Roberta Colindrez originated the role of Joan in the Tony Award–winning Broadway production of Fun Home. Colindrez's additional film and television credits include memorable roles in A League of Their Own, I Love Dick, The Deuce, Vida, Mrs. America, Monsterland, Unidentified Objects, Cassandro, as well as appearances in Girls, The Good Fight, Home, Mr. Robot, Mrs. America, Monsterland, and voicing the role of Tonya in the animated series The Harper House.
Carribean Fragoza is the author of the short story collection Eat the Mouth That Feeds You and an editor and contributor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. She has published fiction and poetry in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Huizache, Entropy, Palabra Literary Magazine, and Eohippus. Her arts & culture reviews and essays have been published in online magazines such as The Aperture, Los Angeles Review of Books, L.A. Weekly, KCET, CultureStrike, and Tropics of Meta. Fragoza is the founder and co-director of the South El Monte Art Posse, a multi-disciplinary arts collective.
Marian Seldes (1928 - 2014) was a presence in film, television, and the theater for more than 60 years. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she performed on Broadway in Dinner at Eight, The Play About the Baby, The Butterfly Collection, Ring Around the Moon, Ivanov, Medea, Ondine, Father's Day, A Delicate Balance, for which she earned a Tony Award, and Deuce, among others. Her numerous film and television credits include Westinghouse Studio One, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Design for Loving, Truman, Sex and the City, Home Alone 3, and The Extra Man. Seldes was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame 1996. In 2006, she received the Drama League’s Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award, and in 2010, she received the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, among other books. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel.
Richard Yates (1926 - 1992) wrote seven novels, including Cold Spring Harbor, Young Hearts Crying,Disturbing the Peace, and Revolutionary Road. He wrote two short story collections, Liars in Love and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, contributed stories to Prize Stories 1967: The O. Henry Awards, The North American Review, Esquire, and The Saturday Evening Post, and was anthologized with The Collected Stories of Richard Yates.
CREDITS
“Lumberjack Mom” by Carribean Fragoza, from Eat the Mouth That Feeds You (City Lights Publishers, 2021). Copyright © 2021 by Carribean Fragoza. Used by permission of City Lights Publishers.
“Fun with a Stranger” from The Collected Stories Of Richard Yates by Richard Yates. Copyright © 1957, 1961, 1962, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 2001 by the Estate of Richard Yates. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company. All Rights Reserved.
