DEMAN

DEMAN DC Regional Chapter in the Works!

Regional volunteers Alexa Levy A.B.’15 and Lauren Menkes A.B.’83, P’24 are excited to start a DEMAN DC regional chapter to build a local networking group around media, arts, and entertainment.
 

DEMAN London x Young Vic

JAMES GRAHAM’S NEW PLAY, BEST OF ENEMIES, WEST END
 
Best of Enemies is a sell-out success, and transferred from the Young Vic to the West End in November. The Young Vic and DEMAN London are now offering a special opportunity for Duke alumni and parents to see the performance at the Noël Coward Theatre, on Tuesday 24th of January, at 6:45pm.
 

Recently published books by alumni

Writer: 

We asked Maureen Farrell ’01 about The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion (Crown), which she cowrote with Eliot Brown—the saga of the rise and fall of one of the most-valuable and most-hyped start-ups and its unusual leader.

Duke Magazine: What struck me in this book is that there’s something about the idea of a visionary that really captures people and that was a big driver in this story.

Students study political theater, then tell their own stories

Writer: 

When Faulkner Fox planned her inaugural political-theater workshop for fall 2020, she didn’t predict an imminent summer of activism.

At first, she’d thought it would be an in-person class attending in-person theater, but then the coronavirus made that impossible. Months later, a second global phenomenon: The Black Lives Matter movement surged in response to murders like George Floyd’s, which Fox (and her students-to-be) experienced in real time. Fox hadn’t been anywhere. She hadn’t even been inside a grocery store, but then she was in the streets, marching for racial justice.

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