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.
This week, in the aftermath of these deadly fires, we continue to honor Los Angeles by sharing another story from our WORDTheatre event, Somos Los Angeles: Chicano Hearts. "Sábado Gigante," by Estella Gonzalez is a poignant coming of age story set in East Los Angeles, and it was beautifully read by actor Remy Ortiz. We now have the pleasure of welcoming a woman who was born and raised in East Los Angeles, Estella Gonzalez, author of the acclaimed short story collection Chola Salvation and the novel Huizache Women, to introduce her story.
ESTELLA INTRO
Remy Ortiz is a prolific theatre actor whom you may recognize from his television appearances 9-1-1, American Horror Story, and The Rookie.
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Here now is Remy Ortiz performing "Sábado Gigante" by Estella Gonzalez.
SÁBADO GIGANTE PLAYS
Thank you for listening to Remy Ortiz' s performance of "Sábado Gigante" by Estella Gonzalez.
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WORDTheatre has a very a exciting program of events in 2025, starting with our Author Actor Series on January 28th in NYC with authors Jill Mc Corkle and Pamela Painter being performed by Carla Gugino and Cassidy Freeman, our collaboration with ALOUD in Los Angeles featuring Walter Mosely's newest novel on February 26th with Glynn Turnman and Marla Gibbs, and our sold-out London production at the Old Vic featuring our adaptation of Harriet Walter's new book, SHE SPEAKS! WHAT SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN MIGHT HAVE SAID with a gorgeous cast including Juliet Stevenson, Olivia WIlliams, MyAnna Buring, Rosaling Eleazar, Leah Harvey and Meera Syal, plus the one and only Lizzie Ball on violin on March 6th. For more information, please visit our websites wordtheatre.org and wordtheatreuk.org /events.
As always, on behalf of Kirsty Peart, my UK producing partner and myself, we'd like to thank Philanthropist/Benefactor, Ola Strom, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Randy & Jane Sinisi and Phiphen Studios | Post NJ, our US Board of Directors and our UK Trustees, and our WORDTheatre Members! Thank you everyone for your ongoing support and if you are not yet a member, help keep us going by signing up at WORDTheatre.org/Membership/
Thank you to the WORDTheatre staff and the WORDTheatre Team, which includes our most beloved interns and a special shout out to our podcast editor, Sererino Villanueva
We hope you wilI do whatever you can to help support the people of Los Angeles who have lost everything.
Until next week, this is Cedering Fox, signing off!!