Posts Tagged ‘The Piven Theatre Workshop’


Chicago Art Magazine Article About Fear No Art Episode

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Fear No Art: Joan Cusack/Joyce Piven, Blair Thomas and Tony Fitzpatrick By Kathryn Born on Mar 23, 2011 in Chicago Art News, Featured She’s back! Elysabeth Alfano, host and creator of the WTTW program “Fear No Art”, returns to the small screen to deliver this 3rd installment of Chicago’s only television show dedicated to art Read more…

Joan Cusack

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Here is a clip from Elysabeth’s show, Fear No Art,  on Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. Joan Cusack began her acting career at The Piven Theatre Worshop, studying under Byne and Joyce Piven and crediting Joyce Piven with being instrumental in her acting career and he “artist mother”. Cusack has twice been nominated for Academy Award Read more…