
"WordTheatre is a great, freewheeling, passionately engaged interpreter of contemporary short fiction. Whereas other such enterprises are content to cherry pick a few classics in a predictable setting, WordTheatre finds work that can bring about great performances in its constituency of first-rate performers, always in search of the ineffable and the uncanny that are at the heart of the very best in world literature. Their ambition is for the new, the challenging, and the emotionally rich. In my own case, I have never heard such wonderful and illuminated performances of my own work." - Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
Our Voices
Check out some of the talented people who have participated in WordTheatre.
Our ActorsMark Addy (The Full Monty, Robin Hood)Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, 24) Adam Arkin (The West Wing, Sons of Anarchy) Kathy Baker (Edward Scissorhands, Medium) Philip Baker Hall (Magnolia, Curb Your Enthusiasm) Bob Balaban (Capote, Howl) Angela Bassett (What’s Love Got to do With It, ER) Maria Bello (Secret Window, A History of Violence) Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption, Smallville) Xander Berkeley (24, Nikita) Mayim Bialik (Blossom, The Big Bang Theory) Craig Bierko (Boston Legal, Damages) Gil Birmingham (Twilight, New Moon) Marc Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I Capture the Castle) Rachel Boston (Grey’s Anatomy, (500) Days of Summer) Jesse Bradford (The West Wing, Outlaw) Nicholas Brendon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Criminal Minds) Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy, Private Practice) Lucy Brown (North and South, Primeval) Jere Burns (Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Breaking Bad) Kate Burton (Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife) Austin Butler (Aliens in the Attic, Life Unexpected) Jessica Capshaw (The Practice, Grey’s Anatomy) Linda Cardellini (Freaks and Geeks, ER) Len Cariou (About Schmidt, Damages) Justin Chambers (The Wedding Planner, Grey’s Anatomy) Kyle Chandler (Grey’s Anatomy, Friday Night Lights) Michael Chiklis (Fantastic Four, The Shield) Erika Christensen (Traffic, Parenthood) Sarah Clarke (24, Twilight) Gary Cole (Pineapple Express, Entourage) Jessica Collins (Catch Me If You Can, Nip/Tuck) Stephen Collins (7th Heaven, Private Practice) Kevin Corrigan (The Departed, Pineapple Express) Michaela Conlin (Bones, Enchanted) Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy, Zodiac) David Cross (Arrested Development, Year One) Matt Dallas (Kyle XY, Eastwick) Keith David (Platoon, Crash) Bruce Davison (X-Men, Knightrider) Dana Delany (Fly Away Home, Desperate Housewives) Seamus Dever (Army Wives, Castle) George DelHoyo (Beverly Hills, 90210, Just Shoot Me!) Catherine Dent (The Shield, Lie to Me) Omar Dorsey (Entourage, The Blind Side) Illeana Douglas (To Die For, Goodfellas) Gary Dourdan (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Alien: Resurrection) Minnie Driver (Circle of Friends, Good Will Hunting) Lindsay Duncan (Under the Tuscan Sun, Alice in Wonderland) Nelsan Ellis (The Soloist, True Blood) Kathryn Erbe (OZ, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) Robert Forster (Jackie Brown, Heroes) Ben Foster (Six Feet Under, The Messenger) James Franco (Milk, 127 Hours) Cassidy Freeman (Cold Case, Smallville) Edi Gathegi (House M.D., Twilight) Peri Gilpin (Frasier, Make It Or Break It) John Glover (Heroes, Smallville) Chris Gorham (Ugly Betty, Covert Affairs) Carla Gugino (Watchmen, Entourage) Evan Handler (Sex In The City, Californication) Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock, Mystic River) Jason Butler Harner (The Good Shepherd, Changeling) Tess Harper (No Country for Old Men, Tender Mercies) Ed Harris (Pollock, Empire Falls) Ian Hart (Michael Collins, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) Sally Hawkins (An Education, Never Let Me Go) John Heard (The Sopranos, Big) Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences 2010 on Broadway, Law & Order) Barry Shabaka Henley (Collateral, FlashForward) Gregg Henry (Gilmore Girls, Hung) Howard Hessemen (About Schmidt, Boston Legal) Marin Hinkle (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Two and a Half Men) Ashton Holmes (A History of Violence, Nikita) Brian Howe (Catch Me If You Can, Gran Torino) Jon Huertas (NCIS, Castle) Amy Irving (Hide and Seek, Alias) Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies, Without a Trace) Gemma Jones (Bridget Jones’ Diary, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) Sung Kang (Live Free or Die Hard, Fast & Furious) Ravi Kapoor (24, FlashForward) David Krumholtz (10 Things I Hate About You, Numb3rs) Sharon Lawrence (Desperate Housewives, Drop Dead Diva) Kate Levering (Drop Dead Diva, NCIS: Los Angeles) Damian Lewis (Life) Donal Logue (ER, Grounded For Life) Meredith Scott Lynn (CSI: Criminal Scene Investigation, Desperate Housewives) Alastair