An assistant professor of theater at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will offer insight into the world of acting.
Carl Granieri is the speaker for the annual Gloria Fiero Lecture sponsored by the Friends of Humanities. The free presentation is open to the public. It will begin at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, in Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 177, on the UL Lafayette campus. Parking is available in the Girard Park Circle Parking Tower.
Granieri will bring extensive years of experience and insight to the topic of “More Real Than Life: Actors, Directors, and the Radical Honesty of Imaginary Worlds.” He holds a master’s degree in acting from Temple University and a master’s degree in dramaturgy from Villanova University.
Granieri is a theater director and actor who began his career on stage in Philadelphia with tent-pole companies there, including Theatre Exile, Act II Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co., Mauckingbird Theatre Co., Simpatico Theatre Project, the PAC, Delaware Theatre Co., and the Delaware Shakespeare Festival, among others. His work on Necropolis for the London-based Beautiful Confusion was named one of the 10 best of the 2007 International Prague Fringe Festival.
Prior to joining the faculty at UL Lafayette, he held teaching posts at Rowan University, Temple University, and University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
This annual lecture in the humanities was named for Dr. Gloria Fiero, a former UL Lafayette faculty member whose popular courses were one of the strongest initial attractions for Friends of Humanities. The nonprofit organization, established in 1989, is dedicated to enhancing the role of the interdisciplinary humanities at UL Lafayette and in Acadiana, supporting the Colleges of the Arts and Liberal Arts, and strengthening the resources of the University’s humanities program.