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Each week, WORDTheatre® shares a brilliant short story performed live in LA, NY or London by a great actor, usually with the author in the room to hear their story being brought to life. Like what you hear? Visit WORDTheatre.org/Membership/ or if you are near the UK, visit WORDTheatreUK.org to enjoy live events and recordings by becoming a Patron or Enthusiast Member! WORDTheatre® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the US and a Dual Charitable Trust in the UK. We are on a mission to make a better world one story at a time.
Hello and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story
Podcast where great authors and actors meet! I’m your host, Cedering Fox,
WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director.
Happy Valentine's Day! In honor of this beautiful holiday, we have two love stories for you to enjoy. We will start with a bittersweet love story titled “Keith,” written by Ron Carlson, and performed by Elizabeth Mc Govern. We will close this episode on a high note with a little Ron Carlson gem,, “Two Reasons,” performed by Alex Wolff at a benefit for The Pushcart Prize in East Hampton several years ago! Ron has been honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Award, and the Ploughshares Cohen Prize.
Before we get started, please note that WORDTheatre holds the copyright to these recordings and no portion of anything you hear on WORDTheatre Weekly, our short story podcast, may be reproduced without permission.
We are honored to have author Ron Carlson, a longtime WORDTheatre participant, here to introduce both of his stories. Please welcome Ron Carlson.
CARLSON INTRODUCES KEITH.
And now, here is Elizabeth McGovern performing “Keith.”
MCGOVERN PERFORMS THE PIECE.
We hope you enjoyed Elizabeth’s reading of “Keith.” Ron will now introduce his story, “Two Reasons.”
CARLSON INTRODUCES TWO REASONS.
Now, here is Alex Wolff performing “Two Reasons.”
WOLFF PERFORMS THE PIECE.
You have just heard "Keith” and “Two Reasons” by Ron Carlson, performed by Elizabeth McGovern and Alex Wolff.
If you'd like to purchase books by the authors that you hear on this podcast, visit bookshop.org/shop/wordtheatre to support two nonprofits.
If you’re in LA on March 19th, we welcome you to join us for The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe, an exhilarating fusion of music, stories, poems, myths and scientific wonders, featuring an all-star cast of actors and musicians! We hope to see as many of you as possible for this celebration and call to action. You can find more information at wherethemusicmeetsthesoul.com/wordtheatre, or you can visit the wordtheatre website at wordtheatre.org/events.
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On behalf of my UK producing partner Kirsty Peart and myself, Thank you to the LA Department of Arts & Culture, and Jane Oster Sinisi and her new company, Palisades Post. I’d also like to thank our WORDTheatre team, who works so hard, and you, our audience! Thank you for listening.
Until next week, this is Cedering Fox, signing off!