Mia Dillon, Daniel Gerroll, and David Rakoff will read short fiction in
Selected Shorts at the Westport Country Playhouse on Tuesday, November 14th at 7:30 PM.
The show is a live version of the National Public Radio's program of the same name. The performance will be recorded for future broadcast.
Dillon will read "How to Talk to a Hunter" by Pam Houston, Gerroll will lend his voice to "Honeymoon in Tramore" by William Trevor, and Rakoff will bring to life "A Ride with Olympy" by James Thurber.
Mia Dillon has appeared on Broadway in
Our Town,
Crimes of the Heart (Tony nomination),
The Miser,
Once a Catholic, and
Agnes of God, among others. She will soon appear Off-Broadway in
Strings, which opens in December at the 78th Street Theatre Lab.
Daniel Gerroll's Broadway credits include
Plenty,
Enchanted April,
The Homecoming,
High Society, and
Slab Boys. He won an OBIE for appearing in Off-Broadway's
The Shaughraun.
David Rakoff is the author of the books
Fraud and
Don't Get Too Comfortable. A regular contributor to GQ, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and Public Radio International's
This American Life, his writing has also appeared in Salon, Slate, and Vogue.
The show will be directed by
Isaiah Sheffer.
Now in its 20th season,
Selected Shorts is heard locally in New York on Saturdays at 3 PM on WSHU (FM 91.1).
Tickets to
Selected Shorts are $15, $20, and $25, and are available at
www.wesportartscenter.org, or by calling (203) 227-41777 or (888) 927-7529.
