Event Program
Kelly Ripa, Live Wire
KELLY RIPA, LIVE WIRE
THUR, SEPTEMBER 29
CONVERSATION
KELLY RIPA AND ANDERSON COOPER
Q&A WITH THE AUDIENCE
With the health and safety of our artists, audience, and staff in mind, all audience questions have been submitted in advance.
There will not be a book signing at this event.
THE ARTISTS
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° and also hosts the podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper. Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in more than forty countries and has covered nearly all-major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, he was selected by the Committee On Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. He is a regular correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes and has been awarded nineteen Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Cooper is the author of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty; The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss; and Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival, all of which topped the New York Times bestseller list.
Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° and also hosts the podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper. Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in more than forty countries and has covered nearly all-major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, he was selected by the Committee On Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. He is a regular correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes and has been awarded nineteen Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Cooper is the author of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty; The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss; and Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival, all of which topped the New York Times bestseller list.
Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa is one of the most powerful voices in media. In her more than 20-year stint as host for Live, she has been honored with six Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Talk Show Host and 15 Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show, with a win in the category in 2012. Ripa first appeared on All My Children, where she met her husband, Mark Consuelos, and earned three Daytime Emmy nominations. She guest-starred on an episode of Broad City, starred in three seasons of the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, and hosted Saturday Night Live. She and her husband’s NY-based production company, Milojo Productions, produced the Emmy®-nominated documentary The Streak for ESPN and the critically acclaimed documentary Off the Rez for TLC. She has earned the Excellence in Media Award from GLAAD, Glamour’s Woman of the Year Award, and has been named as part of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 list, as well as the publication’s 35 Most Powerful People in Media. Now, Ripa adds author to her resume, with her collection Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, published by Dey Street Books.
Kelly Ripa is one of the most powerful voices in media. In her more than 20-year stint as host for Live, she has been honored with six Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Talk Show Host and 15 Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show, with a win in the category in 2012. Ripa first appeared on All My Children, where she met her husband, Mark Consuelos, and earned three Daytime Emmy nominations. She guest-starred on an episode of Broad City, starred in three seasons of the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, and hosted Saturday Night Live. She and her husband’s NY-based production company, Milojo Productions, produced the Emmy®-nominated documentary The Streak for ESPN and the critically acclaimed documentary Off the Rez for TLC. She has earned the Excellence in Media Award from GLAAD, Glamour’s Woman of the Year Award, and has been named as part of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 list, as well as the publication’s 35 Most Powerful People in Media. Now, Ripa adds author to her resume, with her collection Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, published by Dey Street Books.
MORE INFORMATION
This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the MacMillan Family Foundation, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, The Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Michael Tuch Foundation, the Vidda Foundation, and The Grodzins Fund.
This program is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Symphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.
Pianos by Steinway & Sons – the Artistic Choice of Symphony Space.
Flowers courtesy of PlantShed.
Kathy Landau Executive Director
Peg Wreen Managing Director
Isaiah Sheffer*
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1988)
Artistic Director (1988-2010)
Founding Artistic Director (2010-2012)
Allan Miller
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1988)
Jennifer Brennan Director of Literary Programs
Drew Richardson Lead Producer of Literary Programs
Vivienne Woodward Producer of Literary Programs
Mary Shimkin Director of Broadcast & Literary Initiatives
Matthew Love Consultant for Literary Programs
Magdalene Wrobleski Literary Assistant
Mollie Gordon Program Assistant
Madeleine Hearn Literary Intern
Gabriela Parra Lambis Literary Intern
*in memoriam
