Stories on Stage presents Distant Voices March 11, 2012

Stories on Stage presents Distant Voices

Denver, CO – Stories on Stage, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Storytelling, presents Distant Voices. Through stories and video, we step into the lives of individuals whose experiences span continents and generations. Stories by Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngoze Adichie and Roddy Doyle take us around the globe on Sunday, March 11 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theater, located at 721 Santa Fe Drive. Single tickets are $25. Tickets 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

War Dances by Sherman Alexie, read by Lorne Cardinal

Sherman Alexie is the author of twenty-two books, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, War Dances, winner of the 2010 PEN Faulkner Award, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a PEN Hemingway Special Citation winner. He is also the winner of the 2001 PEN Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. Smoke Signals, the film he wrote and co-produced, won the Audience Award and Filmmakers' Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

Lorne Cardinal is an actor and director well known for his role as Sergeant Davis Quinton on six seasons of CTV’s Corner Gas. Following the series, Lorne has starred in the films Rust with Corbin Bernsen and Disney’s Flicka 2. Recently, he finished the APTN pilot Wolf Canyon and hosted the CBC comedy special Turtle Island Too. Lorne’s film and TV credits include Insomnia with Al Pacino,Icebound with Susan Sarandon, the voice of Jacob on the Gemini Award winning animated seriesWapos Bay. In 2012, you can catch Lorne as Zach Ward in several episodes of CBC’s Arctic Air and in the feature film Path of Souls.

Ash by Roddy Doyle, read by Bill Christ

Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He won the Booker Prize in 1993. He established a creative writing centre, "Fighting Words", which opened in Dublin in January 2009.

Bill Christ’s Broadway credits include Born Yesterday, Inherit the Wind, Search and Destroy, The Miracle Worker; Off-Broadway: The Age of Iron, The Seagull; Denver Center Theatre Company: A Flea in Her Ear, The Misanthrope, Lobby Hero, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Little Foxes, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Tempest, and Coming of the Hurricane. Bill has performed at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Portland Center Stage, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Crossroads Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, Wilma Theatre, and Theatre Aspen. He has been seen in the films The Peacemaker, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, and Spare Me, the television miniseries The Laramie Project and made appearances inLaw & Order.

The Headstrong Historian by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, read by Candy Brown

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie started working on her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, during her senior year at University. The book has received wide critical acclaim: it was shortlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2005). Chimamanda was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005-2006 academic years, and earned an MA in African Studies from Yale University in 2008. She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008). She has recently been awarded a 2011-2012 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Candy Brown, a longtime actor with Denver Center Theatre Company, was performing on Broadway inPippin in 1974 when Michael Bennett convened 18 dancers at midnight in a New York gym. What happened that night - and into the next morning - became one of the longest-running, most beloved musicals ever – A Chorus Line.” Lisa Bornstein, RMN. Ms. Brown performed with Gwen Verdon inChicago and Cab Caloway in Hello Dolly. She was seen in the 2001 blockbuster film Ali and has appeared in Six Feet Under, CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue and Chicago Hope.

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

Center for Digital Storytelling is an international nonprofit organization that works with youth and adults around the world in using digital media to craft and record meaningful stories from their lives.

Distant Voices 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, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Storytelling, presents Distant Voices - Three great actors, using stories and video, step into the lives of individuals whose experiences span the continents. Sunday, March 11 - 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theater, 721 Santa Fe Drive. $25 Adult; $15 Student. 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org



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