Thursday, July 7, 7 PM
Jeff Britting is a writer, composer and producer, who also manages the Ayn Rand Archives, a special collection of the Ayn Rand Institute. His work on Rand ranges across several media: the documentary feature film Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997 Academy Award ™ Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, 1998 Golden Satellite Award for Best Documentary Feature, 2000 American Library Association Video Panel—Best Documentary); contributions to Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We The Living” (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2004), and the forthcoming Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and Essays on Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead”; television appearances in conjunction with the C-SPAN American Writer’s Series presentation, Ayn Rand and “The Fountainhead.” Britting’s Rand scholarship has evolved alongside his work as a composer and producer. He scored and co-produced the first theatrical production of Rand’s stage play Ideal, which was called a “tour de force” by the Los Angeles Times. He is co-producer of the Feature film Take Two, directed by Sharyn Blumenthal, currently in post-production. As vice president of the Detroit-based Project Performance Art, he contributed writing and music to the critically acclaimed play Until, featuring Quentin Crisp. He is currently composing an opera based upon his own libretto, a drama of reason versus faith set in the Middle Ages. www.asenseoflife.com www.aynrand.org www.aynrand100.org John Brady (moderator) is a political scientist and writer living in Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, John works on contemporary political philosophy and the politics of the public realm. He is also interested in policy questions and has published studies and essays about immigration, multiculturalism and the politics of citizenship in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. His non-academic writings on popular culture and music have appeared in The New Republic Online, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Mother Jones among other publications. |
