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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.
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, we’ll be sharing the fourth and final performance from our last Manhattan event, Growing Pains. Thomas Sadoski, whom you probably recognize from HBO’s The Newsroom and CBS’s Life in Pieces, made his WORDTheatre debut performing “The Sliding Door” by Jess Row, which will appear in Jess’s short story collection, Storyknife, set to release on August 11, 2026. Jess is another author whom we scouted from the Pushcart Prize; he is a gifted writer with many impressive accolades to his name, among them the PEN / O. Henry Award, Guggenheim Fellowship and obviously Pushcart.
It was a treat to share a sneak peek of Storyknife with a great audience at a very special location in Gramercy Park, and now, with all of you! Thank you to Jess and to Ecco Press & Harper Collins for making this all possible.
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And now, here is Thomas Sadoski performing “The Sliding Door” by Jess Row.
SADOSKI PERFORMS THE PIECE.
You’ve just heard Thomas Sadoski perform “The Sliding Door” by Jess Row.
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I’d like to begin by thanking Randy & Jane Sinisi & their Palisades Post for their incredibly generous ongoing support. We’d also like to thank the LA Department of Arts & Culture, who for many years have been supporting the production of this podcast and to them also are very grateful. And to you, our listeners, we'd like to say thanks!
Until next week, this is Cedering Fox, signing off!