Screening of Season 1, Episode 8 “Cairo” followed by a Q&A with Ann Dowd.
Moderated by John Sellers, Esquire.
SYNOPSIS - Season One
THE LEFTOVERS: From Damon Lindelof, co-creator of “Lost,” and acclaimed novelist Tom Perrotta, this HBO drama series is an original look at The Rapture…because it’s not entirely clear The Rapture happened. Three years after the fateful day when 140 million people disappeared without a trace, the series looks at the ways ordinary people react to inexplicable events that can unite or divide families and communities, examining how their untold grief and the strain of an unprecedented calamity can turn faith into cynicism, paranoia, madness or cult-like fanaticism. Season one series regulars include Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Carrie Coon, Emily Meade, Amanda Warren, Ann Dowd, Michael Gaston, Max and Charlie Carver, and Annie Q. The series is produced for HBO by White Rabbit in association with Warner Bros. Television. Lindelof serves as showrunner.
PANELIST BIO
Ann Dowd's acting career spans across television, film, and theater. Ann just wrapped The Great & The Small written and directed by Sundance alum, Dusty Bias. Last fall she shot Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic opposite Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella and Steve Zahn. She will next be seen in David Gordon Green’s, Our Brand Is Crisis opposite Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. Her on screen experience includes films such as Oppenheimer Strategies, St. Vincent, WildLike, The Drop,Side Effects, the Sundance hits Compliance and Bachelorette, Marley & Me, The Informant, Garden State, Lorenzo’ s Oil, Philadelphia, Manchurian Candidate and The Forgotten. Dowd has been recognized for her portrayal of Sandra in Craig Zobel's Compliance, winning the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress in a Film, and earning nominations for an Independent Spirit Award and a Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Dowd is a series regular on HBO’s The Leftovers from creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta. She can also be seen on season 1 of HBO's True Detective, the HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge and she is currently recurring on Showtime’s Masters of Sex. Dowd is in the recently released Lifetime movie, Big Driver opposite Maria Bello,she has also appeared in the pilots for Shonda Rhimes' Gilded Lilys and WE tv's The Divide. Sheappeared as a series regular in Nothing Sacred and has had recurring roles on Freaks and Geeks, The Education of Max Bickford and Third Watch. She has appeared multiple times on all of the Law & Order series, and as a guest star on many television shows such as House, NYPD Blue and Louie.
As an onstage performer, Dowd has appeared in several Broadway shows including Candida, as Prossy, for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Broadway Debut, and the British director Ian Rickson's production of The Seagull. In New York, she has also appeared in Blood From A Stone with the New Group, as Mrs. Gibbs in David Cromer's production of Our Town at Barrow Street Theatre, she was opposite Ed Harris in Taking Sides, and as St. Joan in The Lark. Dowd has also performed extensively in regional theatre.
