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The Great Gatsby

A One-Man Performance of the Literary Classic

October 8, 2026

6 p.m. | WVU Canady Creative Arts Center





ACTOR  BIO

SIMON RABATIN

Performer

Simon Rabatin is a New York based actor and visual artist. Recent productions include Tom in These Shining Lives with Poor Mouth Theatre Company and a supporting role in Aiden Cronin’s film The Birds Tell Me All There Is To Know. Training: BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Shakespeare and Company.

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 20th century, at the height of the Jazz Age and the Prohibition Era. The novel touches on the treatment of different social classes, “old money” vs. “new money” ideology, gender, race, environmentalism and the price of the American Dream.

About LITERATURE TO LIFE

LITERATURE TO LIFE (LTL) is a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. LTL’s mission is to perform great books that inspire young people to read and become authors of their own lives. LTL was founded more than three decades ago as the educational program of the American Place Theatre. Now an independent organization, 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.

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