Selected Shorts Goes to the Movies with the Tribeca Film Festival

Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898) was an English author, mathematician, logician and photographer. His given name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, but he used Lewis Carroll as a pen name. His family had strong ties to the Anglican Church and he studied and taught mathematics at Christ Church. He’s best known for his novels and poetry, which include such works as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

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, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, Eileen, The Boogeyman, Birth/Rebirth, Hell or High Water, The Irishman, The Man in the Woods, The Dark and the Wicked, Light from Light, The Empty Man, and 28 Hotel Rooms. On television, Ireland has been featured on Justified: City Primeval,Sneaky Pete, Y: The Last Man, The Umbrella Academy, Girls, Master of Sex, and Homeland. She will be starring in the upcoming Apple TV+ miniseries Sinking Spring.

Andrea Martin is a two-time Tony Award winner for her performances in the musicals My Favorite Year and Pippin, and a two-time Emmy award winner for her work on SCTV. Additional Broadway credits include Oklahoma!, Candide, Young Frankenstein, Act One, Exit the King, My Favorite Year, and Noises Off. On film, Martin has appeared in Diane, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 1, 2, and 3, Night at the Museum 3, Breaking Upwards, Wag the Dog, and All Over the Guy, among others. Her television credits include 30 Rock,Sesame Street, Will and Grace, UnbreakableKimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock, Modern Family, Hairspray Live, Difficult People, Great News, Elena of Avalor, The Good Fight, Evil, Harlem, and Only Murders in the Building. Martin is the creator of the one-woman show Nude Nude Totally Nude and author of the memoir Lady Parts.

Richard Matheson (1926 – 2013) is the author of many classic novels and short stories. He wrote in a variety of genres including terror, fantasy, horror, paranormal, suspense, science fiction and western. In addition to books, he wrote prolifically for television (including The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Star Trek) and numerous feature films. Many of Matheson’s novels and stories have been made into movies, including I Am Legend, Somewhere in Time, and Shrinking Man. His many awards include the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards for Lifetime Achievement, the Hugo Award, Edgar Award, Spur Award for Best Western Novel, Writer’s Guild awards, and in 2010 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Mary Orr (1910 – 2006) was an actress and author, best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film All About Eve. She frequently collaborated with her husband, Reginald Denham, and wrote five books and forty television scripts. She and Denham also collaborated on the plays Wallflower, Round Trip, Dark Hammock, and Be Your Age.

Michael Stuhlbarg’s Broadway credits include The Pillowman, for which he received a Drama Desk Award and Tony nomination, The Invention of Love, Cabaret, Taking Sides, and Saint Joan. Off-Broadway, he was honored with an OBIE Award for his performance in The Voysey Inheritance, and has appeared in 11 plays with the Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival, including the title roles in Richard II, Hamlet, and Tim Blake Nelson’s Socrates. His television and film credits include A Serious Man, Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water, The Post, Bones and All, Shirley, Hugo, Men in Black 3, Lincoln, Blue Jasmine, Steve Jobs, Trumbo, Arrival, Pawn Sacrifice, Miles Ahead, and Doctor Strange 1 & 2. His television credits include Dopesick and The

Looming Tower, for both of which he received Emmy nominations, Your Honor, The Staircase, Fargo, Boardwalk Empire, Traitors, and Transparent, and the forthcoming series, The Instigators. Stuhlbarg will star as Boris Berezosky in the forthcoming Broadway show Patriots.

The Tribeca Festival brings artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, music, audio storytelling, games, and immersive. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is synonymous with creative expression and entertainment. Tribeca champions emerging and established voices, discovers award-winning talent, curates innovative experiences, and introduces new ideas through exclusive premieres, exhibitions, conversations, and live performances.

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.

CREDITS

“Button, Button,” by Richard Matheson. © 1970 by HMH Publishing Co., Inc, and renewed 1998 by Richard Matheson. Used by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc., and RXR, Inc.

“Jabberwocky,” by Lewis Carroll. From The Complete Stories and Poems of Lewis Carroll (Gramercy Books, 1855). In the public domain.

“The Wisdom of Eve,” by Mary Orr, from Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (Three Rivers Press, 2005). First appeared in Cosmopolitan (May 1946). Copyright © 1946 by Mary Orr.