Ray Panthaki of tomorrow alongside fellow actors Stacy Martin, Katie Leung and Callum Turner. In 2016 Panthaki was cast as a leading role in Hans Rosenfeldt's "Marcella" for ITV and Netflix alongside Anna Friel . The show was a critical success and Panthaki reprised his role for Season 2 which aired in March 2018. In 2017 it was announced that Panthaki had signed on to Wash Westmoreland's "Colette" alongside Keira Knightley and Dominic West to play real life French playwright Pierre Veber, in the biopic based on the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Panthaki attended the World Premier at the 2018 Sundance Film
First Novelist Award of the Cabell First Novelist Award. The award is presented at the annual Cabell First Novelist Night. During this event, VCU brings together the newly published author and his or her agent and editor for a reading and a panel that focuses on the creation, publication, and marketing processes involved with a first novel. Earlier in the day, the itinerary includes a luncheon and a visit with a graduate fiction workshop. The public reading, followed by a Q&A session and other events, draw together MFA and undergraduate writers, the VCU and Richmond literary communities, and the general public. Travel expenses