Fall Lecture: Samantha Bello, Choosing Plays for a Theater Season

Samantha Bello, Choosing Plays for a Theater Season
October 4
1:30–2:30 PM
In-Person at OLLI

Samantha Bello is the Senior Director of Learning for Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. She has directed Will on the Hill 2020-2023 with a cast that includes members of Congress, created/adapted A Mini-Summer Night’s Dream and A Tiny Tempest, and directed staged readings in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences of Legacy of Light, Ada and the Engine, The Ruby Sunrise, A Number, Proof, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Arcadia, R.U.R, and Miss Evers’ Boys. Regional directing work includes Arizona Theatre Company: Wit, Proof, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, I Am My Own Wife, Tuesdays with Morrie, and The Lady with All the Answers; Kansas City Repertory Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird; and Arizona Repertory Theatre: Three Sisters, Angels in America, Arcadia, Company, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She has taught at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Brescia University, University of Missouri, Arizona State University, and University of Arizona. She received her MFA in acting/directing at the University of Missouri and is a member of SDC.

Reservations are required to attend in-person lectures. In-person lectures will be held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in Room A on the First Floor. Registration for the above lecture will open here at 10:00 AM on the Friday prior to the lecture. The direct registration link will also be included in the Friday newsletter the week prior. You must have an OLLI account to register. If you do not have one, you can create an account when going to register. Each registrant may reserve up to two seats. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat.