"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 Supporters
Who We Are
Melissa Loftus, Managing Director
Kirsty Peart, UK Partner
Darrell Larson, NYC Associate Producer
Our Board
Ron Carlson
Author of eight books of fiction, his short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and dozens of other anthologies. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.Cedering Fox
Cedering Fox is the Founder and Artistic Director of WordTheatre® and in 2007, she was nominated for the United States Artists Fellowship for her work with the organization. She is one of the industry's preeminent voice-over artists (www.cederingfox.com).James Franco
Successful actor, director, writer and painter. Credits include 'Eat Pray Love', 'Date Night', 'Milk', 'Pineapple Express', 'James Dean', 'Spider Man 1,2 & 3' and 'Flyboys', to name a few.April Webster
2006 Recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Casting Profession. Casting credits include "Mission Impossible III," "The Day After Tomorrow," "Criminal Minds," "Lost," "Alias,"Paula Silver
Has more than 20 years experience in the developing, producing and marketing of motion pictures.Deborah Del Prete
A veteran producer as well as director, Deborah Del Prete is co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Odd Lot Entertainment. Since 2001 her business partner and she have shepherded the growth of the L.A.-based development, finance and production company, which works in film as well as theatre. Del Prete is a longtime past treasurer of the board of directors for the New York chapter of Women In Film. She was an artistic advocate for the foundation of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and serves as an executive mentor for both the Producers Guild of America and Step Up Women's Network.Leslie M. Werlin
A partner in the Los Angeles office of McGuireWoods specializing in complex business litigation. Mr. Werlin is graduate of UCLA and UCLA Law School and is currently a member of the State Bar of California Committee on Administration of Justice (Southern Section). For the last several years, he has been a volunteer and supporter of the Reading To Kids program in Los AngelesHonorary Board
In addition to our Board of Directors, WordTheatre has a dedicated Honorary Board and Artistic Council made up of actors and writers who firmly believe in WordTheatre's mission. They remain ever willing to give their time, words and resources over and over again in order to help WordTheatre be the best that it can be.
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Aimee Bender T.C. Boyle Marcia Gay Harden Samantha Mathis |
Rick Moody Jane Oster (chairperson) Bill Pullman |
Amanda Seyfried Tobias Wolff |
Artistic Council
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Steve Almond Russell Banks Brian Cox Dana Delany Lisa Doctor Gary Dourdan Chris Gorham Donald Hall |
John Heard Peter Horton Darrell Larson Roma Maffia Julianna Margulies Ming-Na Wen Taylor Negron Pamela Painter |
Elizabeth Perkins Melissa Pritchard Sally Robinson Luis Rodriguez Miguel Sandoval Richard Schiff Mona Simpson Jon Tenney |