BENEDICTUS Audience Enrichment 

Theater J offers a variety of programs to engage our audience beyond the stage.  Below is the current schedule of Artistic Director Roundtables, Peace Cafes and Cast Talk Backs.  You can learn more about these programs by clicking here.  We can also develop additional programs tailored for your group to be held either here at the theater or we can bring the program to you. 

Contact Shirley Serotsky at (202) 777-3228 or email her with any further questions.

THESE ARE FREE DISCUSSIONS AND OPEN TO ALL

Sunday March 15, 2009 at 4:30pm: An Iran-Israel-US Collaboration

• Oren Anolik, Political Counselor at the Israeli Embassy
• David Killion, Senior Professional Staff, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street

Thursday March 19, 2009 at 9:00 pm – Peace Café with the cast

Sunday March 22, 2009 at 4:15 pm -  An Iranian Revolution: Then and Now

• John Limbert, current Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy former hostage in Iran
• Rahaleh Nassri, Director of BENEDICTUS

Monday March 23, 2009 at 9:00 pm - From Waziristan to Washington Discussion

Thursday March 26, 2009 at 4:15 pm – Peace Café

Saturday March 28, 2009 at 9:30 pm – PANEL WITH THE CREATORS OF BENEDICTUS

• Motti Lerner, Playwright/Co-Creator of BENEDICTUS
• Dr. Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Co-Creator of BENEDICTUS, Professor of Theatre, Creative Arts Department at Siena College
• Ari Roth, Artistic Director

Sunday March 29, 2009 at 4:15 pm: An Iran-Israel-US Collaboration 

• Mohsen Sazegara, Iranian Journalist and Political Activist
• Dr. Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Co-Creator, Professor of Theatre, Creative Arts Department at Siena College
• Karim Sadjadpour, leading researcher on Iran and an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace