Eliza Beckwith is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater
Theatre and all the performing arts were (and continue to be) profoundly affected by the Covid 19 pandemic. In this talk Eliza Beckwith will discuss how the art form needed to pivot to virtual models - what worked and what did not, how the professional theatre industry was almost completely shut down for a year and a half and the economic fallout that resulted, how live theatre has come back, and the changes its been forced to make. She will also discuss in detail the ways in which she dealt with the shut-down, her outdoor production of Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven in Alfred in September of 2020, and her newfound collaboration with Big Telly Theatre Company in Northern Ireland, a direct and positive result of the pandemic's restrictions.
