Catch stars of ‘The Wire,’ ‘Mad Men’ in WordTheatre on Monday, Nov. 4

Hear the stories of award-winning authors 
Percival Everett
and
Danzy Senna
brought to life by some of Hollywood’s top actors on Monday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. when WordTheatre returns for its third performance at Chapman University.

Hosted by the Department of English, WordTheatre will bring actors Danielle Panabaker (
Mad Men
,
Bones, Stuck in the Suburbs
) and Bob Wisdom (
Burn Notice
,
The Wire
) to read stories by Senna, author of
Caucasia
, winner of the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction, and Everett, winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction and author of
I am Not Sidney Poitier
.

The performance will be presented in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel of the Fish Interfaith Center. The authors are expected to attend.

Tickets are on sale now on the Chapman WordTheatre website,
www.chapman.edu/wordtheatre
. Admission is $20 general and $10 for Chapman faculty and staff with valid I.D.   Chapman University students are admitted free with valid student I.D Check for cast updates at 
www.WordTheatre.com
; casting is subject to change.

More about the cast and authors:

• Danielle Panabaker played Juliette Pittman in the television series Necessary Roughness and has numerous other television credits, from the 2002 remake of Family Affair to Daisy McCluskey in the ongoing hit Mad Men.

• Bob Wisdom starred on HBO’s acclaimed series The Wire and has appeared in many feature films and other television series, including Cracker, If These Walls Could Talk, ER and NYPD Blue.
• Percival Everett has penned 25 works of fiction, including Erasure, for which he won a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, New American Writing Award and The Believer Book Award, among several others. His stories have appeared in The Pushcart Prize Anthologies and Best American Short Stories.
• Danzy Senna is the author of the nationally bestselling novel Caucasia. Winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, it was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and has been translated into eight languages. She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award.

Los Angeles-based WordTheatre has partnered with Chapman University’s English Department and with distinguished author and Professor Richard Bausch to bring this series of world-class writers and actors to campus. WordTheatre’s artistic director,
Cedering Fox
, selects the stories, casts esteemed film and television actors and directs the performances.  Each event features one Chapman theatre student as one of the readers.