TOP SECRET TALKS

Schedule of Events
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	The NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service presents A Conversation with Geoffrey Cowan and Robert Shrum Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Robert Shrum, Senior Fellow, NYU Wagner; Political Consultant; Author, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 February 25, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	The Asia Society presents The Learned and Unlearned Lessons of the Vietnam War and the Nixon Administration Jonathan Schell, Author and Journalist Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 February 28, 2010 \| 7:00 PM Performance \| 8:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Afterwords with the Jack Doulin and the Cast Please join the cast of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers as they discuss the process of creating the play. Panel moderated by Jack Doulin, Casting Director, New York Theatre Workshop New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 2, 2010 \| 7:00 PM Performance \| 8:30 PM Discussion


	The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU presents The Language of Torturers: The Pentagon Papers, Then and Now David Rudenstine , Author, The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case; Former Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Todd Gitlin, Author, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University Panel moderated by Steve Wasserman, Acting Director, New York Institute for the Humanities New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 3, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	Human Rights Watch presents An Evening with Human Rights Watch Marcus Brauchli, Executive Editor, The Washington Post Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News Tim Weiner, Pulitzer prize-winning Journalist and Author, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA and Panel moderated by Carroll Bogert, Associate Director, Human Rights Watch New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 4, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents USC Annenberg Benefit Jill Abramson, Managing Editor, New York Times Carl Bernstein, Legendary Investigative Reporter Norm Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg L.P. Panel moderated by Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Welcoming remarks by Stephen Graham, Founding Trustee of New York Theatre Workshop and son of Katharine Graham New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 6, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	Millie Harmon Meyers & Joshua Boneh present A Salute to Roy Aarons A special program celebrating the legacy of Leroy Aarons, acclaimed journalist, author, activist, and co-writer of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers. A conversation with those who knew him best including Monica Alba, Junior Fellow, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Earl Caldwell, former writer for the New York Times, currently a professor of journalism at Hampton University Charles Kaiser, Author, Full Court Press; Founder and Former President, New York Chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Rebecca Miller, Actor, Prayers for Bobby Panel moderated by Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 7, 2010 \| 2:00 PM Matinee \| 3:30 PM Discussion


	The Center for Public Integrity presents Investigative Journalism, Then and Now William E. Buzenberg, Executive Director, Center for Public Integrity Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Bill Kovach, Chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists Panel moderated by Sheila Coronel, Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University; Founder, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 11, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Truth and Fiction in the Docudrama Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, creators of 2002’s acclaimed docu-play The Exonerated and Aftermath, an original piece drawn from interviews with Iraqi civilians, which premiered at NYTW in fall 2009. Greg Pierotti, member, Tectonic Theatre Project; co-creator of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later; and Goldberg Scholar, SUNY Empire State College New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 12, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	Columbia Journalism Review presents Columbia Journalism Review Benefit Performance Daniel Ellsberg, Former Defense and State Department official who gave the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post Leslie Gelb, Journalist; Diplomat; President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations James Goodale, Former Vice Chairman and General Counsel, The New York Times Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Panel moderated by Victor Navasky , Chairman, Columbia Journalism Review; Delacorte Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 16, 2010 \| 7:00 PM Performance \| 8:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Women, Leadership, the Law, and the Press Karen rothenberg, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law & Former Dean, University of Maryland School of Law; Scholar-in-Residence, Columbia Law School & Senior Sabbatical Fellow at its Center for the Study of Law and Culture New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 17, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University presents Top Secret Talks: Professor Robert P. George Daniel Mark, Student, Princeton University Shivani Radhakrishnan, Student, Princeton University Jose Joel Alicea, Student, Princeton University Panel moderated by Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 20, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:50 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Confidential Government Information in the Internet Age: Roles and Responsibilities of Courts, the Executive Branch, and the Media Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Professor Burt Neuborne, Inez Mulholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University, and Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 27, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion

