worldwide. But he is best known for his dramatic performances of Mark’s Gospel which received the prestigious 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for excellence in Chicago theatre. Max McLean was named Solo performance artist of the year; Genesis that ran Off-Broadway for several months; And the title role in the stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters that is currently on National Tour and will next open at the Westside Theatre in New York City in April 2010; He is also the author of the newly released book, Unleashing The Word, Rediscovering the Public Reading of Scripture, published by Zondervan.
Steve Garber is the Director of The Washington Institute in Falls Church, Virginia. Steve has a classroom among many people in many places-wherever he is and whatever he is doing, always wanting to understand more fully the integral character of faith to vocation to culture. Author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior (Second Ed., 2007), he writes frequently for Comment, and in addition was a contributor to the volumes Faith Goes to Work: Reflections From the Marketplace, and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue, as well as to the Mars Hill Audio journal, “Tacit Knowing, Truthful Knowing: The Life and Work of Michael Polanyi.” For many years, he taught on Capitol Hill in the American Studies Program, and is particularly interested in the relationship of popular culture to political culture; from that appointment he became the Scholar-in-Residence for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. He serves as a board member for Ransom Fellowship, the Blood:Water Mission, and the Kairos Project, and as a consultant for the Wedgwood Circle and The Murdock Trust.