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Transcript of "Lost and Found" and "Condemned" Episode on WORDTheatre's Saturday Stories
CEDERING FOX
Welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly where each Saturday we share stories from our archive of performances of the world's best short stories, recorded live in LA, New York and London, often with the authors in the room!
I’m your host, WORDTheatre Founder & Artistic Director Cedering Fox.
Please note that WORDTheatre holds the copyright to these recordings so no portion of anything you hear may be reproduced without permission.
We have been doing the WORDTheatre short story podcast for 3 years now and we would love to get some feedback from you, our listeners. Simply shoot us an email at admin@wordtheatre,org with any comments or requests!
Today we are bringing you two very short stories by John Edgar Wideman from his collection Briefs, Stories for the Palm of the Mind. They were performed by 2024 Oscar nominees, Sterling K. Brown and Colman Domingo.
Sterling is nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the film American Fiction. Would you believe that I introduced Sterling and Percival Everett at WORDTheatre? If you don't know, Percival is the author of the novel which American Fiction is based. We shared Sterling's reading of Percival's Alluvial Deposits, a few weeks ago on this very podcast and you can still listen to it for a few more weeks right here!
Colman Domingo, who has read John Edgar Wideman's stories brilliantly in both Manhattan and East Hampton, is nominated for Best Actor in a leading role for his performance in Rustin. These two are simply phenomenal!
Have you ever been so smitten by someone you can’t stop thinking about them no matter how hard you try? John Edgar Wideman, tells it like it is and like nobody else can. Get ready for “Lost and Found” performed by t Sterling K. Brown…
Lost and Found plays…
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Our Second story offers up the comedic perspective of a man who has been sitting on death row and is about to take his turn. Here is Condemned performed by the one and only Colman Domingo.
Condemned plays…
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If you are enjoying tuning into WORDTheatre WEEKLY you’ll find books by the authors we feature at Bookshop.Org/shop/wordtheatre!Thanks for tuning intoday.. We are honored to have featured these two extraordinary actors at WORDTheatre and we will be rooting for them this year at the Oscars!
A special shoutout to philanthropist benefactor Ola Strom for believing in WORDTheatre all of these years. Thanks to Glass Animals for our theme music as well as the LA County Department of Arts and culture for their ongoing support. Thank you to our interns, our executive assistant Scout Riley, and our podcast editor Jason Lee! Head over to Wordtheatre.org to learn more and join the WORDTheatre family, we would love to have you! Until next week I’m Cedering Fox signing off!