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Event Program
MON, JAN 29
Hosted by Santino Fontana
The Facts of Life by Anthony Marra
Performed by Santino Fontana
My Mother’s Wedding by Tessa Hadley
Performed by Sarah Mezzanotte
A Visit from the Tune Squad by Carlos Greaves
Performed by Santino Fontana, Dylan Marron, and Sarah Mezzanotte
Santino Fontana is known for his Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Award–winning portrayal of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the Broadway production of Tootsie, and for voicing the character Prince Hans in Disney’s Academy Award–winning animated feature Frozen. Additionally, he has starred in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; 1776; and Zorba with Encores!; and on Broadway in The Importance of Being Earnest (Clarence Derwent Award); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award); Act One; Billy Elliot; Cinderella (Tony nomination); and Hello, Dolly! His onscreen credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sisters, Shades of Blue, Mozart in the Jungle, Submissions Only, Off the Menu, Impossible Monsters, Fosse/Verdon, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Just One Kiss. Fontana recently starred in the Classic Stage Company’s revival of I Can Get it for You Wholesale.
Santino Fontana is known for his Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Award–winning portrayal of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the Broadway production of Tootsie, and for voicing the character Prince Hans in Disney’s Academy Award–winning animated feature Frozen. Additionally, he has starred in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; 1776; and Zorba with Encores!; and on Broadway in The Importance of Being Earnest (Clarence Derwent Award); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award); Act One; Billy Elliot; Cinderella (Tony nomination); and Hello, Dolly! His onscreen credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sisters, Shades of Blue, Mozart in the Jungle, Submissions Only, Off the Menu, Impossible Monsters, Fosse/Verdon, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Just One Kiss. Fontana recently starred in the Classic Stage Company’s revival of I Can Get it for You Wholesale.
Dylan Marron made the podcast Conversations with People Who Hate Me. He wrote a book of the same name, published in 2022 from Atria. He writes for Ted Lasso. Most recently, Marron made a 6-part audio documentary called The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks.
Dylan Marron made the podcast Conversations with People Who Hate Me. He wrote a book of the same name, published in 2022 from Atria. He writes for Ted Lasso. Most recently, Marron made a 6-part audio documentary called The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks.
Sarah Mezzanotte recently reprised her role in Lincoln Center's remounting of Sarah DeLappe's award-winning play The Wolves and appeared in the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation. She also starred in the world premiere of Dry Land, which garnered a New York Times Critics' Pick. Her film and television credits include Chambers on Netflix, Drunk Bus, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Royal Pains, Blame, Olga Dies Dreaming, and the Amazon pilot The Interestings. Mezzanotte is a graduate of The Tisch School at NYU.
Sarah Mezzanotte recently reprised her role in Lincoln Center's remounting of Sarah DeLappe's award-winning play The Wolves and appeared in the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation. She also starred in the world premiere of Dry Land, which garnered a New York Times Critics' Pick. Her film and television credits include Chambers on Netflix, Drunk Bus, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Royal Pains, Blame, Olga Dies Dreaming, and the Amazon pilot The Interestings. Mezzanotte is a graduate of The Tisch School at NYU.
Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Fiction, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Marra has contributed pieces to The Atlantic, Granta, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. His most recent novel, Mercury Pictures Presents, was released in 2022.
Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Fiction, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Marra has contributed pieces to The Atlantic, Granta, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. His most recent novel, Mercury Pictures Presents, was released in 2022.
Carlos Greaves is an Afro-Latino engineer, writer, and filmmaker based in Boston. He teaches online satire writing at The Second City, and is the editor of the satirical news site RF News. His writing has been featured in The New Yorker and he is a frequent contributor to the humor site McSweeney’s, where he wrote three of the site’s top 20 most-read articles of 2020.
Carlos Greaves is an Afro-Latino engineer, writer, and filmmaker based in Boston. He teaches online satire writing at The Second City, and is the editor of the satirical news site RF News. His writing has been featured in The New Yorker and he is a frequent contributor to the humor site McSweeney’s, where he wrote three of the site’s top 20 most-read articles of 2020.
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short story collections, most recently Bad Dreams and Other Stories, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. In 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. Her most recent novel, Free Love, was published in 2022.
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short story collections, most recently Bad Dreams and Other Stories, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. In 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. Her most recent novel, Free Love, was published in 2022.
“The Facts of Life,” by Anthony Marra. Commissioned by Symphony Space. Copyright © 2023 by Anthony Marra and Symphony Space.
“My Mother’s Wedding,” by Tessa Hadley, from Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre (William Morrow, 2016). Copyright © 2016 by Tessa Hadley. Used by permission of the author.
“A Visit from the Tune Squad,” by Carlos Greaves. Commissioned by Symphony Space. Copyright © 2023 by Carlos Greaves and Symphony Space.
Selected Shorts is supported by the Dungannon Foundation, creator of The Rea Award for the Short Story.
Symphony Space’s season of programming is also made possible by the generous support of Susan Bay Nimoy, Estate of Douglas M. Matheson, Seedlings Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Charina Endowment Fund, Henry Nias Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, PECO Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, Mustang Foundation, Michael Tuch Foundation, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation, The Grodzins Fund, The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America, and Theatre Development Fund.
Programming is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Symphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.
Floral Design by PlantShed
Kathy Landau Executive Director
Peg Wreen Managing Director
Isaiah Sheffer*
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1988)
Artistic Director (1988-2010)
Founding Artistic Director (2010-2012)
Allan Miller
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1988)
Jennifer Brennan Director of Literary Programs
Drew Richardson Lead Producer of Literary Programs
Vivienne Woodward Producer of Literary Programs
Mary Shimkin Director of Broadcast & Literary Initiatives
Sarah Montague Selected Shorts Radio Producer
Jenny Falcon Selected Shorts Radio Producer
Miles B. Smith Selected Shorts Recording Engineer
Matthew Love Consultant for Literary Programs
Magdalene Wrobleski Literary Assistant
Sophia Raimondi Literary Intern
Lulu Chatterjee Literary Intern
*in memoriam