Cunningham, Chalfant Join Emelin's Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell

Emelin Theatre Announces Stars for Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
Michael Cunningham and Kathleen Chalfant to Join Cast

Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell | $40
April 1 & 2, 2011 @ 8 pm
Words by Spalding Gray. Concept by Kathleen Russo. Directed by Lucy Sexton.
Spalding Gray wrote timeless monologues whose words resonated deeply with audiences. In Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, an ensemble cast performs excerpts from both renowned and never-before-seen work to launch the audience into the hilarious, heartbreaking, and remarkable life and career of one of the most irreverent and revered storytellers of our time.

On Friday, April 1, the cast will include Michael Cunningham and on Saturday, April 2, Kathleen Chalfant will join the cast.

Michael Cunningham is the critically acclaimed author of A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Hours, to name a few. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review and other publications. His story "White Angel" was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and another story, "Mister Brother," appeared in the 2000 O. Henry Collection. Michael Cunningham is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award (1995), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988), and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa (1982). He is currently a senior lecturer in the English department at Yale University.

Kathleen Chalfant is a Tony-nominated actress who has worked in many famed productions. Her Broadway credits include the original production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America for which she received Tony and Drama Desk nominations; the premiere of Racing Demon directed by Richard Eyre, City Center ENCORES! production of Bloomer Girl, Dance with Me and M. Butterfly. Off-Broadway she starred in WIT for which she won the Drama Desk, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Awards. Awards include an Obie for Sustained Excellence of Performance, Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work. She is a founding member of the Women's Project, sits on the boards of The Vineyard Theater, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, and the advisory board of the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is an advisor to Theaters Against War, MSF/Doctors Without Borders, and a signer of the Not In Out Name statement of conscience. She has thrice served as the Bieneke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Cooper Union in June 2010. She created the role of "Love" in the off-Broadway production of Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.

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