Join a conversation between the James Joyce Society and Elevator Repair Service on Joyce’s birthday!

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John Collins founded Elevator Repair Service in 1991. Since then, he has directed or co-directed all of the company’s productions and also serves as the company’s artistic director. ERS productions directed by Collins include Ulysses, Cab Legs, Room Tone, Gatz, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), The Sound and the Fury, Arguendo, and numerous others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.

Scott Shepherd has been a member of Elevator Repair Service since 1994 when he played a drunk passed out on a radiator in McGurk: A Cautionary Tale. Other ERS appearances include Gatz, Measure for Measure, Cab Legs, and most recently Ulysses, which he co-directed. He has also worked with The Wooster Group for over 25 years, performing in Hamlet, The Town Hall Affair, Poor Theater, and To You, The Birdie!, among others. He won Obie Awards for Gatz and Poor Theater. His screen credits include The Phoenician Scheme, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Last of Us, First Cow, El Camino, True Detective, The Young Pope, and Bridge of Spies.