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WordTheatre returns with authors Marisa Silver, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

The writing of award-winning novelists Marisa Silver and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will come to life at a WordTheatre performance at Chapman University on Monday, Oct. 27.


The writing of award-winning novelists Marisa Silver and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will come to life during a WordTheatre performance at Chapman University on Monday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center. Among the actors reading the authors’ work will be Jason George, who starred on
Grey’s Anatomy
,
Mistresses
and
Barbershop
, and Roma Maffia (
Pretty Little Liars, Nip/Tuck
) and theatre student Laura Zenoni ’15.

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Jason George


The reading is the second event in this year’s
WordTheatre: Giving Voice to Great Writing
series at Chapman. WordTheatre pairs the work of award-winning short story writers with the talents of top actors to create a unique literary and artistic evening. Typically, the writers’ short stories are selected for reading. In the Chapman series, a student from the
Department of Theatre
is also featured at each performance.

Admission is free. More information about the Chapman series and previous authors and readers is available at
WordTheatre at Chapman University
.

 

About the Authors


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Marisa Silver


Marisa Silver’s most recent novel is
Mary Coin
, a
New York Times
Bestseller, published in 2013 by Blue Rider Press/Penguin. In
Mary Coin
Silver uses Dorothea Lange’s iconic “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and the remarkable legacy of their singular encounter.

Silver made her fiction debut in
The New Yorker
in the magazine’s first “Debut Fiction” issue. Her collection of short stories,
Babe in Paradise,
was named a
New York Times
Notable Book and the
Los Angeles Times
Best Book of the Year in 2001. Her novel,
The God of War
, was a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for fiction. Winner of the O. Henry Prize, her fiction has been included in
The Best American Short Stories
and
The O. Henry Prize Stories
, as well as other anthologies.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
is the author of two novels,
Ms. Hempel Chronicles
, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and
Madeleine Is Sleeping
, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.

Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including
The New Yorker
,
Ploughshares
,
Tin House
, the
Georgia Review
and the
Best American Short Stories
2004 and 2009. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of “20 Under 40” fiction writers by
The New Yorker
. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art and Design.

Dawn Bonker

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