Words Without Borders

Kate Burton was nominated for Tony Awards for her work in Hedda Gabler, The Elephant Man, and The Constant Wife. Additional Broadway credits include Spring Awakening, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Jake’s Women, Company, Some Americans Abroad, and most recently, Present Laughter. Her film credits include Big Trouble in Little China; The Ice Storm; Unfaithful; 2 Days in New York; Liberal Arts; 127 Hours; Where'd You Go, Bernadette?; and Before/During/After. On television, she has appeared in multiple Law and Orders, Empire Falls, Rescue Me, Veep, Grimm, Modern Family, Supergirl, The Gifted, Strange Angel, Scandal, Perfect Harmony, Homeland, Charmed, 13 Reasons Why, and Grey's Anatomy, for which she has received numerous Emmy nominations. Burton has directed at the LA Philharmonic and is a professor at the University of Southern California.

Réka Mán-Várhegyi spent her childhood in Târgu Mureș, Romania, and now lives in Budapest, working as editor at a children’s book publisher. Her first collection of short stories, Boldogtalanság az Auróra-telepen (Unhappiness at the Aurora Housing Estate) was widely hailed as a debut volume. Mán-Várhegyi has written numerous children’s books and a book for young adults. Her first novel, Magnetic Hill, was published in 2018. She is a recipient of the 2013 JAKkendő Literary Prize, the 2015 Horváth Péter Literary Scholarship, and the 2018 Déry Tibor Literary Prize.

Arian Moayed is the Co-founder & Board Chair of Waterwell, a civic-minded and socially-conscious theater and education company, as well as a partner at the for-profit Waterwell Films. Most recently with Waterwell, Moayed arranged the transcripts of a deportation proceeding called The Courtroom, now published by Dramatists Play Service and a feature film in pre-production. Moayed writes and directs the Emmy-nominated The Accidental Wolf, a thriller starring Kelli O’Hara, exclusively on Topic. Additional Waterwell productions include a dual-language Hamlet, in which Moayed played the title role, and a remount of a forgotten war musical called Blueprint Specials. Notable acting credits include The Humans, for which he won a Drama Desk Award, his Obie Award-winning role in Guards at the Taj, and his Tony-nominated turn in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Current projects include 28 Mordad and the Christmas radio play The Man in Red. Moayed can be seen in HBO’s Succession and the upcoming Shonda Rhimes/Netflix’s Inventing Anna.

Évelyne Trouillot received the Prix de la romancière francophone du Club Soroptimist de Grenoble for her novel Rosalie l’infâme, in 2004. In 2005, her first piece for the theater, Le bleu de l’île, received the Beaumarchais award from ETC Caraïbe. Trouillot has also published poetry in French and in Creole. Additional novels include La mémoire aux abois and Absences sans frontières, which were both awarded Le prix Carbet de la Caraibe et du Tout-Monde. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, German, and English. Trouillot teaches in the French department at the State University in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and her most recent works are the short story collection Je m’appelle Fridhomme and the novels Le Rond-Point and Désirée Congo.

Yalçın Tosun teaches law at İstanbul Bilgi University. His story collections include Anne, Baba ve Diğer Ölümcül Şeyler (Mom, Dad and Other Fatal Things), which won the Notre Dame de Sion Prize for literature, Peruk Gibi Hüzünlü (Sad like a Wig), which was awarded the Sait Faik Prize in 2012, Dokunma Dersleri (Lessons in Touching), and Bir Nedene Sunuldum (I was Offered to a Cause), for which he won the Yunus Nadi Literature Prize in 2016. Tosun published his first book of poetry, Kendini Tutan Su (The Water Restraining Itself from Flowing), in 2016.

Adina Verson was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in The Lucky Ones, following her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning play Indecent. Additional theater credits include The Servant of Two Masters at Theater for a New Audience, Seattle Rep, the Guthrie, and ArtsEmerson; As You Like It with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Machine Makes Man, which she co-created with Michael McQuilken; Radio Island at New York Stage and Film; Collective Rage… at the MCC Theater, and Wives at Playwright’s Horizons. Verson’s screen credits include The Strain, Mozart in the Jungle, Wormwood, The Kitchen, New Amsterdam, Only Murders in the Building, and the short film To Walk or Run. Ms. Verson holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Rita Wolf most recently appeared off-Broadway at the Public Theater in Richard Nelson’s The Michaels. She will return for the second installment of Nelson’s family saga, in The Michaels Abroad, when the world reopens. She has also been featured in the premiere of Hammaad Chaudhury's debut play An Ordinary Muslim at The New York Theatre Workshop and Emma and Max at The Flea Theatre, written and directed by Todd Solondz. Additional New York theater credits include David Greig’s The American Pilot at the Manhattan Theatre Club, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and the premiere of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul at New York Theatre Workshop and later at BAM. Her film credits include Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette, Spike Lee's Girl 6, Coronation Street, Wing and a Prayer, and The Good Wife. Wolf is featured in the Audible recording of Evil Eye, a noir drama written by Madhuri Shekar.

CREDITS

“Le Detour” © 2013 by Evelyne Trouillot. By arrangement with the author. Translation © 2013 by Paul Curtis Daw. All rights reserved.

“A csatárnő bal lába életveszélyes” © Réka Mán-Várhegyi. By arrangement with the author. Translation © 2018 by Owen Good. All rights reserved.

“Muzaffer ve Muz” © Yalçın Tosun. By arrangement with the author. Translation © 2017 by Abby Comstock-Gay. All rights reserved.