Hello and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story Podcast where great authors and actors meet! I’m your host, Cedering Fox, WORDTheatre's Founder & Artistic Director.
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been re-releasing earlier episodes of our short story podcast —as we’ve had a very busy start to the year! We’ve moved into a beautiful new office on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, we’ve organized our most extraordinary year of programming to date - you can find more on our websites, WORDTheatre.org and WORDTheatreUK.org! We kicked off with a gorgeous event in NYC in January; partnered with ALOUD to launch Walter Mosley's most recent book in February; and I have just returned to Los Angeles from London where we had a gorgeous sold-out performance of our WORDTheatre adaptation of Harriet Walter’s book She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said at the Old Vic in London on March 6th! To our Los Angeles community, we’ll be bringing She Speaks! to the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in September, so keep an eye out for more details and tickets, coming soon.
This week, you will hear the fabulous Cassidy Freeman, who stars in Righteous Gemstones. She joined us in NYC to perform in the first of our three-part NYC 2025 Author•Actor Series sponsored by Phiphen Studios Post NJ.

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To introduce JUST THIS and Cassidy's reading, here is another WORDTheatre favorite, Pamela Painter, the multiple Pushcart Prize winning author of five short story collections, whose work has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic and Harper’.“

PAMELA INTRODUCES THE STORY

THE STORY PLAYS

We hope you have enjoyed Cassidy Freeman's performance of "Just This" by Pamela Painter. WORDTheatre has a full calendar of live events in 2025 - from our intimate Author•Actor series to our largest of large-scale productions to date, there's something for every literary lover to enjoy LIVE if you find yourself near LA, NY or LONDON! Just visit our websites, wordtheatre.org and wordtheatreuk.org, to find out more. If you sign up to become a Patron or Enthusiast Member, you will be able to watch recordings of all our LIVE events from the comfort of home. Supporting the arts has never been more imperative, and we could use all the support we can get so that we can continue to offer this free podcast ad-free. Not to mention, we have a very robust program in schools where we offer gratis performances and we hope you'll support those.
On behalf of Kirsty Peart, my UK producing partner and myself, we'd like to thank Philanthropist/Benefactor, Ola Strom, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Randy & Jane Sinisi and Phiphen Studios | Post NJ, and our podcast editor, Maya Johnson. We have a full team working hard for you everyday and we would love to hear from you so please reach out and send an email to admin@wordtheatre.org if you like what you hear. Thank you for listening. Until next week, this is Cedering Fox signing off!