Douglas Baker, theater professor at the College of Southern Nevada, adapted Charles Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol” into the one man, three-unmatched-chair production “One Christmas Carol.” For 13 years, Douglas portrayed 32 voices on a simple set and found success and returning audiences in Las Vegas.
Downtown Las Vegas resident Joyce Vought-Klopp Gilbert, who writes under the pen name C.J. Comstock, was inspired to write during the decades she spent in prison. The author wasn’t an inmate; she was a corrections officer in Pennsylvania, first at a women’s prison and then at Graterford Prison, the fourth-largest men’s prison in the country, where she worked as a training sergeant. One inmate inspired her to take up poetry, and a second encouraged her efforts in fiction.
This week’s book event highlights include a new media expert’s lecture on the ethics of digital ditching, the All-Stars Slam of Poetry and readings by UNLV students at NeonLit.