	The NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service presents A Conversation with Geoffrey Cowan and Robert Shrum Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Robert Shrum, Senior Fellow, NYU Wagner; Political Consultant; Author, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 February 25, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	The Asia Society presents The Learned and Unlearned Lessons of the Vietnam War and the Nixon Administration Jonathan Schell, Author and Journalist Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 February 28, 2010 \| 7:00 PM Performance \| 8:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Afterwords with the Jack Doulin and the Cast Please join the cast of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers as they discuss the process of creating the play. Panel moderated by Jack Doulin, Casting Director, New York Theatre Workshop New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 2, 2010 \| 7:00 PM Performance \| 8:30 PM Discussion


	The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU presents The Language of Torturers: The Pentagon Papers, Then and Now David Rudenstine , Author, The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case; Former Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Todd Gitlin, Author, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University Panel moderated by Steve Wasserman, Acting Director, New York Institute for the Humanities New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 3, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	Human Rights Watch presents An Evening with Human Rights Watch Marcus Brauchli, Executive Editor, The Washington Post Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News Tim Weiner, Pulitzer prize-winning Journalist and Author, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA and Panel moderated by Carroll Bogert, Associate Director, Human Rights Watch New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 4, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents USC Annenberg Benefit Jill Abramson, Managing Editor, New York Times Carl Bernstein, Legendary Investigative Reporter Norm Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg L.P. Panel moderated by Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Welcoming remarks by Stephen Graham, Founding Trustee of New York Theatre Workshop and son of Katharine Graham New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 6, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	Millie Harmon Meyers & Joshua Boneh present A Salute to Roy Aarons A special program celebrating the legacy of Leroy Aarons, acclaimed journalist, author, activist, and co-writer of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers. A conversation with those who knew him best including Monica Alba, Junior Fellow, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Earl Caldwell, former writer for the New York Times, currently a professor of journalism at Hampton University Charles Kaiser, Author, Full Court Press; Founder and Former President, New York Chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Rebecca Miller, Actor, Prayers for Bobby Panel moderated by Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 7, 2010 \| 2:00 PM Matinee \| 3:30 PM Discussion


	The Center for Public Integrity presents Investigative Journalism, Then and Now William E. Buzenberg, Executive Director, Center for Public Integrity Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Bill Kovach, Chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists Panel moderated by Sheila Coronel, Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University; Founder, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 11, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Truth and Fiction in the Docudrama Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, creators of 2002’s acclaimed docu-play The Exonerated and Aftermath, an original piece drawn from interviews with Iraqi civilians, which premiered at NYTW in fall 2009. Greg Pierotti, member, Tectonic Theatre Project; co-creator of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later; and Goldberg Scholar, SUNY Empire State College New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 12, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	Columbia Journalism Review presents Columbia Journalism Review Benefit Performance Daniel Ellsberg, Former Defense and State Department official who gave the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post Leslie Gelb, Journalist; Diplomat; President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations James Goodale, Former Vice Chairman and General Counsel, The New York Times Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Panel moderated by Victor Navasky , Chairman, Columbia Journalism Review; Delacorte Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 16, 2010 \| 7:00 PM Performance \| 8:30 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Women, Leadership, the Law, and the Press Karen rothenberg, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law & Former Dean, University of Maryland School of Law; Scholar-in-Residence, Columbia Law School & Senior Sabbatical Fellow at its Center for the Study of Law and Culture New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 17, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion


	James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University presents Top Secret Talks: Professor Robert P. George Daniel Mark, Student, Princeton University Shivani Radhakrishnan, Student, Princeton University Jose Joel Alicea, Student, Princeton University Panel moderated by Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 20, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:50 PM Discussion


	USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Confidential Government Information in the Internet Age: Roles and Responsibilities of Courts, the Executive Branch, and the Media Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Professor Burt Neuborne, Inez Mulholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University, and Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice New York Theatre Workshop \| 79 East 4^th St. NY, NY 10003 March 27, 2010 \| 8:00 PM Performance \| 9:30 PM Discussion

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Schedule of Events For more information please e-mail: commlead@usc.edu

Schedule of Events
For more information please e-mail: commlead@usc.edu