Chris Colfer, Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler, Nancy Pelosi and Richard Dawkins will be among the actors, performers, comedians, politicians, bigwigs, authors and atheist contrarians appearing at the 2011 New Yorker Festival, hosted by that magazine and running from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2, its organizers said on Thursday.
In addition to figures like Mr. Colfer (“Glee”), Ms. Poehler and Mr. Ansari (“Parks and Recreation”) and Ms. Pelosi (the U.S. House of Representatives), interviews at the festival will feature the actors Ellen Barkin, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson; the director David Cronenberg; the singer-songwriter St. Vincent; the authors Geoff Dyer and Jonathan Franzen; the singer Barbara Cook and the rock band Scissor Sisters.
Film presentations include screenings of “Coriolanus,” directed by Ralph Fiennes, followed by a talk with Mr. Fiennes and Anthony Lane, the New Yorker’s film critic; and “Anonymous,” Roland Emmerich’s film about the authorship of Shakespeare’s works, followed by a discussion with Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro and Larissa MacFarquhar, a staff writer for the magazine.
Presentations will be made by other New Yorker writers and contributors including Malcolm Gladwell (on the virtues of obnoxiousness); Atul Gawande (on sports coaches in operating rooms) and Rebecca Mead (on George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”). Lauren Collins will host a brunch at the Breslin Bar and Dining Room of the Ace Hotel, followed by a talk with its chef, April Bloomfield, and the co-owner Ken Friedman; and Calvin Trillin will conduct a tasting walk from Greenwich Village to Chinatown.
Other panels include a discussion of television, featuring Laura Dern, Edie Falco, William H. Macy and Jeremy Irons; and conversations on 3-D; capital punishment; and journalism in conflict zones.
Tickets for festival events go on sale at noon on Sept. 9, and can be bought online at newyorker.com/festival or by calling (800) 440-6974.
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