Hope you are well! In October, it has been written--there will be Halloween (and Creative's Alliance's excellent Lantern Parade). And there will be the Lit Show on Thursday, October 11, 2012.
Won't you come and join us? We've got an amazing lineup--playright and author (and part-time mime) James Magruder, poet rock goddess Leslie F. Miller, and special guests director Matthew Porterfield and writing partner Amy Belk. Stir it up with hosts Jen and Betsy and musical institution Howard Markman and Palookaville, and who knows what will happen? And if we did, it would probably be illegal to say.
Won't you come and join us? We've got an amazing lineup--playright and author (and part-time mime) James Magruder, poet rock goddess Leslie F. Miller, and special guests director Matthew Porterfield and writing partner Amy Belk. Stir it up with hosts Jen and Betsy and musical institution Howard Markman and Palookaville, and who knows what will happen? And if we did, it would probably be illegal to say.
Please, please: advance ticket sales are strong encouraged:
Also, RSVP on our Facebook, if you could, so we know how many party hats and
balloons to buy:
The Lit Show! Thursday, October 11, 2012, 8 pm, Creative Alliance at the Patterson
Mixing late-night talk show, literary reading, and variety extravaganza, Betsy Boyd and Jen Michalski are back with Baltimore's favorite programming for the literary set. Rock star poet Leslie F. Miller shows us her riffs, playwright and author James Magruder lets us see it, Howard Markman and Palookaville are back for an encore, and we’re scored a special guest duo like no other¾writer/director Matthew Porterfield and cowriter Amy Belk! Go lit, and you'll never go back. 8 pm. $10, $5 members, students.
James Magruder’s adaptations of Marivaux, Molière, Gozzi, Labiche, Lesage,
and Dickens have been produced on and off-Broadway, across the country, and in
Germany and Japan. His fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Gettysburg
Review, Subtropics, The Normal School, and elsewhere, and his début novel,Sugarless,
was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Current projects include a new version of The Madwoman of Chaillot for American Conservatory
Theatre and Das Bourgeois
Bigshot for Princeton
University. He teaches at University of Baltimore, Princeton, and Swarthmore
College.
Leslie F. Miller likes to break things and put them back together in a
random, yet tasteful, order. A writer, photographer, mosaicist, and graphic
designer, she is the author of the nonfiction book Let Me Eat Cake: A
Celebration of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Baking Powder, and a Pinch
of Salt (Simon & Schuster, April 2009). Her first collection of poetry,
BOYGIRLBOYGIRL, was just published by Finishing Line Press and is available
here:http://www.finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?cPath=4&products_id=578.
Matt
Porterfield was born in Baltimore,
Maryland on October 6, 1977. He studied film at New York University’s Tisch
School of the Arts. In 2006, he made his first feature film, HAMILTON and
his second, PUTTY HILL, in 2010. Along with working as a
director and screenwriter, Porterfield also teaches screenwriting and
production at the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. Matt has begun pre-production on his
second feature, METAL GODS, about a group of kids living in southeast Baltimore
who live and love heavy metal.
Amy
Belk received her MFA in fiction writing in 2007 from the
Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she was awarded the Richard Yates Prize for
Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals such as Fiction, Eyeshot, and Epoch. In addition to
the screenplay for TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS, she co-wrote the
feature I USED TO BE DARKER with Matt Porterfield and is
developing a television pilot based on her experience in the odd world of
corporate blogging. She teaches English and creative writing at the Community
College of Baltimore County and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
