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Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell

Jonathan Ames is the author of eight books: I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Alcoholic (a graphic novel illustrated by Dean Haspiel). His next book, The Double Life is Twice As Good, will be published by Scribner in July 2009. He is the creator of the new HBO series Bored to Death, starring Jason Schwartzman and Ted Danson, which will be airing September 2009. He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press. Mr. Ames's screenplay for his novel The Extra Man is currently filming, and stars Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, John C. Reilly and Katie Holmes. The directors are Shari Berman and Robert Pulcini, who also co-wrote the script. Mr. Ames adapted his memoir What's Not to Love? as a TV special for the Showtime network and he played himself. At the time, he said, "It's the role I've been waiting for!" The special aired in December 2007 and January 2008. Besides writing, Jonathan Ames performs frequently as a storyteller (often with The Moth) and has been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman. He has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as "The Herring Wonder," and he had a one-man show off-off-Broadway, entitled "Oedipussy." Mr. Ames also had the lead role in the IFC film The Girl Under the Waves, plays a journalist in the new John Malkovich film The Great Buck Howard, and was a porn-extra in the porn film C-Men.

David Cale is the author and performer of seven solo shows including A Likely Story, Deep in a Dream of You, Smooch Music, The Redthroats and Lillian, for which he received an Obie Award. His shows have been presented throughout the U.S. in venues including Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Second Stage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Goodman Theatre, Chicago and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. His monologues have been featured on NPR's This American Life, The Next Big Thing, BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play and in the HBO Special, Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo. He wrote the Book, Lyrics, Co-composed the music for, and appeared as Floyd in the musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky for which he received an Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best New Off-Broadway Musical. He is the author of the plays Betwixt and Nightwear. He wrote and narrated the text for choreographer Charles Moulton's dance Chickens performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. He has written lyrics for songs performed by recording artists including Debbie Harry, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Scott and The Jazz Passengers. A collection of his monologues, The Redthroats has been published by Vintage Books. As an actor, David appeared on Broadway in The Three Penny Opera (The Roundabout) and Off Broadway in Mouth to Mouth, 2000 Years, The Fastest Clock in the Universe, My Night With Reg, Curtains (Ensemble Obie Award), all with The New Group. His film credits include Two Lovers, The Slaughter Rule, Pollock, and Radio Days. He is the recipient of two N.Y.F.A. Fellowships, an N.E.A. Solo Performance Fellowship, a Sundance Institute Screenwriter's Lab Fellowship and two Bessie Awards for Outstanding Creative Achievement.

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, 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. Other notable productions include Caryl Churchill's Far Away directed by Stephen Daldry, Vita and Virginia at the Zipper Theater, A Hard Heart by Howard Barker, Great Expectations at Theatreworks/USA, Guantanamo at the Culture Project, 4 by Tenn at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Vagina Monologues with Nell Carter and Annabella Sciorra, Sister Mary Ignatius by Christopher Durang, Just Say No by Larry Kramer, and The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador by Charles Mee. Out of New York, she has appeared at Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sundance Playwrights Lab, Milwaukee Perpertory Theatre, and others. Film work includes Duplicity by Tony Gilroy, Rebel Voices by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Jumpin' at the Boneyard, Five Corners, The Last Days of Disco, and others. On television she has appeared on The Laramie Project, Benjamin Franklin, A Death in the Family, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Storm of the Century by Stephen King, Spin City, and LA Law. 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 board of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, and is an advisor to Theaters Against War and MSF/Doctors Without Borders. She has twice served as the Bieneke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama. She created the role of "Love" in the off-Broadway production of Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.

Hazelle Goodman has been widely celebrated for her unique ability to transform into many different characters in the course of one performance. Featured in Vogue, People and Vibe magazines, her self-titled HBO special was nominated for two Cable Ace Awards: Best Comedy Special and Best Performer. Among many credits, Goodman has starred opposite Woody Allen in the groundbreaking role of Cookie in Deconstructing Harry, as the diva and drug lord Georgia Rae Mahoney on NBC's Homicide and as Evelda Drumgo in the blockbuster film Hannibal.

Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA Fellow and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting. His most recent work, The Storm Show, rooted in the Galveston flood of 1900 will premiere in 2009 as a co-production with DiverseWorks and Stages Repertory Theater in Houston (TX). In February 2009, his play, In This Place..., was produced in NYC by 651ARTS, opening their 20^th anniversary season. In This Place... was originally commissioned/presented by LexArts (KY) in 2008 and funded by the Multi-Arts Production Fund (MAP). In 2007 he re-mounted his Epic Family Epic (with the Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Program funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Trust) to tour to VSA North Fourth Arts Center, (NM) and the Krannert Center, (IL). Previously, his work has been commissioned/produced/presented by New York Theater Workshop, Soho Rep., The Public Theatre, Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, and HERE (all NYC); the Mark Taper Forum (CA), the George Street Playhouse (NJ), the Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Spirit Square (NC) Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (MA), and Dance Space (DC). He has collaborated with David Gordon on works presented at American Repertory Theatre (MA), American Conservatory Theater (CA), and American Music Theatre Festival (PA); and with Bebe Miller on works presented at The Wexner Center (OH), and Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents (MT), etc. As a performer, Gordon created the role of "Journals" in the Off-Broadway run of Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell and toured with the production to UCLA Live (CA), Guild Hall (LI), TBA Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR), the ICA Boston and Vineyard Playhouse (MA), etc. Gordon also wrote for NBC's Will & Grace. Currently, Gordon is Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Creative Research, CCR, (a trans-disciplinary collaboration with research-oriented universities), a member of the Board of Directors of Performance Space 122, and Chair of the Danspace Project Artist Advisory Board. He has been Co-Director of the Pick Up Performance Co(s) since 1992.

