Join Northlight Theatre and The Jane Austen Society as they discuss Jane Austen’s influence on contemporary society. Featured guests include Jessica Thebus, director of Northlight Theatre’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and Diane Capitani, Education Director of The Jane Austen Society. This event will feature a Q&A discussion and will provide historical and literary context for Jane Austen’s work, and the modern work it inspires.

This event is free and open to the public.
Approximately 90 minutes.

at Bookends & Beginnings
1712 Sherman Ave Evanston, IL 60201

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Jessica Thebus

Director

Jessica is a director of theater and an educator based in Chicago. Past Northlight credits include Into the Breeches!, The Book of Will, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Shining Lives: A Musical, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Inherit the Wind and Red Herring. At Steppenwolf, she has directed Sex with Strangers, Intimate Apparel, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, No Place Like Home, When the Messenger is Hot (also at 59 E 59th in NYC) and Sonia Flew. Other favorite projects: Richard III (Gift), In the Garden by Sarah Gmitter (Lookingglass), Buzzer by Tracy Scott Wilson (Goodman), Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Next), As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare), The Feast: an intimate Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare with Redmoon). She is Director of the Graduate Directing Program at Northwestern University.