Playwright Horton Foote speaks Oct. 21

Playwright Horton Foote speaks Oct. 21
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Academy Award-winning playwright Horton Foote will share his thoughts on writing plays and screenplays during a free public lecture at Rice Oct. 21. His lecture was rescheduled from Sept. 16, due to the terrorist attacks on the nation.

Invited by the Friends of Fondren Library for its Distinguished Guest Lecture, Foote will speak at 2 p.m. in Stude Concert Hall at Rice’s Alice Pratt Brown Hall. Reservations are not needed. Free parking is available in Lot L by Entrance 8 from University Boulevard and Lot E by Entrance 13 from Rice Boulevard.

Foote’s screenplay of Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird" and his original screenplay for "Tender Mercies" both won Oscars. He received the Pulitzer Prize in drama for "The Young Man from Atlanta" and an Emmy for his dramatization of William Faulkner’s "The Old Man." Foote also has been honored with the U.S. Presidential National Medal of Arts and the Writers Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award.

Foote has written two dozen plays that have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway and at many regional theaters. Houston hosted the world premiere of his most recent play, "The Carpetbagger’s Children," this past June in a production that starred Jean Stapleton.

The Friends of Fondren Library will host a reception after Foote’s presentation. Foote’s memoir, "Farewell," will be available for purchase.

For more information call (713) 348-5157.