LEWISTON — Beth Morrison, creative producer of Beth Morrison Projects, will be the featured speaker at the Great Falls Forum lecture series at noon Tuesday, May 22, in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library.

Morrison’s talk is titled, “Maine to New York: Local Girl Sets up Shop in the Big Apple’s Arts Scene.”

For the past six years she has been working on a variety of cutting-edge arts collaborations in her office on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Her company was set up to support the work of emerging and established composers and their collaborators. In its short history it has developed a reputation in music-theater, opera-theater and experimental multimedia productions.

In a recent Wall Street Journal feature story, Morrison was compared to the famed producer Sergei Diaghilev whose early 20th-century work with Ballets Russes revolutionized European art, dance and music.

Morrison grew up in Auburn and graduated from Edward Little High School where she got her start in the arts through EL’s show choir, band and drama club and with Community Little Theatre. She is the daughter of Jane and Chip Morrison of Auburn.

Morrison holds music degrees from Boston University and Arizona State University, along with a master of fine arts in theater management and production from the Yale School of Drama.

In her Great Falls Forum presentation, Morrison will talk about her latest projects and the career path that took her from L-A to New York City.

Admission is free to all forum events and reservations are not required.

Attendees are invited to bring brown-bag lunches, or to take advantage of the forum’s partnership with Guthries cafe and request one of the eatery’s custom-made, gourmet sandwiches or salads to be delivered to the library in advance of the talk. Orders may be placed by calling Guthries at 376-3344. The menu is available at www.guthriesplace.com. Coffee, tea and bottled water will be available at the library.

The Great Falls Forum is co-sponsored by Bates College, the Lewiston Public Library and the Sun Journal.

The library is at 200 Lisbon St. at the corner of Pine Street. More information on Tuesday’s lecture or other upcoming events in the Great Falls Forum series is available by contacting the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3135 or www.LPLonline.org.