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 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.   CLICK HERE to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes so you don’t miss an episode.    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 The post Corona Cold Reads: <em>Sports Night</em> & <em>The Newsroom</em> appeared first on My Entertainment World.