Crystal Quill Awards October 4, 2011

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
CRYSTAL QUILL AWARDS

Blockbuster Film Director Roland Emmerich and
Entertainment Attorney and Author Bert Fields to be
Honored for their Contributions to the Shakespeare Authorship Debate
Evening to Include Exclusive Advance Screening of
Roland Emmerich’s Soon to be Released Film,
Anonymous

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 7:00 p.m., Sony Studios

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), a professional theater and arts education nonprofit organization that builds communities around the appreciation and production of Shakespeare, will present blockbuster film director Roland Emmerich and entertainment attorney and author Bert Fields with the Crystal Quill Award for their contributions to the Shakespeare authorship debate. A special Crystal Quill Award will also be awarded to Martha Andresen, Professor Emerita of English from Pomona College for her stellar international reputation for Shakespeare scholarship, publications and teaching. The awards will be presented at an exclusive advance screening of Emmerich’s upcoming film ANONYMOUS, to be released in theaters October 28th, followed by a dessert reception catered by Wolfgang Puck at Sony Studios on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. The awards will be presented immediately after the screening followed by the reception. Tickets are $250 and can be purchased by calling Levy, Pazanti and Associates at (310) 201-5033.

The 2011 Crystal Quill Awards co-chairs are Pamela Robinson, Principal, The Robinson Company and Michael Davis, Managing Director and Head of the Western Region, Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management. Past Crystal Quill Awardees have included filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, Producer Mark Gordon, Harvard University’s Project Zero Steve Seidel, and former First Lady Laura Bush. For more information on the Crystal Quill Awards, SCLA’s programs, and how to support SCLA’s mission to enchant, enrich and build community through professional theatrical traditions that are accessible to all, please visit www.ShakespeareCenter.org.