One City One Book 2016: Author Carey Perloff in Conversation | SF

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One City One Book 2016: Carey Perloff’s “Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater”

One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is an annual citywide literary event encouraging everyone to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it at events throughout the City.

The 2016 book is Carey Perloff’s Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater, published locally by City Lights Foundation Books. Perloff’s personal and professional journey—her life as a woman in a male-dominated profession, as a wife and mother, a playwright, director, producer, arts advocate, and citizen in a city erupting with enormous change. She offers a behind-the-scenes perspective, including her intimate working experiences with well-known actors, directors, and writers.

Carey Perloff is a playwright and current artistic director of American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco. Perloff writes and lectures regularly about the American theater and about issues in culture and contemporary life that are close to her heart. She and her husband have two children: Alexandra, and Nicholas, best known as the electronic music producer Flaxo.

Thursday, October 6, 2016
One City One Book 2016: Carey Perloff’s “Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater”

The SF Library presents their premier One City One Book event, an engaging and lively conversation with Carey Perloff, the author of Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater, who will talk about the importance of live theater in society and of studying the arts in education.

She will be on stage with Donn Harris, the executive director of Creativity and the Arts for the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Harris, the former executive director of Oakland School for the Arts, and former principal of the acclaimed Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA) has returned to SFUSD to help realize the citywide dream of building out the district’s ArtsCenter in the Civic Center corridor.

Both Perloff and Harris are tremendous and bold visionaries who have built lasting institutions dedicated to the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. And both have a no-holds barred approach to expounding on their passions for the arts and for San Francisco, which is sure to make for an exciting on-stage event.

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