Date/Time
Sunday 11/21/2021
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Categories
HYBRID EVENT
(both via Zoom and in person)
Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 4:30 PM – PST
Travels with Dante / Journeys to Love. With actor Anthony Newfield
We are proud to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death with a talk by Anthony Newfield.
A student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1970s, actor/writer Anthony Newfield spent his junior year in Italy at the University of Padua. While there he attended a year-long class on Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy. Forty-nine years later, with the world seemingly spinning out of control around him and finding himself “in a dark wood,” he felt called to Dante and picked up the poem again.
Cost of the Event:
Free Members
$15 Non-Members
Masks and proof of vaccination required at the Museo.
BIO:
Anthony Newfield is an actor, director, and book editor. Originally from the Bay Area, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (PBK), with a degree in Romance Languages. He studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and received his MFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with the Moscow Arts Theatre. He spent six months in Russia, studying and playing Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath. His article about his time in Russia, “After the Orchard,” was published in American Theatre magazine. Newfield’s Broadway credits: 1984, The Father, The Winslow Boy, The Columnist, The Royal Family, Waiting for Godot, Tartuffe. Off-Broadway credits: Ivanov (with Ethan Hawke and Joely Richardson), Susan and God, The Bad Infinity, Lady Windermere’s Fan, etc. Regional theatre credits: Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, An Enemy of the People, A Woman of No Importance, Orson’s Shadow, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Arcadia, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Bent (Carbonell Award, Best Supporting Actor), etc. Theatres around the country where he’s worked include Yale Rep; the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C.; the Huntington (Boston); the Alliance (Atlanta); the Coconut Grove (Miami); TheatreWorks (Palo Alto); etc. Invited to perform in Ireland, he played Ned Weeks in the Irish premiere of The Normal Heart in Dublin and on its Irish National Tour. He later played T. S. Eliot in Tom and Viv for the Rough Magic Theatre Company and appeared in Patrick Mason’s production of Peer Gynt for the Gate Theatre, both in Dublin. Television appearances include guest starring roles on Diagnosis Murder, All My Children, One Life to Live, etc.; film work includes I Melt with You (with Rob Lowe and Jeremy Piven), Diminished Chords, Miss Bertram’s Awakening, etc. He is artistic director of Poetry for Peace and the House of the Redeemer’s I Fabbristi, for whom he has adapted and presented The Iliad, Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and twenty-five years of Christmas events. He has been a regular participant at the Steinbeck Institute in Monterey, California, and at the annual Steinbeck Festival at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California.
Bookings
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