SELECTED SHORTS: SIBLING REVELRY WITH LACEY LAMAR AND AMBER RUFFIN
WED, JUN 11
Hosted by Lacey Lamar and Amber Ruffin
My Little Sister Texts Me with Her Problems by Jesse Eisenberg
Performed by Lacey Lamar and Amber Ruffin
What Rises Beneath by Jess Walter
Performed by Michel Gill
The Ugly Sister by Joanne Harris
Performed by Jayne Atkinson
I Love Betty by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Performed by Nathan Hinton
Underwater by Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Performed by Marin Ireland
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Due to a scheduling conflict, Merritt Wever will no longer appear at this event.
The Artists (in alphabetical order)
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Jayne Atkinson
Jayne Atkinson is best known for her long-running roles on the television series 24, Criminal Minds, Bluff City Law, and House of Cards. A two-time Tony nominee, she has appeared on Broadway in All My Sons,...
Jayne Atkinson is best known for her long-running roles on the television series 24, Criminal Minds, Bluff City Law, and House of Cards. A two-time Tony nominee, she has appeared on Broadway in All My Sons, The Rainmaker, Ivanov, Enchanted April, for which she won an Outer Critics Circle Award, and Blithe Spirit. Additional film and television credits include Death and Other Details, Clarice, Baby Ruby, The Good Wife, Law & Order, The Education of Max Bickford, Syriana, Recount, Free Willy, and The Village. Onstage, Atkinson was recently honored with an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in Lea Romeo's Still at DR2 Theatre in New York City.
Michel Gill
Michel Gill is known for his roles in the television series The Dropout, The Gilded Age, Nova Vita, God Friended Me, Chicago Med, House of Cards, Mr. Robot, The Get Down, and Ray...
Michel Gill is known for his roles in the television series The Dropout, The Gilded Age, Nova Vita, God Friended Me, Chicago Med, House of Cards, Mr. Robot, The Get Down, and Ray Donovan. Additional film and television credits include The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Forever, Everything, Affliction, Condemned, and Who Killed JonBenét? Gill has been featured on numerous regional stages, including off-Broadway in Speaking in Tongues, A Winter’s Tale, Naked, Othello, Lincoln Portrait, Da Caravaggio, and Coyote Ugly, and on Broadway in A Man For All Seasons.
Nathan Hinton
Nathan Hinton began his professional career at the Joseph Papp Public Theater and has played major and supporting roles with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Pittsburgh Public Theater; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Triad Stage;...
Nathan Hinton began his professional career at the Joseph Papp Public Theater and has played major and supporting roles with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Pittsburgh Public Theater; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Triad Stage; Berkeley Rep; Dallas Theatre Center; the Huntington; Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; and The Working Theater. He was a member of the first national touring company of Angels in America and won the Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theatre as part of the ensemble of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out with the Philadelphia Theatre Company. His film and television credits include Madam Secretary, Manifest, The Code, FBI: Most Wanted, Walking Home: A Survival Guide, The Equalizer, and Evil. Hinton is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Marin Ireland
Marin Ireland is a Theatre World and Obie Award winner and has been nominated for multiple Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critic, and Broadway League awards. She was also nominated for a Tony for Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty. Her film...
Marin Ireland is a Theatre World and Obie Award winner and has been nominated for multiple Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critic, and Broadway League awards. She was also nominated for a Tony for Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty. Her film credits include Glass Chin and Eileen—she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for both, Hell or High Water, The Irishman, The Man in the Woods, The Dark and the Wicked, Light from Light, The Empty Man, 28 Hotel Rooms, The Boogeyman, Birth/Rebirth, and Somewhere Quiet. On television, Ireland has been featured on Sneaky Pete, Y: The Last Man, The Umbrella Academy, Girls, Masters of Sex, Homeland, Feud, Justified: City Primeval, Dope Thief, and The Terror. Forthcoming screen projects include Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, His & Hers, and Materialists.
Lacey Lamar
Lacey Lamar is Amber Ruffin's beautiful big sister and New York Times bestselling author of You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism, written with sister Amber. She has worked in healthcare and human...
Lacey Lamar is Amber Ruffin's beautiful big sister and New York Times bestselling author of You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism, written with sister Amber. She has worked in healthcare and human services for more than 25 years, 13 of those with troubled young women in her community. She volunteers her time and resources to marginalized people in any way she can. Lacey loves the challenge of creating safe spaces for the celebration of Nerd/African-American culture.
Amber Ruffin
Amber Ruffin is an Emmy, Tony, and WGA Award–nominated writer and performer for NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. She hosted the Emmy, Critics' Choice, and WGA Award–nominated The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. Ruffin was the first African...
