Lady Romeo: Charlotte Cushman's Gender-bending American Shakespeare

When:
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020 12:00p -
1:00p

Where:
Online event
Online Only, Zoom Webinar
Cambridge, MA

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, History, LGBT, Lectures & Conferences, Performing Arts, University, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
https://library.harvard.edu/events/lady-romeo

Tana Wojczuk joins Houghton Library for a lunch talk about her debut biography Lady Romeo: The Radical, Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity (Simon & Schuster, 2020). Wojczuk will highlight materials from the Harvard Theatre Collection while exploring the remarkable life and cultural impact of the queer, 19th-century Shakespearean actress.


Tana is a senior nonfiction editor at Guernica magazine and teaches writing at New York University. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University where she formerly taught. Originally from Boulder, Colorado, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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