Get to know Hunter’s own Gregory Mosher at Person Place Thing, a podcast hosted by Randy Cohen, original writer of the NYT Magazine column “The Ethicist.”
On Tuesday, April 8 at 2:30 pm at the Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College.
Join us for a special live taping of the acclaimed interview show Person Place Thing with host Randy Cohen. Hunter College’s own Gregory Mosher, Tony Award-winning producer, theater director and Executive Director of The Office of the Arts at Hunter College will share one person, one place, and one thing that hold deep meaning for him.
Based on the idea that people are most engaging when discussing what they truly care about, Person Place Thing brings out unexpected stories from fascinating guests. This event will feature live music from students in the Musical Theater class in the Theater department and will be recorded for broadcast.
Free Admission | Limited Seating – RSVP HERE
For more information and past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org
Gregory Mosher, Hunter College’s Executive Director of the Office of the Arts, came to Hunter from Columbia University in 2017, where he had launched the Columbia Arts Initiative, a university-wide effort to make the arts part of every Columbian’s education. He is a theater and film producer of more than 200 plays at the Goodman and Lincoln Center Theaters. His focus as a producer has been new work and audience accessibility. Colleagues have included Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Leonard Bernstein, David Mamet, Elaine May, Arthur Miller, Richard Nelson, Mike Nichols, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Tennessee Williams, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcot, and countless of the country’s outstanding actors. He is the recipient numerous American theater awards, including two Tony awards.
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them.