Press contact: Helen Pinch | hpinch@performancesantafe.org | (505) 984-8759
Santa Fe, NM – March 23, 2022— Performance Santa Fe is excited to present Selected Shorts: Greatest Hits on April 23, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. The hit radio show and podcast comes to the Scottish Rite Temple with show-stopping short stories from a treasure trove of listener favorites. Prepare to be transported as actors from stage and screen perform some of the very best Selected Shorts has to offer. Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds) leads a cast including filmmaker and actor Mike Doyle (New Amsterdam) and performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones.
Performance Santa Fe is partnering with Collected Works Bookstore to offer Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories, which will be available for purchase in the lobby for $19.95 in paperback. Books will also be available at Collected Works Bookstore at 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
Selected Shorts: Greatest Hits
Saturday, April 23 | 7:30 p.m.
Scottish Rite Temple | 463 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501
$45-$115
Runtime will be approximately 120 minutes with intermission.
To purchase tickets to Selected Shorts: Greatest Hits, visit www.PerformanceSantaFe.org or call (505) 984-8759
Hosted by Kirsten Vangsness
Yma Dream by Thomas Meehan
Performed by Mike Doyle
The Appropriation of Cultures by Percival Everett
Performed by Daniel Alexander Jones
Enough by Alice McDermott
Performed by Kirsten Vangsness
The Baby by Simon Rich
Performed by Mike Doyle
THE ACTORS
Mike Doyle has appeared on screen in New Amsterdam, City on a Hill, The Romanoffs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Accidental Wolf, Narcos: Mexico, Jersey Boys, The Invitation, and Green Lantern, among others. His stage credits include The New Century at Lincoln Center and Betrayed with the Culture Project. Doyle wrote and directed the feature film Almost Love starring Kate Walsh, Patricia Clarkson, and Scott Evans. He is currently working on his next film, Passing Through.
Daniel Alexander Jones is a groundbreaking and visionary artist, deftly weaving performance art, theater, music, writing, and teaching. His pieces include Altar No. 1: Aten, Black Light, Duat, and Phoenix Fabrik, among others. He recently published the works Love Like Light and Particle & Wave. Jones was honored with the 2021 PEN America/Laura Pels Foundation Award in Theatre and has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Doris Duke Artist, a USA Artist Fellow, a Creative Capital grantee, and has been commissioned by the McCarter and Public theaters. He is a Full Professor at Fordham University and Producing Artist for the Center for New Performance at CalArts. Currently, Jones is in residence with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance.
Kirsten Vangsness is best known as Penelope Garcia on the CBS drama Criminal Minds; however, she can be found in other places, including a few podcasts (Selected Shorts and Voyage to the Stars), the film noir spoof Kill Me Deadly, andCurtains, the animated short she created, which was released in 2020. She was nominated for Playwright of the Year by LA Weekly and is a company member of Hollywood’s Theater of NOTE. Vangsness recently returned from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where two of her plays, Mess and Cleo and Theo and Wu, were performed at Assembly Rooms. In her spare time, Vangsness buses tables at the Blinking Owl Distillery, which she co-owns, in Santa Ana.
THE AUTHORS
Percival Everett is the author of 20 books, including Wounded, which won the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award; Erasure, winner of the Academy Award for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Big Picture, winner of the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature; Zulus, winner of the New American Writing Award; and the story collection Damned if I Do. His latest books are the novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier, winner of the 2010 Believer Book Award, and the collection of poetry Swimming Swimmers Swimming. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including The Ninth Hour; Someone; After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference. Her recent work is What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction.
Thomas Meehan (1929 – 2017) was a three-time Tony Award-winning playwright who wrote the books for the musicals Annie, The Producers, Hairspray, Young Frankenstein, and Cry-Baby. He co-wrote the books for Elf: The Musical, Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, and the libretto of the opera 1984. He also wrote the screenplays for the Mel Brooks comedies To Be or Not To Be and Spaceballs, contributed to The New Yorker, and was a staff writer for the television program That Was the Week That Was.
Simon Rich is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He has written for Saturday Night Live, Pixar, and The Simpsons and is the creator of the TV shows Man Seeking Woman and Miracle Workers, which he based on his books. His other collections include Ant Farm, Spoiled Brats, and Hits and Misses, which won the 2019 Thurber Prize for American Humor. His latest book, New Teeth, was published in 2021.
CREDITS
“Yma Dream” by Thomas Meehan, first published in The New Yorker (February 1962). Copyright © 1962 by Thomas Meehan. Used by permission.
“The Appropriation of Cultures” by Percival Everett, from Callaloo (Winter, 1996). Copyright © 1996 by Percival Everett. Used by permission of Graywolf Press.
“Enough” by Alice McDermott, published in The New Yorker (April 2000). Copyright © 2000 by Alice McDermott. Used by permission of The Gernert Company.
“The Baby” by Simon Rich, from Hits and Misses (Little, Brown and Company, 2018). Copyright © 2018 by Simon Rich. Used by permission of the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.
Press contact: Helen Pinch | hpinch@performancesantafe.org | (505) 984-8759
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Performance Santa Fe is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to present world-class music, dance, and theater, and to provide excellent performing arts education for our community. Founded in 1937, Performance Santa Fe has presented and produced more than 1,000 events, making it a cornerstone of Santa Fe’s arts community. Performance Santa Fe’s 85th season opens September 21, 2021, with pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin in recital at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. For tickets and additional information about Performance Santa Fe, please call 505.988.1234 or visit www.performancesantafe.org.