The spotlight moves in mysterious ways…. Author, performer, and video-maker Dylan Marron (Conversations with People Who Hate Me) explores what it means to be recognized—and the thin line that separates celebrity and notoriety. With stories from Kenneth Calhoun, Tania James, Jade Jones, and Fiona Maazel and performances by Moses Ingram (The Queen's Gambit), John Cameron Mitchell (Shrill), Josh Radnor (Hunters), Miriam Shor (Younger), and more.
Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy.
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Kenneth Calhoun has published stories in The Paris Review, Tin House, New Stories from the South, Fence Magazine, Fiction International, St. Petersburg Review, Quick Fiction, and others. He is a recipient of the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction and a winner of the Summer Literary Seminars/Fence Magazine Fiction Contest. Calhoun is the author of the novel Black Moon.
Moses Ingram is an actress and writer, known for her performances in
Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, she has been
featured in productions of Sweat, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, and Marty and
the Hands that Could. In 2018, she was honored with the Princess Grace Award in
Theater. Ingram wrote the screenplay for the short film Day 74 and will be seen in the
upcoming feature MacBeth, directed by Joel Cohen and starring Denzel Washington
and Frances McDormand.
Tania James is the author of the novels Atlas of Unknowns and The Tusk that Did the Damage, both ofwhich were named New York Times Editor’s Choice and Best Book for The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR; and the short story collection Aerogrammes, which was a Best Book of 2012 for Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories have appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Kenyon Review, One Story, and A Public Space. James has been a fellow of Ragdale, MacDowell, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. She teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University.
Jade Jones discovered her passion for creative writing in elementary school. Born in 1989, she began writing short stories and poetry as an outlet. Later on, as a teen, she led a troubled life which later resulted in her becoming a ward of the court. Jones fell in love with the art and used storytelling as a means of venting during her tumultuous times. She is the best-selling author of a number of series, including Cameron, Back Page, Ebony & Ivory,Fixation, Wife of a Misfit, Pretty Young Things, and several stand-alone novels.
Dylan Marron is an IFP Gotham Award & Drama Desk-nominated writer, performer, and video maker. He is the voice of Carlos on the hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale, an alum of the New York Neo Futurists, and the creator of Every Single Word, a video series that edits down popular films to only feature the words spoken by people of color. As a writer and correspondent at Seriously.tv, Marron created, hosted, and produced Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Shutting Down Bullsh*t, and the Unboxing series. He hosts and produces Conversations with People Who Hate Me, which was selected as a Podcast Pick by USA Today and The Guardian, named "The Timeliest Podcast" by FastCompany, and won a Webby Award. Marron recently gave a TED Talk and is currently writing Snowflake, which will be published in 2022.
Fiona Maazel is the author of the novels A Little More Human, Woke Up Lonely,and Last Last Chance. She is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction, and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2017, Book Forum, Conjunctions, Harper’s, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Salon, Selected Shorts, This American Life, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is the Director of Communications for Measures for Justice.
John Cameron Mitchell is the co-creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
He also directed the films Shortbus, Rabbit Hole, and How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
His TV acting credits include Shrill, Girls, Mozart in the Jungle, and The Good Fight.
He's toured internationally with The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig.
Mitchell is the co-creator of the musical podcast series Anthem: Homunculus with Bryan
Weller, featuring himself, Glenn Close, Denis O'Hare, Patti Lupone, Cynthia Erivo, and
Nakhane. His ongoing music project is New American Dream, a collaboration with Ezra
Furman, Alynda Segarra, Wynton Marsalis, and many others.
Josh Radnor is best known for his leading role on the CBS Emmy-nominated series
How I Met Your Mother. Following its nine-year run, he starred in the PBS Civil War drama
Mercy Street and in the series Rise. As a filmmaker, he wrote, directed, and starred in
happythankyoumoreplease and Liberal Arts, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film
Festival to great acclaim, the former winning the 2010 Audience Award. Additional films include
Social Animals, The Seeker, and Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight. His theater credits include the
Broadway run of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced and the world premiere
of Richard Greenberg’s The Babylon Line at Lincoln Center, as well as Little Shop of Horrors at
The Kennedy Center. He also writes and records music with his friend Ben Lee as the duo
Radnor & Lee. Radnor is currently featured on Amazon’s Hunters.
Miriam Shor recently starred in the hit Paramount Network series Younger, for which
she has received a Critics’ Choice nomination. Additional television credits include notable roles in
The Americans, for which she earned a SAG nomination, The Good Wife, GCB, Swingtown, Mildred Pierce, and Damages.
On stage, Shor has starred in productions of Merrily We Roll Along, Almost, Maine, Scarcity, The
Wild Party, and Sweat. She made her off-Broadway debut in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and also
starred in the film adaptation. Shor can currently be seen in Lost Girls, Mrs. America,
Before/During/After, and The Midnight Sky. Upcoming projects include Magic Hour.
Selected Shorts is supported by the Dungannon Foundation, sponsor of The Rea Award for the Short Story. Support is also provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust, The Shubert Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, The Scherman Foundation, the Henry Nias Foundation, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the Lemberg Foundation, and The Grodzins Fund. Selected Shorts is also made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Symphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.