Mackenzie (Monarch of the Glen, The Mentalist) Amy Madigan (Grey’s Anatomy, Fringe) Roma Maffia (Dexter, Nip/Tuck) Sean Maguire (Meet the Spartans, CSI: New York) Wendie Malick (Jus Shoot Me!, Hot In Cleveland) Camryn Manheim (The Practice, Ghost Whisperer) Julianna Margulies (ER, The Good Wife) Mary Stuart Masterson (Fried Green Tomatoes, Benny and June) Samantha Mathis (American Psycho, Grey’s Anatomy) Andrew McCarthy (Pretty In Pink, Lipstick Jungle) John McCook (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful) Carolyn McCormick (Judging Amy, Law & Order) Christopher McDonald (Happy Gilmore, SGU Stargate Universe) Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica, Donnie Darko) Jack McGee (Crash, CSI: New York) Nicki Micheaux (The Shield, Lincoln Heights) Ben Miller (Primeval) Dorian Missick (The Manchurian Candidate, Sons of Anarchy) Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, An Education) Janel Moloney (The West Wing, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) David Morrissey (Hillary and Jackie, The Other Boleyn Girl) Mark Moses (Mad Men, Desperate Housewives) Dermot Mulroney (Burn After Reading, Flash of Genius) Ming Na (Two and a Half Men, SGU Stargate Universe) Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club, Two and a Half Men) Paula Newsome (NCIS, Drop Dead Diva) Chris Noth (Sex and the City, The Good Wife) Larisa Oleynik (Third Rock From the Sun, 10 Things I Hate About You) Annette O'Toole (Nash Bridges, Smallville) Adrian Pasdar (Desperate Housewives, Heroes) Bhasker Patel (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) Sarah Paulson (Deadwood, Grey’s Anatomy) Elizabeth Perkins (Big, Weeds) Lou Diamond Phillips (Numb3rs, SGU Stargate Universe) Vincent Piazza (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) James Pickens Jr. (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Grey’s Anatomy) Christina Pickles (Friends, How I Met Your Mother) Amy Pietz (Desperate Housewives, The Office) Mary Kay Place (Big Love, Bored to Death) CCH Pounder (The Shield, Avatar) Bill Pullman (Lost Highway, Peacock) Zach Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes) Di Quon (Boston Public, Ghost Whisperer) Jackson Rathbone (Twilight, New Moon) Linus Roache (Bat Man Begins, Law & Order) Kali Rocha (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grey’s Anatomy) Miguel Sandoval (Medium, Entourage) Prunella Scales (Howard’s End, The Shell Seekers) Richard Schiff (The West Wing, In Plain Sight) Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!, Big Love) Lucy Sheen (Secrets & Lies) Talia Shire (The Godfather I, II, III, The Departed) Nina Siemaszko (The West Wing, Cold Case) Johnny Simmons (Hotel For Dogs, Scott Pilgram vs. the World) Ron Simons (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Night Catches Us) Amy Sloan (Gilmore Girls, Mad Men) Kurtwood Smith (That 70’s Show, 24) Roger Guenveur Smith (Summer of Sam, American Gangster) Keith Randolph Smith (Malcolm X, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) David Soul (Starsky and Hutch, Farewell) Joe Spano (NYPD Blue, NCIS) Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply) Belinda Stewart-Wilson (Primeval, The Inbetweeners) David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck, Howl) Brenda Strong (Nip/Tuck, Desperate Housewives) Julia Sweeney (Saturday Night Live, Frasier) Amber Tamblyn (The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, 127 Hours) Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under, Public Enemies) Jon Tenney (Without a Trace, The Closer) Stephen Tobolowsky (Heroes, Glee) Lorraine Toussaint (Ugly Betty, Saving Grace) Raviv Ullman (Phil of the Future, Spring Break ’83) Harriet Walter (Babel) Kevin Weisman (Alias, CSI: Miami) Michael T Weiss (The Pretender, Sex and the City 2) Brad Whitford (The West Wing, The Good Guys) Victor Williams (The King of Queens, Cop Land) Lynn Whitfield (Eve’s Bayou, Without a Trace) Robert Wisdom (The Wire, Burn Notice) Alfre Woodard (Desperate Housewives, True Blood) Sean Young (Bladerunner, The Young and the Restless) |
Our AuthorsSteve AlmondRussell Banks Richard Bausch Charles Baxter Aimee Bender T. Coraghessan Boyle Kevin Brockmeier Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Ron Carlson Raymond Carver Dan Chaon Terri Cheney Will Cohu Anthony Doerr Samantha Dunn Amy Ephron Nelson Eubanks Anne Fadiman Roshi Fernando Paula Fox David Francis Ian Frazier Judith Freeman Mary Gaitskill Linzi Glass Tod Goldberg Adam Gopnik Mary Gordon Donald Hall Ryan Harty Amy Hempel Nick Hornby Ha Jin Dylan Landis Richard Lange Michelle Latiolais Don Lee Yiyun Li Hilary Mantel Maile Meloy Rick Moody Manuel Muñoz Susan Orlean Julie Orringer Mary Otis ZZ Packer Scott Phillips Melissa Pritchard Holiday Reinhorn Mark Richard Luis J. Rodriguez Karen Russell James Salter Jim Shepard Marisa Silver Mona Simpson MaryYukari Waters Brad Watson John Edgar Wideman Tobias Wolff Gerard Woodward |