Come audition for the student-directed Theatre Showcase production 'I'm Gonna Marry You, Tobey Maguire.' Directed by Paige Gilmartin '26 SYNOPSIS: Coping with the absence of her father, neglect of her mother, and ridicule by her classmates, 14-year old Shelby Hinkley has put all of her time and energy into the one thing that matters: Spiderman. When leading a devout online fan club proves insufficient for her needs, Shelby decides to risk it all for love and marry Tobey Maguire, by any means necessary. Prepared audition materials not required. Please send any questions you have to Paige at peg009@bucknell.edu.

Rebecca Makkai is the author of the New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions For You (https://rebeccamakkai.com/work/i-have-some-questions-for-you/) as well as four other works of fiction. Her last novel, The Great Believers, one of the New York Times' Best Books of the 21st Century (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html#book-80), was a finalist for both the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and the 2018 National Book Award, and was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize among other honors. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Middlebury College, Northwestern University, and the Bennington Writing Seminars, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago (https://www.storystudiochicago.org/). We will be streaming this event online for our audience in the wider poetry community. Pre-register and view HERE (https://bucknell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fqp4WRtpSMe0Byd_gAu-ag). Based on our long-standing Poet-in-Residence program, the Writer-in-Residence program brings an eminent writer of fiction or literary nonfiction to campus for a one-week visit each academic year. The Writer-in-Residence presents a public reading, a Q&A session, a craft workshop and meets individually with select students.