{"id":41627,"date":"2012-10-07T01:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T05:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=41627"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:33:28","slug":"tony-award-winner-to-speak-at-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/tony-award-winner-to-speak-at-ucf\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Award Winner to Speak at UCF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Paulus, a Tony Award winner and artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, will present a lecture about arts and humanities education Monday, Oct. 8, at the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Paulus, a theater and opera director who also is a Harvard professor, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Morgridge International Reading Center on the main UCF campus.<\/p>\n<p>Her credits include the Tony Award-winning revival of <em>Hair<\/em> and <em>The Gershwins\u2019 Porgy and Bess.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other recent works are <em>Prometheus Bound<\/em>, a musical written by Tony and Grammy Award winner Steven Sater with music composed by Grammy Award-winning System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian; <em>Death and The Powers: The Robots\u2019 Opera<\/em> by Tod Machover, in collaboration with MIT Media Lab and Chicago Opera Theater; and <em>The Donkey Show,<\/em> a disco adaptation of <em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her eclectic mix of productions have been performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in London\u2019s West End, Cirque du Soleil,\u00a0 New York\u2019s Hayden Planetarium, and numerous other theaters and opera houses.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. 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