Stories on Stage - No Such Thing as Supply & Demand February 11, 2012

STORIES ON STAGE

NO SUCH THING AS SUPPLY & DEMAND

A fierce and funny look at the different ways in which we all deal with money, and the different ways money deals with all of us.

DENVER, – Stories on Stage presents “No Such Thing as Supply & Demand” Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m. at The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder and Sunday, February 12 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in Denver at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Single tickets are $25. Tickets for February 11 in Boulder are available by calling the Dairy Center at 303-444-7328 or online at www.thedairy.org ; tickets for February 12 in Denver are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org. Student tickets are $15; tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available.

The Stories

How to Lay Off Your Kids by Carina Chocano

Catalogue Sales by Molly McNett

read by Morgan Hallett

Carina Chocano is a former film critic at the Los Angeles Times, where she was previously a TV critic. She has also been a TV critic and writer at Entertainment Weekly and Salon.com, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Slate and others. Her book, "Do You Love Me Or Am I Just Paranoid? The Serial Monogamist's Guide to Love" was published by Villard in 2002.

Molly McNett teaches English composition at Northern Illinois University. In 2008 and 2009 her stories were awarded the Peden Prize from the Missouri Review, and the 2008 John Simmons Award for fiction from the University of Iowa Press. She was given a special mention in the Pushcart Prize series, and named as one of the 100 Distinguished stories from the Best American Short Stories series, edited by Salmon Rushdie. McNett recently was awarded a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H.

Morgan Hallett's credits include Broadway's Translations, Long Day’s Journey into Night; OffBroadway When The Rain Stops Falling, Rebel Voices; Denver Center Theatre Company's Noises off, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Lonesome West, Pierre, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Tantalus and regionally in Quartermaines Terms, Love Janis, The Ladies Man, Vincent in Brixton, A Death in the House. Her film credits include Population 436, and The Reader. Morgan has also appeared in Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and The Good Wife.

My Hard Bargain by Walter Kirn, read by Chip Persons

Walter Kirn, has published a collection of short stories and several novels, including Thumbsucker, which was made into a 2005 film featuring Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn; Up in the Air, a feature film directed by Jason Reitman; and Mission to America. He has also written The Unbinding, an Internet-only novel that was published in Slate magazine. His latest book is the 2009 memoir Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever.

Chip Persons New York stage appearances include Švejk, Andorra, title role in Richard III, Godard: Distant & Right, The Song of Seven Cities, Foodstable, Hamlet, Cold. In Colorado he performed the title role in Richard III at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and earned a Denver Post Ovation Award Nomination for Best Actor for that role. Film & Television credits include Law & Order, Psych(Discovery Channel), Return to Paradise Lost.



The Landlord by Wells Tower read by Leonard Barrett

Wells Tower is the author of the short story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. His short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. He received two Pushcart Prizes and the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review.

Leonard Barrett is well known for his roles in PHAMALY's Beauty and the Beast, Man of La Mancha, Guys & Dolls,Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wiz, Urinetown, andSide Show. He has appeared at Boulder's Dinner Theatre in Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup, Ragtime,and The Producers. His one-man cabaret show Unforgettable plays regularly at Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret. Leonard has received the 2007 Denver Post Readers Choice Award, Best Actor in a Musical & Best Actor in a Drama; 2006 Westword’s Best Year for an Actor; 2004 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Actor in a Musical and 2004 Westword’s Best Crossover Actor.

Celebrating their 11th Season, Stories on Stage has great actors bring stories to life by combining literature with theater.

No Such Thing as Supply & Demand is sponsored in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD), Colorado Creative Industries, Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado and the Ralph and Florence Burgess Trust.

Stories on Stage presents “No Such Thing as Supply & Demand”

A fierce and funny look at the different ways in which we all deal with money. Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m. at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, 80302 - Sunday, February 12 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Single tickets are $25 / $15 Student - 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org. Tickets for February 11 in Boulder are available by calling the Dairy Center at 303-444-7328 or online at www.thedairy.org - Tickets for February 12 in Denver are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online atwww.storiesonstage.org.