Amber Ruffin is an Emmy, Tony, and WGA Award–nominated writer and performer for NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. She hosted the Emmy, Critics' Choice, and WGA Award–nominated The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. Ruffin was the first African American female to write for a late-night network talk show in the U.S. She has written and performed on shows such as Detroiters, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Drunk History. Ruffin has written for the Emmys, Golden Globes, and Tonys. She was previously a performer at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam and iO Theater and Second City in Chicago. Ruffin is a New York Times bestselling author, along with her sister Lacey Lamar, of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism. She co-wrote the most Tony-nominated musical of 2022, Some Like it Hot, and wrote the book for the Broadway revival of The Wiz. Both shows are currently touring America.
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The AUTHORS (in alphabetical order)
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Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg is an actor, filmmaker, and writer. He wrote, directed, and starred in the buddy comedy A Real Pain, which earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and an Academy Award nomination in the same category....
Jesse Eisenberg is an actor, filmmaker, and writer. He wrote, directed, and starred in the buddy comedy A Real Pain, which earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and an Academy Award nomination in the same category. In 2022, he made his film directorial debut with the black comedy When You Finish Saving the World. He is a regular contributor for The New Yorker and McSweeney’s and author of the plays Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils, which won the Theatre Visions Fund Award, and the short story collection Bream Gives Me Hiccups. Eisenberg’s numerous acting credits include The Social Network, Now You See Me, Adventureland, The Squid and the Whale, The Double, The End of the Tour, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Cafe Society, The Hummingbird Project, the Justice League franchise, Zombieland: Double Tap, Resistance, Manodrome, Sasquatch Sunset, and Fleishman Is in Trouble.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of two novels: We Love You, Charlie Freeman, which was named one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Books of 2016 and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and Libertie...
Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of two novels: We Love You, Charlie Freeman, which was named one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Books of 2016 and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and Libertie, which was named one of the most anticipated books of 2022 by, among other publications, The Washington Post, Time, and The New York Times. Greenidge is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Currently the Features Director at Harper’s Bazaar, Greenidge's third novel is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.
Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of eighteen novels, plus novellas, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, and articles, including a self-help book for writers, Ten Things About Writing. In 2000, her 1999...
Joanne Harris is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of eighteen novels, plus novellas, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, and articles, including a self-help book for writers, Ten Things About Writing. In 2000, her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and is Chair of the Society of Authors. Her latest novel, the thriller Broken Light, was published in 2023, and her forthcoming novel, Vianne, will be published in September.
Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Hannah Kingsley-Ma is a writer and audio producer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The New York Times, The New Republic, ZYZZYVA, The Believer, and more.
Jess Walter
Jess Walter is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award for best...
Jess Walter is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Rome and We Live in Water, has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories. His latest novel, So Far Gone, was published on June 10th.
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MORE INFORMATION
“My Little Sister Texts Me with Her Problems,” by Jesse Eisenberg, from Bream Gives Me Hiccups: and Other Stories (Grove Press, 2015). Copyright © 2015 by Jesse Eisenberg. Used by permission of Creative Artists Agency.
“What Rises Beneath,” by Jess Walter, as published in The Spokesman-Review (September 6, 2020). Copyright © 2020 by Jess Walter. Used by permission of the author.
“The Ugly Sister,” by Joanne Harris, from Jigs & Reels (William Morrow, 2004). Copyright © Frogspawn Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the author ℅ Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
“I Love Betty,” by Kaitlyn Greenidge. Copyright © by Kaitlyn Greenidge. Used by permission of the author and Howland Literary.
“Underwater,” by Hannah Kingsley-Ma, as published in The Drift (Issue 13, July 19, 2024). Copyright © 2024 by Hannah Kingsley-Ma. Adapted version of the text used by permission of the author and The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Selected Shorts is supported by the Dungannon Foundation, creator of The Rea Award for the Short Story.
Symphony Space’s season of programming is also made possible by the generous support of the Seedlings Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Charina Endowment Fund, Charles D. Fleischman Charitable Trust, Susan Bay Nimoy, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, PECO Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, Michael Tuch Foundation, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation, The Grodzins Fund, The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America, and Theatre Development Fund.
Programming is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul 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.
Floral design by PlantShed.
Kathy Landau Executive Director
Peg Wreen Managing Director
Isaiah Sheffer*
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1990)
Artistic Director (1990-2010)
Founding Artistic Director (2010-2012)
Allan Miller
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1990)
Jennifer Brennan Director of Literary Programs
Drew Richardson Lead Producer of Literary Programs
Vivienne Woodward Senior Producer of Literary Programs
Mary Shimkin Director of Broadcast & Literary Initiatives
Sarah Montague Selected Shorts Radio Producer
Miles B. Smith Selected Shorts Recording Engineer
Matthew Love Consultant for Literary Programs
Magdalene Wrobleski Program Associate
Leigh Reid Literary Intern
Mia Testa Literary Intern
*in memoriam
