Keynote: Martyna Martok

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok delivers a stirring keynote weaving together Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and her own immigrant story to explore how art serves as resistance against cultural devastation and loneliness.

Drawing from her current Broadway adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, Majok examines Guy Montag's journey from book-burner to truth-seeker as a mirror for our own times of censorship, distraction, and disconnection. She reflects on the "loneliness epidemic" plaguing America and how meaningful art—like the books Montag risks everything to save—offers "quality" and "pores" that reveal life's complexity rather than the "wax moon faces" of comfortable conformity.

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