"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
Novel and Memoir Beginnings
January 11, 2009 @ M Bar
 Xander Berkeley |
 Corena Chase |
 Sarah Clarke |
 Daniel Hepner |
 Nichelle Hines |
 Brian Howe |
 Amy Sloan |
 Kevin Weisman |
WordTheatre's fifth annual Novel and Memoir Beginnings featured
- Amy Sloan (Big Shots, Gilmore Girls) reading Terri Cheney's new memoir Crayons and Suicide
- Xander Berkeley (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Gattaca) reading Ron Carlson's new novel The Signal
- Daniel Hepner reading David Francis' new novel Stray Dog Winter
- Nichelle Hines (Ocean's Twelve, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman) reading Pami Osaki's new novel Drowning
- Corena Chase (Scrubs) reading Deirdre Shaw's new novel Love or Something Like It
- Brian Howe (Gran Torino, The Pursuit of Happiness) reading William Petrick's new novel The Five Lost Days
- Kevin Weisman (Alias, Illusion) reading Richard Lange's new novel This Wicked World
- Sarah Clarke (Thirteen, 24) reading Samantha Dunn's Trailer Trash
Directed by Cedering Fox
Produced by Cedering Fox and Lisa Doctor
Photography by Aurora Tang
Photo Gallery
Corena Chase
Terri Cheney watching her memoir read by Amy Sloan
Kevin Weisman
Xander Berkeley
Group Shot
Location
M Bar1253 North Vine (SW corner of Vine and Fountain) Hollywood