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Acts of Love: Pioneers

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Acts of Love: Pioneers

October 3, 2009 @ Eli and Edythe Broad Stage

WordTheatre’s seventh annual Acts of Love in support of Autism Speaks will celebrate the Pioneers of our age, of bygone eras and of unknown futures; people who strike out into the unknown to make a better future.

This year’s show is currently being cast and will feature, among others:

  • Adam Arkin (Hitch, Chicago Hope)
  • Austin Butler (Aliens in the Attic, Ruby & The Rockits)
  • Michael Chiklis (Fantastic Four, The Shield)
  • Michaela Conlin (Bones, Enchanted)
  • John Heard (Home Alone, Prison Break)
  • Jon Huertas (Castle, Generation Kill)
  • Dorian Missick (Six Degrees, Lucky Number Slevin)
  • CCH Pounder (The Shield, Orphan)
  • Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes)
  • Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia, Jennifer’s Body)
  • Amber Tamblyn (Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants)
  • Keith David (Crash, The Princess and the Frog) will narrate
  • Musical performances featuring vocalist Niki Haris with Tim McAfee-Lewis & New Thought and The Agape House Band

Acts of Love 2009 also features an awards reception to celebrate those who have made a difference in the Autism Community. Awards will be given to remarkable champions in the following categories:

Awareness/Media:Shawn Ryan (”The Shield”)

Science/Research:
Bob & Lynn Koegel (UCSB)

Advocacy:
Soryl Markowitz
(Autism Specialist at Westside Regional Center)

Family Services:Jay Nolan Family Services

Autism is a complex neurobiological disorder that typically lasts throughout a person’s lifetime. Today, 1 in 150 individuals is diagnosed with autism, making it more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined. It occurs in all racial, ethnic, and social groups and is four times more likely to strike boys than girls.

Since its inception, Autism Speaks has committed an unprecedented $128 million in new research funding to uncover the cause(s), prevention, treatments and cure for autism, making it the nation’s top private funder of autism research. They are not only dedicated to funding global biomedical research, but also to raising public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society; and to bringing hope to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder.

Acts of Love: Pioneers is created, produced and directed by WordTheatre’s Artistic Director, Cedering Fox.

Curtain is at 7:30 PM

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Pushcart Prize Benefit

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

 

Pushcart Prize Benefit

Word Theatre NY

June 27, 2009 @ Guild Hall

 

 

James Franco (Board Member)
Amanda Seyfried (Honorary Board Member)
Jane Oster (Board Member)      
Kieran Beer  & Melissa Benson
Michelle Murphy & Robert Strada
Heidi Banks             
          
and Bill Henderson (Editor of the Pushcart Prize)

Invited you to Guild Hall as WordTheatre once again honored the Pushcart Prize, considered “one of the most important publishing projects in American history” (Publishers Weekly), with a benefit at the newly renovated Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York.

This year marked the 33rd anniversary of the Pushcart Prize, and WordTheatre’s fifth year working with them. Their “yearly volumes of stories, poems and essays feature much of the best writing available in this country.” (New York Times Book Review). 

This year’s celebration featured performances of Pushcart Prize winning stories by:

Act I

  • Darrell Larson (The Manchurian Candidate, Rachel Getting Married) read “The Face” by David St. John
  • Lynn Whitfield (The Josephine Baker Story, Head of State) read “By Love Possessed” by Lorna Goodison
  • Linus Roache (Law and Order, The Wings of the Dove) read “Joyas Voladores” by Brian Doyle
  • Samantha Mathis (Broadway’s 33 Variations; American Psycho) read “Sundays” by Ellen Wilbur
  • Nicole Ansari (Rock n’ Roll on Broadway, As Good as Dead) read “One Moment on Top of the Earth” by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Edi Gathegi (Twilight; The Twilight Saga: New Moon; Gone, Baby, Gone) read “Bons” by Beth Tashery Shannon
  • Amy Irving (Carrie, Hide and Seek) read “The Dead Boy at Your Window” by Bruce Holland Rogers
Act II
  • Janel Moloney (The West Wing, Desperate Measures) read “Recorded Message” by Philip Dacey
  • John Heard (Home Alone, The Sopranos) read “Tomorrow’s Bird” by Ian Frazier
  • Sean Young (Bladerunner) read “Not the Plaster Casters” by Janice Eidus
  • Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy, The Escapist) read “The Human Table” by Marvin Cohen
  • Amber Tamblyn (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Joan of Arcadia)read “The Kiss” by Pamela Painter
  • Jackson Rathbone (Twilight; The Twilight Saga: New Moon) read “The Bank Robbery” by Steve Schutzman
  • Amy Irving (Carrie, Hide and Seek) read “The Dead Boy at Your Window” by Bruce Holland Rogers
With After Party musical performances by Jackson Rathbone and Ben Graupner 100 Monkeys

Produced and Directed by Cedering Fox

Technical Director Todd J. Goldblatt

Sound Design Craig Freeman

Lighting Design Sebastian Paczynski

Special Thanks to Janes Oster, WordTheatre Board Member, for her enormous contribution to tonight’s event and Darrell Larson for his support

Special Thanks to East Hampton Wines and Liquors and Park Place Wines and Liquors

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