Trinity Rep Names Bevilacqua Conversationalist-In-Residence
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Trinity Repertory Company has announced that Christina Bevilacqua has been named Conversationalist-In-Residence. She comes to Trinity Rep after spending 11 years at the Providence Athenaeum.
“Christina Bevilacqua is a star in the cultural cosmos of Providence. She has an incredible ability to spot opportunities for rich conversation and to produce exciting and stimulating events about those conversations. Because her skills so perfectly blend with Trinity Rep's position as Rhode Island's 'public square,' a place for community dialogue, we couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Christina and to further develop our programming with her expertise,” said artistic director Curt Columbus.
Bevilacqua will use her skills as a cultural curator to guide the public conversation surrounding the company’s 53rd season.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“As we enter this New Year, after a period of sobering division and intense national introspection, most of us, across the political and cultural spectrum, are longing for understanding and connection. I think local conversation is a great place to start, and Trinity Rep will be creating ways for you to engage with people next to you in the theater, across the city, and throughout our state,” said Bevilacqua.
She will work with Trinity’s artistic and education staffs to create conversational opportunities throughout the season, and to enhance the theater’s signature events like the Great Writers Series and the Lunch and Learn series.
Christina Bevilacqua
Bevilacqua is a cultural curator who uses the arts and humanities to cultivate conversation among the public.
Prior to coming to Trinity, she worked at the Providence Athenaeum from 2005 to 2016, wherein 2006 she created the Athenaeum Salon, a weekly event bringing Athenaeum members and the general public together for conversations on such topics as history, visual art, theater, politics, fashion, collecting, literature, food, music, architecture, science, education, and urban policy.
In 2013, the RI Council for the Humanities awarded her the Tom Roberts Prize for Creative Achievement in the Humanities in recognition of the impact that the salon had on the cultural life in the state.
She earned a BA in Writing and Literature from Bard College and an MA in Social Policy from the University of Chicago. In addition to her work in publishing, social services, retail, and criminal justice in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Providence, she spent the years from 1992 to 2000 as a custom milliner.
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