Corona Cold Reads: Sports Night & The Newsroom

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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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