Hosted by Meg Wolitzer
Promotional Partner: KERA
Join us for hilarious and captivating stories exploring all things nighttime: sleep, dreams, and what happens after the lights go out.
Selected Shorts returns to Arts & Letters Live with an unforgettable evening of literature in performance presented by Selected Shorts radio and podcast host Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, among other books.
CAST:
Maulik Pancholy is an actor, author, and activist. He is best known for his television roles on 30 Rock, Weeds, Whitney, The Good Fight, and Only Murders in the Building, and for lending his voice to the long-running animated series Phineas & Ferb and Sanjay & Craig. He starred on Broadway in Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons and in Terrence McNally’s It's Only a Play. Pancholy’s debut novel, The Best at It, was named a 2020 Stonewall Honor Book. His second novel, Nikhil Out Loud, was named a 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner and a Kirkus Best Book of 2022.
Karen Pittman is a Critics Choice award and SAG Award nominee, and is best known for starring roles on The Morning Show, And Just Like That…, The Americans, and Yellowstone. Her numerous stage credits include the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Disgraced, for which she received the 2015 Theatre World Award, and Pipeline, for which she was nominated for Lucille Lortel and Broadway League’s Distinguished Performance awards. Pittman recently starred in the films What We Do Next and Unthinkably Good Things.
Sally Nystuen Vahle is an original founder of the Kitchen Dog Theater and a longtime member of the Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center. She is a recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, the Promethean Award, and the Linda and Bill Custard Award, and was the 2023 recipient of the NTPA Stardust Award for Distinguished Collegiate Educator. Vahle has received many Best Actress honors from D Magazine, the Dallas Observer, and the Dallas Theater Critics Forum Awards, as well as an Emmy nomination for her work on the award-winning children’s show Wishbone on PBS. Vahle serves as Professor of Acting at the University of North Texas Department of Dance and Theatre.
There is no virtual option for this event.
Selected copies of Maulik Pancholy's and Meg Wolitzer's books are for sale while supplies last.
