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Selected Shorts Hosted by Patricia Kalember Scaffolding Man by Jenny Allen Performed by Rita Wolf Love Interest by Jess Walter Performed by Patricia Kalember and Bhavesh Patel Persephone Rides at the End of Days by Carmen Maria Machado Performed by Rita Wolf Such Small Islands by Lauren Groff Performed by Patricia Kalember Almost Everything by Etgar Keret Translated by Jessica Cohen Performed by Bhavesh Patel Selected Shorts made a book!
In celebration of our 35th anniversary, we commissioned 35 brand-new short stories. Purchase Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories in the lobby today, or from your local independent bookstore or online retailer. These stories were commissioned by Symphony Space for the collection Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories, edited by Hannah Tinti, published by Algonquin Books. © 2022 by Symphony Space. Selected Shorts is supported by the Dungannon Foundation, creator of The Rea Award for the Short Story. Support is also provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust, The Shubert Foundation, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, the Charina Endowment Fund, The Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Henry Nias Foundation, the Consolidated Edison Company of New York, the Vidda Foundation, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the Lemberg Foundation, and The Grodzins Fund. Selected Shorts is also made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Symphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.
The Artists Jenny Allen is a writer and performer whose works include the fable collection The Long Chalkboard and, most recently, Would Everybody Please Stop?, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. She wrote and starred in the award-winning one-woman show I Got Sick Then I Got Better. Allen’s writing has been featured in several anthologies, including Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from the New Yorker and The 50 Funniest American Writers, edited by Andy Borowitz. Jessica Cohen is a freelance translator based in Denver. She translates contemporary Israeli prose and other creative work. In 2017, she shared the Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman, for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar. She also translated works by other major Israeli writers, including Etgar Keret, Amos Oz, Ronit Matalon, and Nir Baram. She is past board member of the American Literary Translators Association. Lauren Groff is the author of six books, including Fates and Furies and Florida, both of which were finalists for the National Book Award; her latest, the novel Matrix, was published in September 2021. She is a winner of the Story Prize, a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2017, she was named one of the Best of Young American Novelists by the literary magazine Granta. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Patricia Kalember’s stage credits include The White Card, The Nerd, Losing Louie, Y2k, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Sea of Tranquility, Loose Knit, and From Above. She played the role of Gloria Steinem in Gloria: A Life in New York and Boston. She received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for her role in the original cast of The Foreigner. On television, she's had recurring roles on The Tick, Power, thirtysomething, and starred in Sisters. Other television credits include Law & Order: SVU, Power, Orange Is the New Black, Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods, Allegiance,
Madam Secretary, Veep, The Good Wife, and the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge. Her numerous films include Jacob’s Ladder, Path to War, A Far Off Place, Signs, Rabbit Hole, The Company Men, Limitless, Girl Most Likely, and Run All Night. Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A recipient of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, he is the author of the memoir The Seven Good Years and story collections including Fly Already; The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God; The Nimrod Flipout; and Suddenly, a Knock on the Door. His work has been translated into over 45 languages and appeared in The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Paris Review, and The New York Times, among other publications. Bhavesh Patel most recently appeared on Broadway in The Nap at MTC and Present Laughter, opposite Kevin Kline. Additional theater credits include War Horse and Hayden's Seven Last Words at Lincoln Center, Indian Ink at Roundabout, and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Public's Shakespeare in the Park. Additionally, he has appeared at Second Stage, Classic Stage Company, Red Bull Theater, and the New York Theatre Workshop. His television and film credits include Chicago PD, Law & Order SVU, New Amsterdam, Little America, Bull, The Blacklist, Jon Glazer Loves Gear, Madame Secretary, Mysteries of Laura, The Good Wife, The Sound of Silence, Gold, Wilding, Two Days in New York, James White, Maiden Heist, The Weekend, and You Should Have the Body. Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the National Book Award finalist short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties; the bestselling memoir In the Dream House; and the limited-run comic series The Low, Low Woods. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, the Believer, McSweeney’s, Guernica, and elsewhere.
Jess Walter is the author of seven novels, most recently the 2020 national bestseller The Cold Millions. Among his other novels are Beautiful Ruins, a 2012 #1 New York Times bestseller; The Zero, a 2006 finalist for the National Book Award; and Citizen Vince, winner of the 2005 Edgar Award. His short fiction has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, as well as Harpers, Esquire, and many others, and is collected in the books We Live in Water (2013) and the forthcoming The Angel of Rome and Other Stories. Rita Wolf most recently appeared in Out of Time with the National Asian American Theatre Company at The Public Theater. She was also featured in What Happened? The Michaels Abroad, written and directed by Richard Nelson at the Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College, and The Michaels at The Public. Additional theater credits include An Ordinary Muslim at The New York Theatre Workshop, The American Pilot at the Manhattan Theatre Club, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and the premiere of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul at New York Theatre Workshop and later at BAM.
Symphony Space Staff Executive Director: Kathy Landau Founding Artistic Director: Isaiah Sheffer* Managing Director: Peggy Wreen Director of Literary Programs: Jennifer Brennan Lead Producer of Literary Programs: Drew Richardson Producer of Literary Programs: Vivienne Woodward Consultant for Literary Programs: Matthew Love Program Assistant, Literature & Education - Magdalene Wrobleski *In memoriam
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PERFORMING ARTS CENTER HOUSE POLICIES Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the management and its staff. . The use of photographic or recording devices of any kind during this performance is strictly prohibited. . There is no food or drink allowed in the theatres, nor is smoking allowed in UAlbany buildings. . To avoid disrupting the performance, kindly disable any noise making electronic devices you may have with you. . Please take time to note the location of the fire exits nearest to you. In the event of an emergency, please proceed to the nearest exit in an orderly fashion and follow the directions of our staff.
Created and produced by the University Art Museum, NYS Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center in collaboration with WAMC Public Radio, this popular series features leading figures from a variety of artistic disciplines in conversation about their creative inspirations, their craft and their careers. “Roundtable” host Joe Donahue conducts live on-stage interviews followed by a Q&A with the audience.
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