THE SEGAL CENTER
Home to theatre artists, scholars, students, performing arts managers, and the local and international performance communities, The Segal Center—located at the Graduate Center CUNY—provides a supportive environment for conversation, open exchange, and the development of new ideas and new work. Year round, the Center presents a wide variety of free public programs which feature leading national and international artists, scholars, and arts professionals in conversation about theatre and performance.
Programs include staged readings to further the development of new and classic plays, festivals celebrating New York performance (PRELUDE) and international plays (PEN World Voices), international Film & Theatre Festival screenings of performance works on film, artists in conversation, academic lecture series, televised seminars, symposia, and arts in education programs. In addition, the Center maintains its long-standing visiting-scholars-from-abroad program, publishes a series of highly regarded academic journals, as well as single volumes of importance (including plays in translation), all written and edited by renowned scholars.
The Center serves as a resource center for CUNY, for New York City, and for the nation; and to disseminate the results of its activities to the scholarly community and to the world at large through publications, conferences, and exhibitions. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY occupies a place unlike any other organization in New York City: in the space between public arts presenter, academic publisher, and research nexus. For more than 20 years, the Segal Center has bridged the academic and professional performing arts communities by fostering dialogue between playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers, filmmakers, critics, and academics from New York and around the world.
