Film Screening and Discussion: A Gathering of Strangers: The Making of ‘The Merchant in Venice’

Join us for a screening of this documentary film on the first production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in the Jewish ghetto.

A panel discussion will follow the screening of the film, featuring:

• Ted Hardin, Columbia College Chicago
• Elizabeth Coffman, Loyola University Chicago
• Karin Coonrod, director, The Merchant of Venice; artistic director, Copagnia de’ Colombari; lecturer, David Geffen School of Drama, Yale University
• Linda Powell, actor, The Merchant of Venice
• David Scott Kastan, Yale University
• Sara Lipton, State University of New York at Stony Brook