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Hello and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly! I’m your host, Cedering Fox, WORDTheatre's Founder & Artistic Director. Last week, we rounded off our “Staff Picks” summer series, where each week one of our hardworking staff members or summer interns introduced a favorite story from our archive and conducted an interview with the story’s author. We hope you enjoyed it and would love your feedback. If you are so moved, send us an email to admin@wordtheatre.org.

We have jammed packed events in LA, NY and London happening in September of 2024 and so we thought it would be enticing to share a story each week from our archive that features an actor, an author, or, in today’s case, an actor-author pairing, whose talents will be on display at an upcoming event. Today we have Maggie Siff stepping into a story by Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most iconic voices in American Literature.
Joyce is a hobbyist runner, and here the author structures her story “Running” around the rhythmic, meandering sensation of a morning run to express her main character’s anxieties and doubts about her long-term relationship. Maggie, will join us in NYC on Tuesday, September 24th to perform another great story by Joyce Carol Oates, who will be in attendance alongside Bernice McFadden and the family of Lore Segal, the evening’s other featured authors. If you like what you hear today and are in the New York on September 24th , be sure to join us for “Three Women,” sponsored by Phiphen Studios, NJ Post, at The Players in Manhattan. For more information, visit wordtheatre.org.

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Now it's time to sit back, relax and enjoy Maggie Siff reading “Running” by Joyce Carol Oates

RUNNING PLAYS
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We hope you have enjoyed Maggie Siff's performance of Running by Joyce Carol Oates. You can pick up books by our featured authors at Bookshop.org and help out two non-profits. Please be sure to check out our upcoming September 2024 events in LA, NY and London and again, we'd love to get your feedback on our podcast. Simply email admin@wordtheatre.org.

Special thanks to Ola Strom for his generous support, to Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture for their continuing support, to Jonathan Sacks for composing our theme music, to our fantastic Executive Coordinator, Scout Riley, to all our summer interns, to Jason Lee, our podcast editor and to you, our listeners. Please tell your friends about WORDTheatre Weekly and we hope to see you at an event in LA, NY or London this September!

This is Cedering Fox in Los Angeles. Until next week, signing off.