Dreamland Presents: Transatlantic Travel
by Ship, the Andrea Doria,
and a Survivor’s Story (co-presented by the Egan Maritime Institute) with
cocktail reception to follow
Julia Hansen will be our guest speaker on Aug
2nd. She will recount the
story of being rescued at sea when as a little girl she and her mother were
welcomed onto the Ile de France. She
will share her harrowing experience of being on the Andrea Doria off Nantucket
when it collided with the Stockholm. Her
talk will also include a brief summary of the history of transatlantic
passenger travel and insights into a glamorous bygone era. Following Julia’s talk,
she’ll sit down with Egan Maritime’s Director of Education and Public Programs
Evan Schwanfelder for a conversation and audience questions.
Bio:
Julia
was originally on Wall Street. Ultimately, she was able to pursue her passion
for theater as head of the Drama League of NY where she founded the Directors
Project. Alumni include such outstanding directors as Christopher Ashley,
Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse, James Bundy, Dean of the Yale School of Drama
and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theater, and Diane Paulus, Artistic
Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. Next, she founded Theater Masters to help
emerging playwrights. Her most recent program, JNS Theater for Social Change,
uses playwrighting to look at current critical topics. Students learn how to
write a short play, thereby, having to defend more than one side of an issue to
make it compelling. This program presently is at The University of Nebraska and
Ohio State University.
A
Vassar graduate, Julia loves being in Aspen, New York, London, Nantucket and
Palm Beach. She has a global web of friends from her far-reaching interests and
activities therein, most notably the theatre.
She
has spoken at The Society for the Four Arts in Palm Beach, the English Speaking
Union in New Orleans, the Somerset Club in Boston, The Colony Club in New York,
The Maritime Museum in Bath Maine and the Arts Club in Chicago. She is thrilled
to be back on Nantucket and addressing friends of the Dreamland Theater.
Tickets: $50