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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.
Greetings and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story Podcast where great authors and actors meet! My name is Willow, and I’ll be your host this week. I’m a Literary Research and Events Intern here at WORDTheatre, a recent graduate of Emerson College, and when I grow up I want to continue working in Literary Arts.
Our newest show, The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe debuts this weekend at The Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, England. For this week’s episode of WORDTheatre Weekly, we’ve got two more ocean stories to celebrate the debut of the show.
This week, you’ll have the pleasure of listening to “Maybe Mermaids & Robots are Lonely” by Matthew Fogarty and “Water Names” by Lan Samantha Chang. “Maybe Mermaids & Robots are Lonely” was performed by Willie Garson, who starred in the television show Sex and the City. The story “Water Names” was performed in 2009 by Di Quon, who has appeared in the films Grown Ups and Maid in Manhattan.
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.
Here now, is “Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely” and “Water Names.”
GARSON AND QUON PERFORM THE STORIES.
Again, you have just heard “Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely” by Matthew Fogarty and “Water Names” by Lan Samantha Chang.
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WORDTheatre’s original production, The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe, will debut at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, England on August 3rd. The performance will feature poems, play excerpts, music, and original writing to celebrate the beauty of the Earth’s ocean. Created with support from Ocean Rising, this event aims to encourage us all to rise up for the ocean. Keep up with us on WORDTheatre.org, or if you’re based in the UK, visit WORDTheatreUK.org for more information on our great productions.
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On behalf of Kirsty Peart and Cedering Fox, thank you to the LA Department of Arts & Culture, and Jane Oster Sinisi and Phiphen Studios for their ongoing support, executive coordinator Scout Riley, and our script writer Alex Kauffman, and our podcast editor Alyssa Monteiro. This is Willow, signing off.