This year’s lab participants will have a private one-on-one meeting with industry guest speaker, actor, STEPHEN LANG (Avatar, Beyond Glory) on Thursday, October 25, 2018.
Stephen Lang has earned enduring critical and popular acclaim over the course of a distinguished career as an actor in theatre, television, and film. His work on Broadway includes Death of a Salesman, A Few Good Men, The Speed of Darkness, and Hamlet. Nominations and awards include The Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, and Joseph Jefferson awards.
Lang has performed his solo play, Beyond Glory, for audiences all over the world, receiving the Chairman’s Medal for Distinguished Service from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bob Hope award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. His acclaimed film of Beyond Glory has received awards at the Barbados Independent Film Festival, Buffalo Niagara Film Fest, and the Phoenix Film Fest. Other memorable films include Last Exit to Brooklyn, Death of a Salesman, Tombstone, Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, Public Enemies, Avatar, and Don’t Breathe. He stars in Peter Jackson’s upcoming epic adventure film, Mortal Engines, which Universal Pictures will open worldwide in December, and is currently filming 4 Avatar sequels, directed by James Cameron. He has received Honorary Doctorates from Jacksonville University, and from his alma mater, Swarthmore College. He is a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of The Actors Studio.
Meet actor, Stephen Lang here in a Hollywood interview by DP/30.
Special thanks to our amazing partner 
Archives Partnership Trust for introducing our filmmakers this year to Mr. Lang.
The Empire State Archives and History Award acknowledges the outstanding contributions by a national figure to advance the understanding and uses of history in society. Previous award honorees include C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James McPherson, Robert Caro, Ron Chernow, David McCullough and Harold Holzer, documentarian Ken Burns, and actors Sam Waterson and Richard Dreyfuss for their popularization of history and civic literacy.
You too can attend this special VIP mixer and hear Mr. Lang as he receives The Empire State Archives Award.