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Playwright's Lab Guest Speaker Bob Moss
Waldron Stage, Mill Mountain Theatre, downtown Roanoke

Moss ran the Edward Albee Playwrights’ Unit from 1970-71. He founded and ran Playwrights Horizons from 1971 to l981. He was the artistic director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York from 1983 to 1996. In the fall of 1996, he became the artistic director of Syracuse Stage, and ran that theatre until January 2008. In the summer of 2008, Moss took the reins of the Hangar again, as they searched for another new artistic director. He ran the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (an affiliate school of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts) for more than 10 years. He has guest directed at theatres across the country. Favorite playwrights include, but not limited to, Michele Lowe, Wendy Wasserstein, Max Posner, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, and the Mssrs: Shakespeare and Shaw. Prior to all this directing and running of theatres, he was an active stage manager, a career that culminated with the APA Repertory Company in residence at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway. Playwright's Lab at Hollins in collaboration with Mill Mountain Theatre offers this guest speakers series. All the talks are free and open to the public, hosted on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, 20 Church Avenue, S.E., downtown Roanoke. (www.millmountain.org).