Selected Shorts

The hit public radio and podcast series comes to town bringing three great actors and a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater and comedy.  Public Radio International’s wildly popular series and podcast goes live in a unique evening of literature in performance. Performers will include Joanna Gleason, Dylan Baker and Krystina Alabado.  Artists/Stories subject to change

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Host Joanna Gleason (Broadway’s Into the Woods, The Affair, The West Wing) will be joined by Richard Kind (East New York, Argo, Spin City, Mad About You) and Krystina Alabado (Broadway’s Mean Girls, Pantheon, Hazbin Hotel) for an evening of readings of short fiction by emerging and established writers about life’s unexpected twists and turns.

The program will include: “The Luck of Others” by Ben Philippe, “Somebody’s Daughter” by Amy Silverberg, “A Sacrifice” by Simon Van Booy and “The Acorn” by Elizabeth Stix. The first two of these stories were commissioned for Selected Shorts and have never been published.

Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space in New York City and broadcast on more than 150 stations to about 300,000 listeners around the country. The Selected Shorts podcast consistently ranks as one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes, with more than 100,000 downloads each week. Selected Shorts on Tour connects audiences with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater and comedy.

Joanna Gleason won a Tony for her portrayal of the Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods. Her other Broadway and off-Broadway credits include The Normal Heart; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, for which she received a Tony nomination; I Love My Wife; Happiness; Joe Egg, for which she received a Tony nomination; Sons of the Prophet; and The Real Thing; to name only a few. Her television credits include The West Wing, The Newsroom, Love and War, Bette, and many more. Films include Hannah and Her Sisters, Boogie Nights, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Skeleton Twins, and many more. She has written and directed two films: a short, Morning Into Night, which debuted at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and was selected for the Cambridge Film Festival; and a feature, The Grotto, which won the Best Narrative Feature premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival in 2022. She has been reading stories for Selected Shorts for 35 years.

Dylan Baker is an actor whose many film and television credits include The Resort, Inside Man, Hunters, Happiness, The Hot Zone: Anthrax, The Good Fight and The Good Wife, Homeland, Little Women, Spider-Man 2 & 3, Selma, Confirmation, Kings, Damages, and The Americans. His extensive theater credits include La Bête, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, Corruption at Lincoln Center, The Audience with Helen Mirren, the Broadway revival of The Front Page, Bernhardt/Hamlet, and Medea at BAM. In addition to his acting credits, he directed the 2014 film 23 Blast. Baker is also an audiobook narrator and was honored with the Audie Award for his reading of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections and is the voice of Doctor Doom in Marvel’s Wastelanders: Doom. Baker can most recently be seen in Dream Scenario and LaRoy, Texas.

Krystina Alabado was last seen starring as Daisy Arujo in Mystic Pizza at La Mirada Theatre, as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George at the Pasadena Playhouse, and as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls on Broadway. Additional Broadway credits include American Psycho and Green Day’s American Idiot. She has performed in the national tours of Evita, American Idiot, and Spring Awakening, and off-Broadway in The Mad Ones, This Ain’t No Disco, David Bowie's Lazarus, and Camp Wanatachi. Her film and television credits include Disney’s Better Nate Than Ever, A Killer Party, Sunny Day, God Friended Me, First Reformed, FX’s Tyrant, Mecha Builders on HBO Max, and Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. Alabado can be heard on the cast albums of The Mad Ones, A Killer Party, Goosebumps The Musical, Star Crossed, the animated series Hazbin Hotel, and more.