ForImmediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Lisa Roullard and MikeDorrell to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday January 10th,7:00—8:00 P.M.
WritersLisa Roullard and Mike Dorrell willread from their work on Wednesday, January 10th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt LakeCity Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the UtahHumanities Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public.
LisaRoullardwas born and raised in Seattle. She earned her BA in English at theUniversity of Washington and her MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern WashingtonUniversity. Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as HawaiiPacific Review and Atlanta Review and on buses inBoise, Idaho, as part of Poetry in Motion. In 2013 she won the UtahOriginal Writing Competition for poetry. Years ago she was nominatedfor a Pushcart Prize. In addition to writing poetry, Lisa is trying her hand atchildren’s picture books. She lives in Salt Lake City with herfamily where as often as possible she walks in the rain.
Mike Dorrell was born and broughtup in Swansea, Wales. Best known as a playwright, he is the author of over adozen plays for stage, radio and television including work for Paines Plough,Avon Touring, and BBC Radio 4. In Utah, both Salt Lake Acting Company and UtahContemporary Theatre have performed his work, and with the latter he devisedthe Talking Wales series of monologues which was performed in unusual theatrespaces including this library. Mike has first and second degrees from theUniversities of London and Bristol, and has an M.A. in British and AmericanLiterature from the U. of U. He has taught both there and at WestminsterCollege. He was Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company from 1999 to 2008 andwhile there he helped develop new plays by Julie Jensen, Jeff Metcalf and others.Most recently he has completed a seed commission for National Theatre Wales. Mikelearned his trade as a novelist by working as a freelance publisher’s reader,editor and rewrite man. With his former writing partner he wrote novels under avariety of pseudonyms including Rafe Quilty and Jericho Hood. When the BBCcontacted him some years ago to ask him if he really was that Mike Dorrell whohad novelized the Dick Barton Radio Series, he decided to return to novelwriting. Tonight, he will read from his new novel, George and Nye and Betty.
Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading.
Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long
