Cake & Prose – Dickens’ A Christmas Carol In Fort Worth

Cake & Prose returns for the holidays!

In December, we’re celebrating the Charles Dickens’ masterpiece, A Christmas Carol. Our actors are reading a version of the story abridged by Dickens himself for public readings. And as always, there will be cake from a local bakery during intermission and a musical performance to conclude the evening. This event is family friendly.

Cake and Prose will take place in Fort Worth on Thursday, December 11th at Arts Fifth Avenue.

A Christmas Carol will be performed by Marissa Duran, Shawn Gann, Brina Palencia, and Katie Wetch, with musical guest Rachel Gollay. We look forward to seeing you there!

RSVP below, with a suggested donation of $10.

ABOUT CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. He wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks and had to pay half the publication costs himself, since his publisher did not see the value of a Christmas story. The novella has never been out of print since its publication in 1843. A Christmas Carol was his first ever public reading in the Birmingham Town Hall on December 27, 1852. His first reading was such a success, he repeated it three days later. Dickens loved to perform A Christmas Carol. He continually edited and adapted the story as a performance piece for several years.

PERFORMER BIOS

MARISA DURAN
Marisa Duran has had the privilege of working with multiple professional theatre companies in the DFW area, and has landed on-camera roles in short films, web-series, and commercials. Marisa works with studios such as Crunchyroll and BangZoom, and lends their voice to various indie projects, video-games, and commercials.

SHAWN GANN
Shawn Gann is a proud Filipino-American ADR Director, Voiceover Artist, and Educator. For most of his career, Shawn has been a theatre maker in Dallas-Fort Worth that has performed on most major stages, started several companies, and has been a producing board/company member with many others; he has also toured nationally and internationally as an actor, which includes performing in Scotland’s 2019 Festival Fringe in Edinburgh.

CAITLIN GLASS

Caitlin Glass is a voice actress and director, best known for playing Winry Rockbell in Fullmetal Alchemist, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, and Princess Vivi in One Piece. You can currently hear her as Damian Desmond in Spy X Family, Cammy White in Street Fighter, and Mina Ashido in My Hero Academia. Check out her voice directing for Solo Leveling, 2024’s Anime of the Year, and Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, number one at the box office worldwide in Fall ’25!

Other well-known anime roles include Vados in Dragon Ball Super, Evergreen in Fairy Tail, Petra in Attack on Titan, Diancie in Pokémon, Kirigiri in Danganronpa: The Animation, Machi in Fruits Basket (2019), Willow Schnee in RWBY, Haumea in Fire Force, Satellizer in Freezing, and Saki in Zombie Land SAGA, among many others.Caitlin holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Texas at Arlington and still enjoys a turn across the boards every now and then. Catch her with Shakespeare Everywhere, Shakespeare in the Bar, Shakespeare Dallas and belting Christmas tunes with Arts Mission Oak Cliff.

KATIE WETCH
Katie Wetch is an actor for Voice Over, TV, Film, and Theater. They also specializes in Improv, Motion Capture, and Stage Combat. Originally from Virginia Beach, they could always be found running from the beach to the mountains.  Camping, Hiking or days spent at the beach were some of their favorite pass-times growing up. If they weren’t outside, they could be found in their room painting murals on walls, reading anything fantasy-related, or playing some of their favorite video games.

MUSICAL GUEST RACHEL GOLLAY
Rachel Gollay (she/they) is a Fort Worth-based singer-songwriter. Rachel lives with her wife, rescue greyhound, cats, and backyard chickens. When she’s not plotting and scheming, Rachel is writing and recording songs or spending time out at the barn with their horse Simcha. Learn more about Rachel and her band at https://www.gollay.net/.

CAKE & PROSE is created and produced by David Hopkins & Matt Cobb.

DAVID HOPKINS is a fantasy novelist with an interest in Shakespeare (hence the workshop), medieval history, fairy tales, and myth. He is the author of The Dryad’s Crown, a story set in the vast world of Efre Ousel. David is married to artist and designer, April Hopkins. They have two daughters, Kennedy and Greta, and a dog named Moose. David is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and founder of Cake and Prose. David teaches classes through WritingWorkshops.com.

MATT COBB is a writer and avid reader with a focus on genre fiction. He lives with his family in Fort Worth.