Actor/alumnus delivers Mack lecture
Tony Award–winning actor and Yale School of Drama alumnus Liev Schreiber ’92MFA returned to Yale in January to give the Elizabethan Club’s 20th annual Maynard Mack Lecture. The event, moderated by James Bundy ’95MFA, dean of the School of Drama and artistic director of Yale Repertory Theatre, was co-sponsored by the School of Drama.
Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the Elizabethan Club is a private club that maintains a library and serves as a meeting place for conversation and discussion relating to literature and the arts. The club administers the annual Maynard Mack Lecture, which features a distinguished theater practitioner to speak on a topic of his or her choice. The lectureship honors the late Maynard Mack, Sterling Professor of English at Yale, chair of the department, and eminent scholar and critic of Shakespeare, Pope, and other literary figures.
Schreiber’s Broadway credits include the recent production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he received the Tony Award), andBetrayal. His numerous film and television credits include Salt,Every Day, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Sum of All Fears.
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