Literature to Life PLAY is a unique ninety-minute theatrical and educational experience consisting of a one-hour verbatim solo performance and pre-/post-show interactive audience discussion facilitated by a Literature to Life Teaching Artist.

By F. Scott Fitzgerald Directed and Adapted by Kelvin Grullon Performed by Bryce Foley Literature to Life adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic work as their newest title in their Signature Performance series. The Great Gatsby takes place on Long Island and New York City in the early twentieth century, at the height of the Jazz Age and the Prohibition Era. The novel touches on the treatment of different social classes, “old money” versus “new money” ideology, gender, race, environmentalism, and the price of the American Dream. The Great Gatsby takes place on Long Island and New York City in the early twentieth century, at the height of the Jazz Age and the Prohibition Era. The novel touches on the treatment of different social classes, “old money” versus “new money” ideology, gender, race, environmentalism, and the price of the American Dream. Performed by Bryce Foley. Followed by a talkback. Literature to Life (LTL) is a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. Founded as the educational program of the American Place Theatre more than three decades ago, LTL carries forward the legacy of founder Wynn Handman, who championed American writers of diverse backgrounds as “voices worth hearing” - a pioneering notion in the 1960s. Now under the leadership of Literature to Life co-founding Artistic Director, Elise Thoron, this mighty collective of artists and educators brings the voices of diverse authors to thousands of students and audiences nationwide, giving them the tools to become the empowered “voices worth hearing” of our future.