Horton Foote to discuss playwrighting during free lecture at Rice Sept. 16

CONTACT: B.J. Almond
PHONE:
(713) 348-6770
EMAIL: balmond@rice.edu

 

HORTON FOOTE TO DISCUSS PLAY WRITING
DURING FREE LECTURE AT RICE
UNIVERSITY SEPT. 16
Friends of Fondren Library invited Foote for
their Distinguished Guest Lecture

Academy Award-winning
playwright Horton Foote will share his thoughts on writing plays and screenplays
during a free public lecture at Rice University Sept. 16.

Invited by the Friends
of Fondren Library for their Distinguished Guest Lecture, Foote will speak at 5
p.m. in Stude Concert Hall at Rice’s Alice Pratt Brown Hall. Reservations are
not needed. Free parking is available in Lot L by Entrance 8 from University
Boulevard and Lot E by Entrance 13 from Rice Boulevard.

Foote’s screenplay of
Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and his original screenplay for “Tender
Mercies” both won Oscars. Foote received the Pulitzer Prize in drama for “The
Young Man from Atlanta” and an Emmy for his dramatization of William Faulkner’s
“The Old Man.” He also has been honored with the U.S. Presidential National
Medal of Arts and the Writers Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award.

Foote has written two
dozen plays that have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway and at many
regional theaters. Houston hosted the world premiere of his most recent play,
“The Carpetbagger’s Children,” this past June in a production that starred Jean
Stapleton.

The Friends of Fondren
Library will host a reception after Foote’s presentation. Foote’s memoir,
“Farewell,” will be available for purchase.

The Friends of Fondren
Library was founded as an association of library supporters interested in
increasing the resources of Rice University’s Fondren Library and making them
better-known. The organization raises funds to purchase rare books, manuscripts
and other materials needed to support teaching and research at Rice.

For more information,
call (713) 348-5157.