2008 Speakers and Moderators

Some of the world's most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers, and leaders are gathered here. Each day, they will teach, speak, lead, question, and interact with an audience ready to delve into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion.

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Stephen Wadsworth

Stephen Wadsworth is a stage director, writer, and teacher. He is the James S. Marcus Faculty Fellow at the Juilliard School and Master Teacher at the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program. He wrote the opera A Quiet Place with Leonard Bernstein, and his translations of plays by Marivaux and Molière are published by Smith and Kraus. He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was a Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence at the Aspen Institute in 2007. His directing work this season and next includes the premiere of Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy at the Long Wharf, Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at the Metropolitan Opera, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Seattle Opera.