5:15-6:15pm Docents available at the Marion Davies Guest House to discuss the site
6:30-7:30pm Reading

The New Short Fiction Series partners with Beach=Culture to bring an evening of comedic and serious musings on the theme of Independence. Featuring new fiction by Ron Burch, Andrew Roe and A.R. Taylor, read by Lorraine Michaels, Sally Shore and Robert Standley.

Authors:

Ron Burch is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter in Los Angeles. His plays have been produced and developed by the Adirondack Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, The Lark, the Public Theater, ASK Theatre Projects, and others. The Baby was a finalist for The National Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville; it was produced in April 2010 as part of the American Globe Theatre's NYC 15-Minute Play Festival and will be published in the anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus, December 2011. His movies include Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Yours, Mine & Ours, and Head Over Heels. In television he was nominated for a primetime Emmy. His short stories have appeared in print and on-line at The Mississippi Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Pear Noir, Pindeldyboz, Brooklyn Review, PRISM International (Canada), and other places; he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and his first novel, Bliss Inc., was published by BlazeVOX in 2010. Ron is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America West, ASCAP, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and the 2011/2012 PlayLabs at the Katselas Theatre Company, Beverly Hills, CA. ronburch.net

Andrew Roe’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, One Story, The Sun, Glimmer Train and The Cincinnati Review. His reviews and non-fiction have appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com and other publications. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Roe lives in Oceanside, California and keeps a sporadic blog at andrewroe.blogspot.com.

A.R. Taylor graduated from Stanford and has her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. She has been trying not to disgrace her respective schools ever since.  Her fiction has appeared in Rosebud, Red Rock Review, the Berkeley Insider and The Pedantic Monthly, forthcoming from the Grabhorn Institute is a story called Role Model.  A two time Emmy winner for her work in public television, in 2006 FX commissioned a television pilot from her book The Good Girl’s Revenge. Taylor’s new novel is called Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion.  She can be found at lonecamel.com.

Readers:

Lorraine Michaels (performing A Long Time Coming by A.R. Taylor): In her younger, red-haired days Lorraine sang the leads in Lucia, Rigoletto and Fledermaus, to name a few.  As an actress, she has played very dramatic roles in Last Leavings and Pillar of Clouds, Pillar of Fire at local 99-seat Equity waiver houses, as well as Mornings at Seven at Theatre 40.  She also understudied two roles in Mornings... at the Ahmanson. In more recent silver-haired days she has been in several commercials - always playing lively broads!

Sally Shore (performing Statue, 305 Ft, 1 Owner by Ron Burch): Acclaimed Spoken Word Artist Sally Shore was a 2001 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Regional Arts Grant winner for her New Short Fiction Series™, L.A.’s longest running spoken word series, now in its 15^th year of bringing the freshest new voices in West Coast short fiction to Los Angeles audiences. She appears frequently in spoken word festivals and literary events including KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum, When Words Collide, California State University Los Angeles’ Cup O’Culture Series, the NoHo International Arts Festival, “Live” from the Red Tent and the Newport Beach Public Library’s Manuscript Literary Lecture Series. Shore, a regular on both NBC’s Suddenly Susan debut season and the 2000 season of BET’s Live from L.A./Saturday Night Slam, has also appeared on TV’s Bless This House and General Hospital. Profiled on Home and Garden Television’s Party At Home, she also recorded a spoken word guest track on D-Zire’s debut album.

Robert Standley (performing My Status by Andrew Roe): Robert has been seen on television in recurring and regular roles on ABC’s Invasion, Fox’s Melrose Place, ABC’s All My Children, and TBN’s Breaking Through. He was awarded Best Actor at the Angel Citi Film Festival for his role in the independent film Time Loves a Hero. He was gunned down by Charles Durning in Charles Jarrott’s Turn of Faith and knocked out by Will Smith in Michael Mann’s Ali. He recently starred in the sci-fi/horror film, Gatherers, in festivals this fall.

The New Short Fiction Series, L.A.’s longest running spoken words series, is celebrating its 15^th anniversary in 2011.  Presented at The Writers Junction in Santa Monica in cooperation with Barnes & Noble, The New Short Fiction Series is a recognized standout in the Southland’s artistic landscape. Each performance features carefully selected excerpts from new works of short fiction by a West Coast writer. The New Short Fiction Series is directly responsible for placing 6 newly released books on the Los Angeles Times’ bestseller list, and has been the “jump off” for many collections and novels from unpublished stories featured in the series. Sally Shore produces this monthly live program, performing with a rotating guest cast of some of L.A.’s most talented working actors. 

"It's a spoken word series and it's also L.A.'s only live literary magazine … It's not really a reading, but more of a hybrid of live interpretation and the written word. It's literary performance." Variety

The New Short Fiction Series is a member of the Pasadena Arts Council's EMERGE Fiscal Sponsorship Program.

Stop by early for information on the Beach House and Guest House tours by docents from the Santa Monica Conservancy before every Beach=Culture evening, from 11am-2pm and 5:15-6:15pm.

Tickets are free but seating is limited and reservations are required. If you would like to attend, please reserve online. Please plan to arrive by 6:15pm to retain your reservation. Late seating, even for reservation-holders, is not guaranteed. To adjust or cancel your reservation for this event, email beachhouse@smgov.net. We appreciate your keeping in touch!

Directions: The Beach House is located at 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402 on the west side of Pacific Coast Highway, a half mile north of the California Incline and a half mile south of Chautauqua Blvd. Plenty of public parking is available - enter off PCH at the Beach House Way traffic light. The facility is easily accessible by foot or bike from the beach bike path, although the Beach closes at sunset. There is ample bike parking at racks throughout the site - remember to bring your own lock.

Parking: There is an hourly/daily parking charge at the park and pay machines available in three areas of the ACBH parking lot. Weekday fees are $4/hr and 8/day; plan to pay for two hours and please check the website for details.

Other events: To view & make reservations for future free Beach=Culture events, check http://annenbergbeachhouse.com/beachculture.

General Info: For hours, events and more, visit http://www.annenbergbeachhouse.com, or call 310-458-4904. Back on the Beach Café is open daily 8am - 8pm through the summer.