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	© The Estate of Garry Winogrand, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, S.F.

Celebrate the launch of the Stories on Stage 2005 live season! Find out how Garry Winogrand’s 1968 untitled photograph of a laughing woman sparked the imagination of three acclaimed authors.  Join us for the world premiere of the short stories they’ve written just for us, read by some of Chicago’s finest actors. You can hear: “The Start of It” by Elizabeth McCracken, read by Taylor Miller;“When Much Was In Store” by Elizabeth McKenzie, read by Laura T. Fisher; and “You Must Be This Happy to Enter” by Elizabeth Crane, read by Greta Honold.

Elizabeth Crane is author of the story collection When the Messenger is Hot.  Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Sycamore Review, Washington Square, New York Stories, Book, Nerve, and The Believer. She is the winner of the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award and currently teaches in the School of Continuing Studies at Northwestern University. Her second collection, All This Heavenly Glory, will be released by Little, Brown in March 2005.  She lives in Chicago.

Elizabeth McCracken is the recipient of the Harold Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received grants from the Guggenheim foundation, the Michener Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also honored as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers under 40. She is the author of Niagara Falls All Over Again, The Giant's House (a Barnes and Noble Discover Award winner), and Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry, a collection of short stories.

Elizabeth McKenzie has been a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly and a writing fellow at Stanford.  Her short story “Stop That Girl” was in Dave Eggers's collection Best American Non-Required Reading 2002. It was performed by NPR’s Selected Shorts at Symphony Space in March 2003. Other stories have appeared in Pushcart Prize XXV, 2001, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, Zyzzyva, and Witness.  Stop That Girl, a Novel in Stories will be published by Random House in February 2005.

Director Judy O'Malley counts among her many credits several programs of Irish literature and the annual Stories on Stage special event. Other directing credits include Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata (Jeff citation) and the long-running Lips Together, Teeth Apart.

Location: The Vittum Theatre, 1012 North Noble, Chicago. Free unsecured parking at the Polish Roman Catholic Union. Enter lot west of Augusta/Milwaukee intersection, on Augusta.

Tickets: Tickets for this special event benefiting Stories on Stage are $35 (performance only) and $55 (VIP seating, plus dessert/champagne reception with the authors, actors, and director. Featuring music by a Chicago Sinfonietta ensemble). All attendees will receive a free preview chapter of Elizabeth McKenzie's new book, Stop That Girl.

To purchase tickets, call 312.948.4704 or click here to use the online order form.

All proceeds benefit Stories on Stage, the cost of your ticket is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Our thanks to the following supporters: Vittum Theater, Chicago Sinfonietta, The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, and Trader Joe’s .