Two young East End natives, August Gladstone and Reilly Rose, will team up for “Wreathed: An Evening of Poetry and Music” at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Now living in Los Angeles, Mr. Gladstone is no stranger to the stage, having worked as an actor, clown, and comedian, as well as a poet and screenwriter. (Not to mention that his parents are Kate Mueth, an actor, director, and the founder of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, and Josh Gladstone, the creative director at LTV Studios.)
The younger Mr. Gladstone is in pre-production for his pilot, “The Law Brothers,” which is a quarterfinalist in consideration toward further placement in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. He is also a member of Stamptown, a touring clown group recently seen on Netflix in “A Joke Comedy Festival.”
He is now working at 3 Arts Management, an artist management and production company, and performs regularly in the music, literary, and comedy scenes in Los Angeles. At LongHouse he will read from his forthcoming book of poetry, “Ivy,” and other new works both poetic and set to music.
Ms. Rose, who is based in New York City, performs original piano folk music, and writes and performs sketch/improv as well as musical comedy with her troupe, LaLaHaHa. She recently graduated from N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with a concentration in “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Storytelling.”
She has worked as director, cinematographer, and editor on “Making Maple,” which premiered on public television in Vermont last year, and debuted on camera in the title role of the feature film “Lily Darling” (2022), which was named best romance by the New York International Film Awards.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members, and $15 for students.
Rue Matthiessen, a writer nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, will be at LongHouse on Sunday at 4 p.m. for a conversation with Nina Rayburn Dec, whose career spans audio journalism, documentary film, and fine-art photography.
Ms. Matthiessen’s memoir, “Castles and Ruins,” published in February by Latah Books, is about growing up in an ambitious literary family. Decades after spending a summer in Ireland with her parents, the writer Deborah Love and the author Peter Matthiessen, a National Book award winner, Ms. Matthiessen returned there with her own young family to revisit places from the trip. While there, she has said, memories flooded in that forced her to come to terms with a childhood fraught by two brilliant parents often at odds with each other and their children.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members.
