Nov. 28, 2022
7 to 8 p.m.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore is thrilled to be able to offer our alumni this special virtual event featuring Baltimore filmmaker, author, and actor John Waters.

Waters has written and directed 16 movies including “Pink Flamingos,” “Female Trouble,” “Polyester,” “Hairspray,” “Cry Baby,” “Serial Mom,” and “A Dirty Shame.”

He is the author of 10 books including “Shock Value,” “Pink Flamingos and Other Trash,” “Hairspray, Female Trouble and Multiple Maniacs,” “Art: A Sex Book” (co-written with Bruce Hainley), “Carsick,” and his first novel, “Liarmouth: A Feel Bad Romance.”

Waters is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as the Maryland Film Festival.

In 2015, Waters was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and the next year received the same honor from the Maryland Institute College of Art. The French Minister of Culture bestowed the rank of Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters to Waters in 2015. In 2017, he was honored with the Writers Guild of America East’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award for his body of work as a writer in motion pictures.

Waters also is a photographer whose work has been shown in galleries around the world, and he has performed his one-man spoken-word lectures titled “This Filthy World,” “False Negative,” and “Make Trouble” as well as his annual Christmas show, “A John Waters Christmas,” at colleges, museums, film festivals, and comedy clubs.