Following The Events Of 9/11, theater director Anne Bogart noticed that people were "gravitating with gusto toward one another to converse, to consider, to listen and to discuss substantive issues." She began an initiative at her SITI Company studio in New York, inviting artists and cultural thinkers whom she admired to a series of public conversations before a live audience. These conver-sations took place over a ten-year period, becoming highly anticipated events with very limited seating. Now for the first time these extraordinary conversations are available to share with a wider audience<BR><BR>The individuals included have had a profound effect on the arts and artistry over the past twenty-five years: JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Ben Cameron, Martha Clarke, Oskar Eustis, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, Andre Gregory, Bill T. Jones, Tina Landau, Elizabeth LeCompte, Eduardo Machado, Charles L. Mee, Jr., Joseph V. Melillo, Meredith Monk, Mary Overlie, Peter Sellars, SITI Company, Molly Smith, Elizabeth Streb, Julie Taymor, Paula Vogel, Robert Woodruff and Mary Zimmerman<BR><BR>A seven-time Obie winner, Siti Company is based in New York City with a summer institute in Saratoga Springs. The company is recognized throughout the world as one of theater's most important artistic collectives, creating ground-breaking work while training artists from all over the world. SITI has visited twenty-one countries on five continents and created more than thirty new pro-ductions, including such iconic pieces as The Medium (1994), War of the Worlds--- The Radio Play (1999), bobrauschenbergamerica (2001), Score (2002), Death and the Ploughman (2004), Hotel Cassiopeia (2006) Radio Macbeth (2007), American Document (2010, a collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company) and, most recently, Trojan Women (2011)