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Enjoy lunch or dinner for you and a guest with DEBRA WINGER (An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, Shadowlands), and legendary theater director and SITI Company Founding Artistic Director Anne Bogart in New York City.
DEBRA WINGER:
Since her stunning arrival on the film scene in Urban Cowboy, Debra Winger has long been acknowledged as one of the screen?s finest actresses. Her performances in An Officer and A Gentleman, Terms of Endearment and Shadowlands brought her Best Actress Academy Award® nominations. She appeared in a remarkable variety of films in her early career with acclaimed performances in Cannery Row, Mike?s Murder, Leap of Faith, Forget Paris, and A Dangerous Woman (Golden Globe nomination). She worked with some of the great directors of the age, such as Bernardo Bertolucci in The Sheltering Sky, Costa Gavras in Betrayed, and Jonathan Demme in Rachel Getting Married. Winger?s decision to step away from film performance in the 1990's resulted in the birth of her second son, as well as stage performances with Michael Tilson-Thomas and the New World Symphony in a composition based on The Diary of Anne Frank, and acclaimed work in How I Learned to Drive and Ivanov at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she also managed a fellowship, teaching The Literature of Social Reflection for Robert Coles at Harvard University. Her absence from the screen also provided the inspiration for Rosanna Arquette?s celebrated 2003 documentary, ?Searching for Debra Winger.? This ?search? found Winger in the new century with a role in Arliss Howard?s film of Larry Brown?s story collection, Big Bad Love, which she also produced, and television appearances in the film Dawn Anna, which accorded her an Emmy nomination, and the HBO series, ?In Treatment.? In 2013 she starred in three episodes of "In the Woods," the first installment of Jennifer Elster's multimedia, experimental film series The Being Experience. Since 2016, Winger stars opposite Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher in the Netflix multi-cam comedy The Ranch as Maggie, had a cameo as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the TV Miniseries When We Rise, and starred in The Lovers, and Tiger City. Long active in social issues, Winger consulted creatively on the Academy Award nominated documentary Gasland and is an advocate for sustainable farming and veteran?s affairs. In 2010, Simon & Schuster published a collection of Winger's essays titles "undiscovered." In 2012, Winger made her Broadway debut in the original production of the David Mamet play The Anarchist. In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Transilvania International Film Festival.
ANNE BOGART:
Anne Bogart is one of the three Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include The Bacchae, the theater is a blank page, Persians, Steel Hammer, A Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women, American Document, Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, War of the Worlds: The Radio Play, Alice?s Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Noel Coward?s Hay Fever and Private Lives, August Strindberg?s Miss Julie, and Charles Mee?s Orestes. She is the author of five books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book, And Then, You Act, Conversations with Anne, and What?s the Story.
Item Special Note
Based on a mutually agreeable date between Debra Winger, Anne Bogart and the auction winner. Valid for winner and one (1) guest only. A SITI Company representative may be present to facilitate the lunch/dinner. Lunch/Dinner will take place at a restaurant in New York City to be determined at a later date. Sample restaurants include District Social, Houndstooth Pub, and Casa Nonna. Alcohol not included. Expires 12/1/19, unless extension is agreed upon by all parties.
In order prevent credit card fraud, if the winning bid exceeds $1,000, SITI Company may require a signed credit card authorization form, a photocopy of the purchasing credit card (all but the last 4 digits may be blacked out), and proof of identity (state-issued photo ID ? private ID numbers may be blacked out), OR payment via check or money order before arranging the prize package for the winner.
Photo Credits: Getty Images (Debra Winger), Craig Schwartz (Anne Bogart)