NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is inviting guests to experience films selected and presented by award-winning producer Meryl Poster, in conversation with special guests. Get behind-the-scenes insights and celebrate cinema as an essential art form.
This upcoming program on Wednesday, Sept. 23, will feature a screening of 2004’s “Shall We Dance?,” followed by a conversation between Poster and actor Lisa Ann Walter, joining the program via Zoom.
NOMA’s Producer’s Choice Film Series launched in 2025 and has offered the opportunity for attendees to hear directly from guests including Jude Law, Julie Taymor, Julian Schnabel, Ed Harris, Robert Nelson Jacobs, and Marc Klein.
WHEN
Wednesday, September 23, 6:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
WHERE
NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
1 Collins C. Diboll Circle
New Orleans, LA 70124
WHO
Lisa Ann Walter’s career spans television, film and stage. She currently stars as Melissa Schemmenti in ABC’s Emmy-nominated, SAG Award Best Comedy Ensemble-winning “Abbott Elementary.” She is a successful stand up comedian, having spent the last 20 years touring the US to sold-out venues. This spring, her first ever stand-up special will premiere on Hulu.
Walter’s film credits include the beloved “The Parent Trap,” “Shall We Dance?,” “Bruce Almighty” and Steven Spielberg’s “War of The Worlds.” Walter also co-created, produced, and starred in Fox’s “My Wildest Dreams,” ABC’s “Life’s Work” and NBC’s “Dance Your Ass Off.” Her memoir, “The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It’s Behind Me” (Harper Collins/Harper One) is a comedic look at a chronic self-loather and former “chubby” girl trying to make it in the glamorous world of size “0” Hollywood.
Walter is on the board of numerous organizations including The Entertainment Community Fund (for whom she won $1 million as Celebrity Jeopardy champion), the ERA Coalition as a long-dedicated Women’s Rights Activist, and the SAG/AFTRA National & Local Organization, where she was recently elected as the First Vice President of the Los Angeles Local. She is most proud of being a working mom of four with “one foot on the red carpet…the other at Costco.”
Meryl Poster is a multi-award-winning producer, media executive and industry leader with a distinguished career spanning film, television and digital media. She began as one of the first female trainees in the famed William Morris mailroom and went on to become a driving force in entertainment.
Today, she is the founder and president of Superb Entertainment, a production company developing a diverse slate of scripted and unscripted content across major networks and platforms. Upcoming projects include a film adaptation of The Mosquito Supper Club Cookbook; Las Hermanas, a modern retelling of Little Women for Sony Pictures; as well as a television series with Keshet based on the book Becoming Bulletproof. Read more at noma.org.
TICKETS AND FUTURE PROGRAMS
Tickets are $10 for NOMA members; $15 general admission. Advance tickets available at noma.org.