Tovah Feldshuh, LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Zibby moderated a conversation with actress Tovah Feldshuh about her memoir, Lilyville, as part of the Authors in Conversation @ Home series with the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC in Houston. Tovah answered questions about both her story and her mother's, what her experience was like as a first-time writer, and why she decided to structure her memoir as though it were a theatrical performance.
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| 0:40.2 | Welcome to Memoir Day of my June book blast. I'm releasing a bunch of really powerful, amazing memoir episodes today, and I really |
| 0:47.7 | hope you enjoy them. Memoir is like my favorite literary genre. I don't know what yours is, |
| 0:52.2 | but I love memoirs. I always learned so much, |
| 0:54.6 | and this is part one of the memoirs I have to release in this book blast. Enjoy. I was so |
| 1:00.8 | lucky to do a live event with Tova Feldshah. She's the author of Lilyville, mother, daughter, |
| 1:07.3 | and other roles I've played. Tova is a six-time Emmy and Tony nominee and has been |
| 1:12.4 | awarded three honorary doctorates of humane letters. Additionally, for her theater work, |
| 1:17.0 | she's won four drama desks, four Outer Critic Circle Awards, three drama logs, the Obie, |
| 1:22.2 | the theater world, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. |
| 1:28.2 | Listen to our conversation here. |
| 1:30.1 | She is so entertaining. |
| 1:32.1 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:33.2 | Hi, Tova. |
| 1:33.9 | Thanks so much for doing this with me. |
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