Stories on Stage presents Nothing Ventured April 18, 2010

Please run through April 18
Contact: Gloria Shanstrom
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STORIES ON STAGE

NOTHING VENTURED
Always on Sunday Series
DENVER, – Stories on Stage presents Nothing Ventured as part of their always on Sunday series, featuring Becky Ann Baker, Sam Gregory and Shishir Kurup. Show times are 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18 in the Stage Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Single tickets are $25; tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available. Tickets are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org.
A SPOILED MAN by Daniyal Mueenuddin, read by Shishir Kurup
When just a little happiness is too much to ask for.
Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie, and the forthcoming PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2010. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan’s southern Punjab.
Shishir Kurup is an actor-writer-director-composer born in Bombay, India, and raised in Mombasa, Kenya, and the United States. Mr. Kurup's adaptation of Merchant on Venice, which deals with Hindu/Muslim tensions, won the California Arts Council, Roger L. Stevens/Kennedy Center and TCG extended collaborations awards. He has been seen on TV in the series Surface, Heroes; and has made appearances in Numbers, Lost, Sleeper Cell, Monk, Six Feet Under, M.D.s, The West Wing, among others. Mr. Kurup was one of only six people nationwide to receive the TIME (Time for Inspiration, Motivation and Exploration) Grant from the Audrey Skirball Foundation in recognition of his body of work.
SUMMARY JUDGEMENT by Jay McInerney read by Becky Ann Baker
You can't blame a girl for trying.
Jay McInerney is the author of BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (which he adapted for the screen), RANSOM, STORY OF MY LIFE, BRIGHTNESS FALLS, THE LAST OF THE SAVAGES, and MODEL BEHAVIOR. He is also the author of BACCHUS & ME: Adventures in the Wine Cellar, a collection of musings on wine, and writes a wine column for House & Garden magazine. He lives in New York City.

Becky Ann Baker. An accomplished stage performer, Baker made her Broadway debut in the 1981 production of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", and received a Drama-Logue Award in 1994 for her work in "Night and Her Stars". Other Broadway appearances include All My Sons, Assassins, Titanic and A Streetcar Named Desire. Her films include Spider-Man 3, Death of a President, War of the Worlds, A Simple Plan and In & Out. Ms. Baker's television series include Freaks and Geeks and Kings with appearances in Law & Order, Life As We Know It, Oz, Frasier and Sex and the City. Ms. Baker is a member of the Actor's Studio and a Usual Suspect at the New York Theatre Workshop.
ANTIHEROES by George Saunders, read by Sam Gregory
In a democracy everyone should have a right to superpowers.

George Saunders Writer and educator George Saunders is known for his use of satire in his works of fiction to expose consumerism and the corporate culture, as well as his examination of questions of morality. His style of writing, a mixture of humor and devastating tragedy, has been compared to the writing of the great Kurt Vonnegut, to whom Saunders said he's indebted. Although he didn't start his career writing books, he has gained prominence for his award-winning, critically-acclaimed works for more than ten years.

Sam Gregory is a Denver Center Theatre Company member. He has performed on stage at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and regionally with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Repertory Theatre and the California Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Gregory has appeared in daytime dramas One Life to Live and As the World Turns.
"A Spoiled Man" and "Antiheroes" originally published in The New Yorker.
Stories On Stage, an award winning performing arts organization features some of America's best actors from stage and screen today performing the words of many of the finest contemporary writers.
Nothing Ventured is sponsored in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD) and The Denver Foundation.
Stories on Stage presents Nothing Ventured - America's best actors from stage and screen performing the words of the finest contemporary writers. Sunday, April 18 - Stage Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Speer and Arapahoe. 1:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Tickets $25 - Online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523.
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