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Additional authors

1. Zizka, Blanka
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer
11. City University of New York
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Blanka Zizka discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. After growing up in Communist Czechoslovakia and then spending two years in refugee camps in West Germany, Zizka eventually landed in Philadelphia to become the artistic director of The Wilma Theater with her husband Jiri. They developed many groundbreaking productions, including stage adaptations of George Orwell's Animal farm and 1984, the East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard's The invention of love, and works by Athol Fugard, Doug Wright and Dael Orlandersmith. Zizka elaborates on her decision not to become a New York director but to remain in her artistic home of Philadelphia; what she sees as the theatre's relationship to politics; and the things that initially surprised her about American theater.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Women in the theater
2. Theater > Production and direction
3. Television
4. Zizka, Blanka > Interviews
5. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
6. Interviews
7. Women theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
8. Talk shows
9. Off-Broadway theater
10. Wilma Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.)
11. Theater > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2283

Note

1. Credits at end of videodisc.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. On container: Season 5, episode 6.
4. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. in Oct. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 11, 2007.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Blanka Zizka [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2007.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. in Oct. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 11, 2007.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Zizka, Blanka, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2283