Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly
Monday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium
Jane Kaczmarek reads A. M. Homes’ Adults Alone
Isaiah Sheffer reads Lewis Robinson’s The Diver
Michael Imperioli reads Stephen King’s Popsy
Pictured (from left to right): Jane Kaczmarek, Isaiah Sheffer, and Michael Imperioli
About the actors:
Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role on the television series Malcolm in the Middle, for which she has been nominated for Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards, and has won the Television Critics Award and the American Comedy Award. Her other television work includes Raising the Bar, The Simpsons, Felicity, Frasier, and Hill Street Blues. Her film credits include Pleasantville, DOA, and Uncommon Valor. On Broadway, Jane appeared in Lost In Yonkers. She is currently featured on Whitney.
Isaiah Sheffer is founder of Symphony Space and host and Director of Selected Shorts.
Michael Imperioli has appeared in over thirty films, including Goodfellas, Jungle Fever, and The Lovely Bones. He was a writer and Executive Producer for Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam. His best-known role as “Christopher Moltisanti” in the HBO series The Sopranos won him a Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award and two SAG awards. He serves as artistic director of the Off-Broadway theater Studio Dante.
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Student $15
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Texas Bound II
Monday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium
Community Partner:
Barry Corbin reads Bill Porterfield’s The Empress of Roughnecks
David Lozano reads José Skinner’s Flight
Lydia Mackay and Alex Organ read Justin Cronin’s Life by Moonlight
Peri Gilpin reads Ellen DeGeneres’s This Is How We Live
Pictured (from left to right): Barry Corbin, David Lozano, Lydia Mackay, Alex Organ, and Peri Gilpin
About the actors:
Barry Corbin has appeared in more than seventy films and television shows. His credits include No Country for Old Men, The Closer, WarGames, Lonesome Dove, Urban Cowboy, One Tree Hill, Dallas, and Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2009 he was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth.
David Lozano currently serves as the Executive Artistic Director of Cara Mía Theatre Co. and specializes in writing, directing, and performing original bilingual plays for the Latino community in the Metroplex. Notable productions include Crystal City 1969, Nuestra Pastorela, and Carpa Cara Mía: A Mexican Pantomime Circus.
Lydia Mackay, a Fort Worth native turned Dallas resident, is a professional actress and theater teacher. She has been seen onstage at many area theaters, and heard on a wide variety of Anime shows. She teaches at Texas Christian University.
Alex Organ is a local actor and educator. He has been seen onstage with the Dallas Theater Center, Second Thought Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, WaterTower Theatre, and the Trinity Shakespeare Festival. He serves on the faculty at KD College, where he teaches Acting and Shakespeare. Alex attended the Yale School of Drama.
Peri Gilpin is perhaps best known for her role as “Roz Doyle” in NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Frasier. She also recently starred in Make It or Break It for ABC Family. Other television credits include King of the Hill, Hot in Cleveland, and Desperate Housewives. Peri was born in Waco and grew up in Dallas. She pursued acting at the University of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy in London.
Ticket Prices
Full $37
Reduced $32
Student $15
Purchase tickets online or call 214-922-1818.
Texas Bound III: Friday Night Lights
Monday, May 7, 7:30 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium
Join us for this special Texas Bound program celebrating the groundbreaking series Friday Night Lights. Travel back to high school as we feature stories about football, family relationships, and the joys and sorrows of high school, using the show as thematic inspiration.
Brad Leland reads T. C. Boyle’s 56–0
Steven Walters reads Sarah Vowell’s Music Lessons
Final actor and story to be announced
Raphael Parry is the director of the Texas Bound series
Pictured (from left to right): Brad Leland, Steven Walters, and Raphael Parry
About the actors:
Brad Leland stepped onto the stage for the first time as a 5-year-old audience volunteer at the Crazy Horse Saloon at Disneyland and hasn’t veered far from the footlights ever since. Film and television credits include Dallas, In the Heat of the Night, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Born on the Fourth of July. He continues to produce various shows and events in Texas as owner of Turnkey Productions. He played Buddy Garrity in the film version of Friday Night Lights and in the series for five seasons.
Steven Walters is a member of the Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center and co-founder of Second Thought Theatre. Theatrical credits at the DTC include Henry IV, The Beauty Plays, and The Good Negro. Other local theatrical credits include Thom Pain (based on nothing); King Ubu; Humpty Dumpty at Second Thought Theatre; as well as Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare Dallas. Television credits include Chase, My Generation, Trauma, and Prison Break. He played Glenn Reed on Friday Night Lights.
Raphael Parry is the Director and host of Texas Bound. He also serves as Executive and Artistic Director of Shakespeare Dallas and Founder of Project X, a host company for the development of new work by artists throughout North Texas.
Ticket Prices
Full $37
Reduced $32
Student $15
Purchase tickets online or call 214-922-1818.
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