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Selected Shorts
Guest host Dylan Marron presents three stories about the fickle nature of fame. A classic action hero may be past his time in “The South Asian Speakers Series Presents the Archeologist and Adventurer Indiana Jones,” by Tania James, performed by Bryan Cranston. Everyday racism transforms a young woman into a death-defying activist in “Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary,” by Jade Jones, performed by Moses Ingram. And pop stars, their fads, and their handlers are fair game in “On a Day Tammy Had Not Eaten Enough Yellow,” by Kenneth Calhoun, performed by Michelle Buteau, John Cameron Mitchell, and Miriam Shor.
Michelle Buteau is a comedian and actress. Her film and television credits include Key and Peele, Enlisted, Broad City, The Tick, The Comedy Lineup, Comedy Knockout, Russian Doll, Isn’t It Romantic, High Maintenance, Tales of the City, Always Be My Maybe, Sell By, (Future) Cult Classic, Bless the Harts, Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, Work It, Happiest Season, and The Stand In. She hosted the podcast Late Night Whenever! and regularly performs stand-up nationwide. Buteau can currently be seen on the series The First Wives Club. Upcoming projects include the film Marry Me starring Jennifer Lopez.
Kenneth Calhoun’s stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, the Paris Review, New England Review, Subtropics, the O. Henry Story Prize anthology and elsewhere. His novel, BLACK MOON, was longlisted for the PEN/Bingham Debut Novel Prize in 2015. A native of Southern California, he currently lives in South Boston.
Bryan Cranston is best known for portraying Hal in Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in Breaking Bad, for which he won the Emmy Award four times. His numerous films include Saving Private Ryan, Argo, and Trumbo, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. On Broadway, Cranston received a Tony Award for his portrayal of President L. B. Johnson in All the Way, a role he reprised in HBO's 2016 television film of the same name. Cranston won his second Tony and a Laurence Olivier Award for his portrayal of Howard Beale in Network. He has directed several television shows and executive produced and wrote the story for the Amazon original crime drama Sneaky Pete. Recent film and television credits include The Infiltrator, In Dubious Battle, Wakefield, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, The One and Only Ivan, and The Stand. In 2016 he published the memoir A Life in Parts. Cranston currently stars in the Showtime mini-series Your Honor. Most recently, Cranston proudly released an artisanal Mezcal, Dos Hombres, with longtime friend and occasional cooking partner, Aaron Paul.
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, Ambulance, directed by Michael Bay, and the mini-series Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Tania James is the author of the novels Atlas of Unknowns and The Tusk that Did the Damage, both of which 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 was born and raised in Southern New Jersey. A former Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, she is a graduate of Princeton University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Both a writer and educator, Jade has taught all levels including elementary, college, and adult learners. A winner of the 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, her work has appeared inThe Rumpus andCatapult. She is currently a staff writer for Dipsea.
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 producesConversations 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.
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. Mitchell will star in the forthcoming mini-series Joe Exotic
Miriam Shor stars in the hit Paramount Network series Younger, for which she received a Critics’ Choice nomination. Additional television credits include notable roles in Mrs. America, The Americans, 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 George Clooney’s feature film The Midnight Sky and Lost Girls, directed by Oscar-nominee Liz Garbus. Forthcoming projects include the film Magic Hour.
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