

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Short Story Project's Inaugural Performance: Adapting "Taos" for the Stage
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for the Short Story Project's first event! We create free, live theatrical performances from short stories by exciting writers.About this EventIn this never-before-seen, one-night-only live theatrical performance, we'll bring to life Sally Helm's unpublished short story "Taos," a tender, funny portrait of a teenaged girl and her father facing a turning point in their lives.Directed by Olivia FaciniFeaturing Zachary Desmond, Layan Elwazani, and Nile Assata HarrisProduced by Undiscovered WorksShort Story Project Creators and Associate Producers: Zachary Desmond and Olivia Facini  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/718f6a20-f14f-11f0-bf45-c17c2445384b-rimg-w1109-h740-dceeece9-gmir.jpg About the Short Story ProjectLed by Zachary Desmond and Olivia Facini and supported by Undiscovered Works, the Short Story Project creates low-tech, high-creativity theatrical stagings of short stories. Our performances provide a fun, free way for audiences to encounter a new author and to experience in a new way the work of a writer they might know already. We host our events at independent bookstores around New York City to bring communities together in familiar, welcoming surroundings and to encourage further exchange between theater and literature, between avid theatergoers and devoted book lovers.About Undiscovered WorksUndiscovered Works celebrates and builds community through storytelling of all kinds! Whether it's through an artist discussion and mingling at our monthly storytelling series or Mixology, engaging with our community blog, or taking in one of our productions, we foster dialogue around entertainment. Playwrights, filmmakers, actors, monologists, musicians, comedians, and artists of every variety explore and showcase their talents—they're what it's all about! In addition to our artist and theatre partners, we raise awareness of and funds for the local non-profit organizations who keep our communities thriving.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/71bede90-f14f-11f0-bf45-c17c2445384b-rimg-w1110-h740-dc181415-gmir.jpg Lead Artist BiosZachary Desmond makes stories about the present, past, and future of migration. He is an actor, writer and director from Washington State whose work has been produced from New York City to Sitka, Alaska and is a member of several companies, including Mercury Store in Gowanus and the inaugural company at New American Ensemble. He is an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, a Rattlestick Theater Incubator semi-finalist, and a two-time winner of the 59E59 Theaters SpaceLab grant. He recently completed a two-year Artistic Fellowship with Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company and is a resident playwright with No.11 Productions in NYC. MFA Juilliard.Olivia Facini is a director, producer, and playwright based in New York. Her play Boys' Club (No Girls Aloud) was named a Finalist for the 2025 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. The Brooklyn Rail has described her work as "goofy and rigorous but never self-serious." Olivia has worked with large theater institutions, smaller ensembles, and freelance artists, including 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Atlantic Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, Mercury Store, Moxie Arts, New Georges, Talking Band, The 24 Hour Plays, The Associates Theater Ensemble, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. With Julia Greer, Olivia co-runs The Hearth, a theater company dedicated to supporting the work of emerging artists of underrepresented genders. She is very proud to have received a New York State Assembly Citation for her contributions to arts activism. IG: @oliviafaciniSally Helm is an independent radio producer and writer living in Brooklyn and pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College. She’s originally from Los Angeles, and has also spent time living in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sitka, Alaska. Sally studied English in college, with a focus on political rhetoric and performance.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/71e922e0-f14f-11f0-bc93-2b7e9f643002-rimg-w1109-h740-dcf2f0ed-gmir.jpg
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/short-story-projects-inaugural-performance-adapting-taos-for-the-stage/100001980097946260
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, theatre, entertainment, music, business, festivals, comedy, nonprofit, conferences, storytelling
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Brooklyn
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: dear friend books
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- **full address**: dear friend books, 343A Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Supported by Manhasset Independent School District and YAYA Kids Theater (https://allevents.in/org/supported-by-manhasset-independent-school-district-and-yaya-kids-theater/19118033)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
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