Sacramento Stories on Stage: Last Event of 2011



Presents

Melinda Moustakis and Leah Grieseman
Read by
Gay Cooper and Victoria Goldblatt


Friday, October 28th, 2011, 7:30PM

Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street (Between Q and R)donation: $5
Doors open 7PM



Melinda Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and raised in Bakersfield, California. She received her MA from UC Davis and her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, her first book, won the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She is currently a visiting professor at Pacific Lutheran University.

 




Gay Cooper is originally from Knoxville, TN, where she performed in community & regional theaters, and was an announcer with the local NPR station. In Sacramento, she has acted with KOLT Run Productions, Resurrection Theater, California Stage & Thistle Dew. Favorite roles include Nurse in “Antigone,” Porter in “Macbeth Resurrected,” Hattie in “Women of Lockerbie,” and Luella in “The Diviners.” Gay will be reading Melinda Moustakis’ “What You Can Endure.”

 





Leah Griesmann was a Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at SJSU. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Swink, The Cortland Review, and Litro Magazine's "Ones to Watch" issue. She earned her MA in Creative Writing at Boston University and has taught at Boston University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Hanyang University in Ansan, South Korea. She is currently at work on a novel set in American Samoa and a collection of linked stories set in Las Vegas.

 


Victoria Goldblatt is the casting director for Stories on Stage. She has been performing for over 25 years, doing films, commercials and voice overs for TV and radio. Victoria has performed for Sacramento's Community Theater and had her own show, Cabernet Night with Victoria and Friends. She has also performed Stand Up Comedy at the Hilton Palm Springs, Clarion and Laughs Unlimited. Victoria will read Leah Griesmann’s “Desert Rats.”



UPCOMING EVENTS
STORIES ON STAGE WILL TAKE A HOLIDAY HIATUS NOVEMBER & DECEMBER, AND RETURN IN JANUARY 2012 TO CELEBRATE THEIR SECOND ANNIVERSARY!

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