The Art of Memory: A Performance of Poetry and Prose from the Bellevue Literary Review

From Marcel Proust to Oliver Sacks, memory has been both a muse and a source of endless literary and scientific inquiry. The Bellevue Literary Review‘s new issue —”Reconstructions: The Art of Memory”— turns a literary lens to the relentlessly precarious process that is memory.  Join us on October 19th at 6pm as the poetry and prose from this issue is brought to life through performances by actors from stage and screen.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 6pm
NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 First Avenue (30th-33rd Streets), NYC
Alumni Hall B Auditorium

Free and open to the public
More information: [email protected] | 212-263-3973 | www.BLReview.org

Featuring performances by:

LILY BALSEN tours nationally in a solo adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees, staged by master director Wynn Handman. NYC theatre credits include plays at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Atlantic Stage 2/Potomac Theatre Project, and HERE Arts Center. Regional credits include Barrington Stage (MA), Theatre J (Washington, D.C.), Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), Olney Theatre (MD) and Walking the Dog Theatre (NY). She has also recorded audio narration for children’s books, and enjoys writing and performing original sketch comedy. She attended Middlebury College. www.lilybalsen.com

RUSSELL G. JONES is an Auldeco, Obie and SAG Award winning actor. Recently he has originated roles in theater, Fernanda Coppel’s King Liz (Second Stage Uptown), Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1,2 & 3 (The Public/Mark Taper Forum) and Tanya Barfield’s The Call (Playwrights Horizons). Television: Godless, The Americans, Person of Interest, Louie, The Blacklist, The Knick and Films: Touched With Fire, The Ticket, Pinch, Side Effects. He has worked as a facilitator, moderator and teaching artist for two decades and is the creator of BLIND SPOT a multiplatform campaign that facilitates cross cultural dialogue and critical thinking so more of us can recognize and resist internalized and systemic white supremacy. www.russellgjones.com