Corona Cold Reads: Sports Night & The Newsroom

These are crazy times and we’ve all taken on a bunch of new projects as we socially isolate in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.   We’re donating where we can, we’re cleaning the pantry, we’re organizing the 2300+ title dvd library. We finished work on the Nominee Interview Series even though the live event for our […]

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These are crazy times and we’ve all taken on a bunch of new projects as we socially isolate in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.

We’re donating where we can, we’re cleaning the pantry, we’re organizing the 2300+ title dvd library. We finished work on the Nominee Interview Series even though the live event for our yearly Critics’ Pick Awards had to be cancelled (we’ve still got trophies to give out, eventually). We started the Corona Movie Club to help curb our boredom and constant need to talk about movies with other human beings. I’m even watching network procedurals and actually writing about them.

But what we all really need is comfort. We need our favourite things and our favourite people and right now those are hard to come by so we have to do everything we can to bring them together whenever possible. Our solution was to gather some of our favourite people every Saturday night throughout quarantine to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of major writers across generations, plus a few bonus episodes thrown in. There’s a lot more to come, so stay tuned.

For Sorkin Season, our troupe will be reading selections from the work of Aaron Sorkin both onstage and onscreen.

Listen to Sorkin Season Part 3 in audio form below (or on iTunes) then tune into our YouTube page to check out the video versions of all our live readings.

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The Cast of Sports Night– “Pilot”

Dana- Tessa Cernik

Isaac- Basel Daoud

Jeremy- Scott Garland

Natalie- Rebbekah Vega-Romero

Dan- Danny Pagett

Casey- David Armstrong

Man/Man on TV- Mark Kreder

Woman- Melissa Wright

Will- Steve Vargo

Guy- Mo Kamaly

Kim- Elizabeth Morriss

Chris- Laura Hubbard

Elliot- Luis Fernandes

JJ- Haley Dinel

The Cast of The Newsroom– “First Thing We do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers”

Will- Christopher Prentice

Mackenzie- Gaby Grice

Rebecca- Shalyn McFaul

Maggie- Melissa Wright

Jim- Mark Kreder

Charlie- Steve Vargo

Sloan- Saiya Floyd

Don- Luis Fernandes

Jerry- David Armstrong

Neal- Mo Kamaly

Shelly/Joey- Laura Hubbard

West/Voice/Joel- Haley Dinel

Reese/Washington/John- Danny Pagett

Leona/door guard/ Shannon- Elizabeth Morriss

Ross/Herb/ Martin – Marlo Shaw

Ken/Jenna/Kendra/Tamara/Tea- Rebbekah Vega-Romero

Cameron/Ryan/Gary/Cochran- Basel Daoud

Mark/Jake/Tess- Tessa Cernik

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