$25; $20 for Members
In partnership with The Mount, the Norman Rockwell Museum presents the Jazz Age Novel, a literary program organized in conjunction with the exhibition Jazz Age Illustration opening on November 8th.
The Jazz Age Novel will explore the work of three authors who critically examine the enormous cultural shifts that took place in America in the 1920s, including: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby (1925) on the 100th anniversary of its publication; Edith Wharton’s Glimpses of the Moon (1922) chronicling the lives of American expatriates in Europe; and Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) delving into the complexity of racial identity during the Harlem Renaissance.
Each program will begin with a short talk about the author and the featured novel followed by dramatic reading of select passages by an actor or actors.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
The Great Gatsby
Read by Anne Undeland and Ryan Winkles
Introduced by Anne Margaret Daniel
ANNE UNDELAND is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Howl Playwrights, and Rooted Writers. Productions and workshops of full-length plays include Lady Randy (WAM Theatre at Shakespeare & Company, 2019), Wharton Between the Sheets (Great Barrington Public Theater, 2021 {four Berkshire Theater Critics Assoc noms incl best new play}, Boston’s Gloucester Stage, 2022, Salmagundi Club, NYC 2023, semifinalist at LA’s The Road Theater 2024 New Play Festival, and Vermont’s Middlebury Acting Company, 2025). Her short work has been presented around the world (incl. Road Theater, Nevada Arts Council, SpeakEasy, Windhover, Oldcastle, Short and Sweet Vietnam) with her short, The Kiss winning best play at the Ten Minute Festival at the West Side Y in NYC and her audio piece, Adeline’s Gambol a finalist for the Miller Audio Award at the Missouri Review. She has a BA in Medieval Studies from Wesleyan University and works for the sculptor George Rickey. Her most recent play, Madame Mozart, the Lacrimosa premiered at Great Barrington Public Theater in July of this year and had a second production at Punctuate4/Gloucester Stage in October.
https://www.anneundeland.com/
Ryan Winkles is an actor, fight choreographer, and teacher based in Western Massachusetts. He has been company member of Shakespeare & Company since 2006 and while there has performed in Shakespeare’s plays The Taming of the Shrew, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth, Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Richard III, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Winter’s Tale. Additionally, Ryan has performed there in many plays not by Shakespeare which include Hound of the Baskervilles, Creditors, The Learned Ladies, and Mother Courage. Regional credits include: Great Barrington Public Theater: Madame Mozart: The Lachrimosa, The Stones, Breakwater; WAM Theatre: ROE, The Old Mezzo; Theater at Woodshill: Hamlet; Gloucester Stage: Mr. Fullerton: Between the Sheets; Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse: Visitors; Commonwealth Stage Company: The Winter’s Tale, Universe Rushing Apart; the Huntington Theatre Company: Joy and Pandemic. Film/television credits include The Boston Strangler(Hulu) and Time Traveling Bong(Comedy Central). Ryan Is a proud member of Actors Equity and SAG and teaches Stage Violence at Boston University and The Hartt School.
Anne Margaret Daniel is a writer and editor who teaches literature and humanities at the New School University. She has written on topics from Oscar Wilde’s trials to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan and contemporary music. Her edition of Fitzgerald’s previously unpublished short stories I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories was published by Scribner in 2017; and her second edition of Tales of the Jazz Age for Oxford/World’s Classics in 2023. and the Norton Library edition of The Great Gatsby (2022). She is currently at work, with Jackson L. Byer, on an edition of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s selected letters; and on a book of essays about Bob Dylan. This year she served as conference director of The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society’s 17th international conference which celebrated the centennial year of the publication of The Great Gatsby.
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