Lisa Kron has been writing and performing theater since coming to New York from Michigan in 1984. Her play Well opened on Broadway in March 2006, receiving two Tony nominations, following acclaimed 2004 run at the Public Theater for which it was named one of the year's best plays by the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Newark Star Ledger, Backstage, the Advocate, and included in the anthology, Best Plays of 2004-2005. It has received productions by companies, large and small, around the world, including a recent run on London's West End. Her play 2.5 Minute Ride (Obie, Drama Desk nom., GLAAD Award) premiered at the Public Theater in 1999 and has since toured extensively in the US and abroad. Other plays include 101 Humiliating Stories  (PS122, Lincoln Center; Drama Desk Nom.), Charity and Montecore (2006 Humana Festival, NY Fringe), and 43/13 (Dad's Garage, Atlanta). Lisa is a founding member of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. She has received playwriting fellowships from the Lortel and Guggenheim Foundations, the Lark Play Development Center, an NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Fellowship, the Cal Arts/Alpert Award, and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is currently working on several new projects including the play Five Questions, (set to premiere next season at Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, followed by a run a Berkeley Rep.), a musical adaptation with Jeanine Tesori of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, as well as new plays for the Sloan Foundation through Playwrights Horizons and for Drew University. Lisa teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama.

Josh Lefkowitz is a writer and performer.  He has performed his autobiographical solo pieces to wide critical acclaim in theaters and spaces throughout the country. His first full-length monologue, titled HELP WANTED: A Personal Search for Meaningful Employment at the Start of the 21^st Century, has played at Baltimore Centerstage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Yale University, Chicago's Single File Festival, Dixon Place, The Tank, and Access Theater in NYC, as well as the Inaugural Capital Fringe Festival. Josh's second monologue - NOW WHAT? - was commissioned by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, where it premiered in Fall 2007 following workshops at Dixon Place and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  It played at Baltimore Centerstage in January 2008. He has led workshops and lectures in solo performance at Towson University, University of Maryland-Baltimore, George Mason University, American University, Baltimore School for the Arts, University of Michigan, and Yale University. Josh was an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, where he created work under the mentorship of actor/writer Eric Bogosian and he has collaborated numerous times with performanc artist Holly Hughes. His short plays have been performed at The Work Gallery in Ann Arbor, MI, Theater Alliance in Washington, DC, and The Illusion Theater in Minneapolis, MN.  His stories and poems have been published in numerous journals online and in print, and he has recorded personal essays for NPR's All Things Considered. As an actor, Josh has appeared at Playwrights Horizons, NY Stage & Film, Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana 2007), Woolly Mammoth, Baltimore Centerstage, Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, Olney Theatre, and is currently performing in The Rise & Fall of Annie Hall at Theater J. He received a Young Artist grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan, and was selected as one of NY's Best Emerging Jewish Performers.

Carmelita Tropicana is a Cuban-born writer and performance artist, Tropicana is the recipient of a 1999 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, and named by the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario "una de las mujeres destacadas del 1998." Her critically acclaimed solo With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? was produced Off Broadway by INTAR Theater (2004); and presented at the Mark Taper Forum's The New Theater for Now Festival at the Kirk Douglas Theater (2005) Northwestern University as part of Black and Latino Performance Festival (2008) and Michigan University (2006). Single Wet Female (2002), a play co-written with Marga Gomez, was presented at the Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco, in New York City at Performance Space 122, and at The Off Center in Austin, Texas (2005). It was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding New York Theatre: Off Off Broadway (2003). Her the multi-media piece, Candela (a collaboration with Uzi Parnes and Ela Troyano) was presented at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City, Dance Umbrella in Boston, the Kimo Theater in Albuquerque, Teatro Lazo in Mexico City (1989-90). She has presented her solo, Milk of Amnesia (directed by Ela Troyano) from 1994 to the present, in numerous theatres and museums, including The Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea in Barcelona (as part of the art exhibit, "Cuba la Isla Posible"); the Menead Theatre in Calgary, the ATHE conference in New York City, the American Studies conference in Montreal, Performance Space 122 in New York City, The Theater Offensive in Boston, New World Theater in Amherst, Duke University, Cornell University, Yale University, and Rutgers University. Her book I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures edited by chon Noriega was nominated for 2000 Lambda Award for theater writing. Her film Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst is Your Waffen, a collaboration with film director Ela Troyano, was funded by Independent Television Services and won for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 18^th International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

Frank Wood won Broadway's TONY Award & the Drama League Award for Sideman, which he also performed in London's West End and Australia.  Film work includes The Changeling, Synechdode, Dan in Real Life, Thirteen Days, In America, People I Know, Pollock, Down to You, The Royal Tannenbaums, Flakes, The Favor, Small Time Crooks, and Michael Clayton. On television he plays Greg in "Flight of the Conchords"; and has made appearances on Medium, Line of Fire, Third Watch, The Sopranos, Law and Order and Law and Order: Criminal Intent.  Off-Broadway he has created roles in The God of Hell, Spring Awakening (at the Atlantic Theatre; The Wax, Playwrights Horizons; Hollywood Arms on Broadway & the Goodman Theatre); Peter and Jerry at Hartford Stage; Waiting For Godot at A.C.T.; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Long Wharf Theatre; Light Up The Sky at Williamstown Theatre; Our Town at Bay Street Theatre; Hamlet at The McCarter; The Rainmaker at Arena Stage; The Three Sisters at American Repertory Theatre and at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland. Wood will appear in the upcoming films The Missing Person and Tony Scott's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. He is currently in August: Osage County on Broadway. He created the role of "Family" in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell at the Minetta Lane Theater off-Broadway.