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How has the department changed since you arrived? Also, prominent playwrights, such as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Lanford Wilson, and so many others have sent us plays that we’ve produced here. That was a unique and special experience.Īnd I’ve loved working with new playwrights, and a lot of the work we do here is with new playwrights. So he chose the UI as the place to do it, and so we were able to do that developmental work here, and that had an impact on how that worked developed, and then it opened on Broadway later that year. This was pre-Broadway they had done one production in Seattle, but they wanted to rework it.

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The Kentucky Cycle (a series of nine one-act plays) which is a massive, two-evening work we did in Summer Repertory was special for me because I was able to work with the playwright, Robert Schenkkan, who was a guest of Summer Rep., as well as a mix of student and professional actors and designers. Some of the biggest productions we did come to mind. What are some highlights from your career at the UI? I have a great love for the tonal complexity of the play, the mix of serious and comedic material. It’s a comedy, but there are serious moments as well. Things change when the other sister comes home with a new boyfriend and decides she wants to sell the house so she can retire from acting, and that sets off the events of the play. They haven’t bothered to get jobs and are living in their childhood home without their parents, who are deceased.

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They’re living comfortably because their other sister is a movie star and has been sending them money. It’s about a middle-aged brother and sister who haven’t done much with their lives. What can you tell us about Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike? Finding a way to bring professional standards to the work that the students are doing is very gratifying, so it’s been a meaningful career. I love finding a way to mix professional actors, designers, and directors with our students. I love working with students and professionals. I tend to get focused on the work in front of me, so I haven’t dwelled on it too much, but I’ve enjoyed this play in many of the same ways I enjoyed the others. So what does it feel like to be directing your last play as a UI faculty member?

10–19 and will be presented at the David Thayer Theatre in the UI Theatre Building.įorsythe sat down with Iowa Now to talk about his final play and his career at the UI. Raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Forsythe received training as a child actor at the Erie Playhouse before earning a BA in theater from Dartmouth and an MFA and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.ĭuring his time at Iowa, Forsythe has directed or acted in more than 100 UI productions, in addition to work outside the university.įorsythe will retire after the 2017 spring semester, and his current play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, will mark his final directorial role as a UI faculty member.

They later relocated to New York City, where his father acted in television, film, and Broadway productions, eventually winning a Tony Award. After 30 years at the University of Iowa, Eric Forsythe is set to retire.įorsythe, a professor of theatre arts, head of the directing program, and artistic director for Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre, arrived at the UI in 1986 and has deep ties to the university his parents, Henderson and Dorothea Forsythe, were both actors who met as undergraduates at the UI in the 1930s.

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