I am pleased to announce that popular Internet personality Jeff Cannata will join actors Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds) and Seamus Dever (Castle), and L.A. City Councilmember Jose Huizar (14th District) as a celebrity reader at the Ray Bradbury Read August 22 in Maguire Gardens, just off Ray Bradbury Square (Fifth & Flower) in downtown Los Angeles (subject to availability).
The celebrity readers will join members of the public in reading excerpts from the novels, stories, poems, and essays of the American literary master in celebration of the ninety-sixth anniversary of his birth. The read will take place from 12 noon to three P.M.
Cannata first gained notice on the Internet by co-hosting The Totally Rad Show with Alex Albrecht and Dan Trachtenberg. The Totally Rad Show was a Webby award-winning video podcast of reviews and commentary on pop-culture phenomena such as movies, videos games, television programs, and comic books.
The show ran for five years, ending in 2012 when Trachtenberg was tapped to direct the feature film 10 Cloverfield Lane for J.J. Abrams.
Cannata went on to create his own popular video podcast, Newest, Latest, Best (NLB)
and appears on a number of Internet shows including the videogame-themed DLC, an Entertainment Weekly “Must Listen” podcast. Cannata co-created and co-hosts with Anthony Carboni, We Have Concerns, a comedy podcast wherein they take interesting or unusual news stories and pick them apart to reveal their own existential dread and the hilarity therein. It was named an iTunes Best of 2014 podcast.
Additionally, Jeff is an actor who has appeared on such TV shows as Scandal, Shameless, and The Mentalist and performs regularly on Los Angeles stages. He starred in the Edgar Award-winning comedy mystery The Psychic by Sam Bobrick.
A long time Ray Bradbury fan, Jeff participated in Ray Bradbury Week In 2012 by performing in a staged reading of the Bradbury one-act play, "The Better Part of Wisdom," along with James Cromwell and Seamus Dever.
More information on the Ray Bradbury Read can be had at http://tinyurl.com/gvydnfa
To contact Jeffrey Cannata: Jennifer A. DaRe, Mgr. 323-230-5360
I can be reached at 818-679-2825
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