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Guest host Cynthia Nixon presents two stories in which people go overboard to demonstrate their devotion. In Robin Hemley’s “A Printer’s Tale,” a poet’s boyfriend hijacks a national magazine for her love—and one reader isn’t pleased. Robert Sean Leonard brings an eccentric trio to life. In “Oh Shenandoah” by Maura Stanton, a determined young woman wants to call it quits with her overzealous fiancé. But they’re in Venice—and there’s this toilet seat problem. Broadway powerhouse Kelli O’Hara reads—and sings—“Oh Shenandoah.”
ACTORS & ARTISTS
Robin Hemley is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction works, including the novel The Last Studebaker, the short story collections All You Can Eat, The Big Ear, and Reply All, and the nonfiction books Turning Life into Fiction, Nola, Invented Eden, DO-OVER!, A Field Guide for Immersion Writing, and most recently, Borderline Citizen. His work has been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Independent Press Book Award, among others. He has held residencies at institutions including the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and The MacDowell Colony. Hemley is the founder of NonfictioNOW, an international conference for literary nonfiction, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa. He currently serves as the director of the writing program and Writers’ Centre at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.
Robert Sean Leonard won a Tony Award for his performance in The Invention of Love and earned nominations for his work in Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Candida. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Speed of Darkness, Arcadia, The Iceman Cometh, The Music Man, Sunday in the Park with George, and At Home at the Zoo, among other roles both on and off-Broadway. His film credits include Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Swing Kids, Much Ado About Nothing, The Age of Innocence, In the Gloaming, The Last Days of Disco, The Killer, Tape, and A Painted House. Leonard’s television credits include featured roles on House, Falling Skies, the miniseries The Hot Zone, and The Good Doctor.
Cynthia Nixon made her film debut in Little Darlings at 12 years old and her Broadway debut at 14 in The Philadelphia Story. Since then she’s appeared in more than 40 plays, scores of films and television shows, and received 2 Emmys, 2 Tonys, and a Grammy Award. She is best known for her role as Miranda on HBO’s Sex and the City. In 2017, Nixon alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Laura Linney in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes on Broadway, winning her 2nd Tony Award. She also appeared on numerous "best actress of 2018" lists for her portrayal of American poet Emily Dickinson in Terrence Davies' much-lauded film A Quiet Passion. Also in 2018 she ran for Governor of New York state. She will be seen next in Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series Ratched opposite Sarah Paulson and Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age. Nixon spends a good portion of her off-time fighting for funding for New York public schools, abortion rights, and LGBT equality. She and her wife, Christine, have 3 children: Sam, Charlie, and Max.
Kelli O’Hara won a Tony Award for her performance as Anna in The King and I. She has appeared on Broadway in The Light in the Piazza; The Pajama Game; South Pacific; She Loves Me; Nice Work If You Can Get It; The Bridges of Madison County; and most recently, Kiss Me, Kate. She has also performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, on Capitol Hill, on PBS’s live telecasts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Her film and television credits include Sex and the City 2, Peter Pan Live!, Masters of Sex, The Good Fight, The Accidental Wolf, for which she received her first Emmy nomination, The Independents, 13 Reasons Why, and most recently, All the Bright Places.
Maura Stanton is the author of the novel Molly Companion, the short story collections The Country I Come From; Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling; Cities in the Sea, and the poetry collections Snow on Snow, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, Cries of Swimmers, Tales of the Supernatural, Glacier Wine, Life Among the Trolls, and most recently, Immortal Sofa. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Southwest Review, The Atlantic, Southern Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly, among other publications.
ACTORS & ARTISTS
Robin Hemley is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction works, including the novel The Last Studebaker, the short story collections All You Can Eat, The Big Ear, and Reply All, and the nonfiction books Turning Life into Fiction, Nola, Invented Eden, DO-OVER!, A Field Guide for Immersion Writing, and most recently, Borderline Citizen. His work has been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Independent Press Book Award, among others. He has held residencies at institutions including the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and The MacDowell Colony. Hemley is the founder of NonfictioNOW, an international conference for literary nonfiction, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa. He currently serves as the director of the writing program and Writers’ Centre at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.
Robert Sean Leonard won a Tony Award for his performance in The Invention of Love and earned nominations for his work in Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Candida. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Speed of Darkness, Arcadia, The Iceman Cometh, The Music Man, Sunday in the Park with George, and At Home at the Zoo, among other roles both on and off-Broadway. His film credits include Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Swing Kids, Much Ado About Nothing, The Age of Innocence, In the Gloaming, The Last Days of Disco, The Killer, Tape, and A Painted House. Leonard’s television credits include featured roles on House, Falling Skies, the miniseries The Hot Zone, and The Good Doctor.
Cynthia Nixon made her film debut in Little Darlings at 12 years old and her Broadway debut at 14 in The Philadelphia Story. Since then she’s appeared in more than 40 plays, scores of films and television shows, and received 2 Emmys, 2 Tonys, and a Grammy Award. She is best known for her role as Miranda on HBO’s Sex and the City. In 2017, Nixon alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Laura Linney in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes on Broadway, winning her 2nd Tony Award. She also appeared on numerous "best actress of 2018" lists for her portrayal of American poet Emily Dickinson in Terrence Davies' much-lauded film A Quiet Passion. Also in 2018 she ran for Governor of New York state. She will be seen next in Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series Ratched opposite Sarah Paulson and Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age. Nixon spends a good portion of her off-time fighting for funding for New York public schools, abortion rights, and LGBT equality. She and her wife, Christine, have 3 children: Sam, Charlie, and Max.
Kelli O’Hara won a Tony Award for her performance as Anna in The King and I. She has appeared on Broadway in The Light in the Piazza; The Pajama Game; South Pacific; She Loves Me; Nice Work If You Can Get It; The Bridges of Madison County; and most recently, Kiss Me, Kate. She has also performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, on Capitol Hill, on PBS’s live telecasts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Her film and television credits include Sex and the City 2, Peter Pan Live!, Masters of Sex, The Good Fight, The Accidental Wolf, for which she received her first Emmy nomination, The Independents, 13 Reasons Why, and most recently, All the Bright Places.
Maura Stanton is the author of the novel Molly Companion, the short story collections The Country I Come From; Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling; Cities in the Sea, and the poetry collections Snow on Snow, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, Cries of Swimmers, Tales of the Supernatural, Glacier Wine, Life Among the Trolls, and most recently, Immortal Sofa. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Southwest Review, The Atlantic, Southern Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly, among other publications.
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