ABOUT FAITH
FAITH SALIE is an Emmy-winning contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning and a regular on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! She’s hosted five seasons of the PBS show, Science Goes To The Movies. Faith’s hosted lots of podcasts, including Wait Wait Naked and Ashamed and Authorized, in which she interviewed authors about sex and love in literature.
Faith is the author of Approval Junkie, My Heartfelt (and Occasionally Inappropriate) Quest to Please Just About Everyone, and Ultimately Myself, which has been called “a magic mix of vulnerability and jest.” Her one-woman show based on the book had its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in 2019 and will have its New York premiere Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in NYC from March 17 – April 19, 2020.
As a commentator on politics and pop culture, she’s been interviewed by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Bill O’Reilly (consensually), and Anderson Cooper.
As a television and public radio and podcast host, she herself has interviewed newsmakers from Ryan Gosling to Joan Rivers to Lorne Michaels, who once sent her a wedding present with the wrong date engraved on it.
Faith attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, where her fellow scholars went on to become governors and Pulitzer Prize winners, while she got beamed up on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and landed on a collectible trading card worth hundreds of cents.
Faith has lots of jobs, two kids, and one husband.
Join Faith at the Minetta Lane Theatre for the
New York premiere of her one-woman show
APPROVAL JUNKIE.
Directed by Amanda Watkins
Previews begin on March 17, 2020
Opening night - March 25, 2020
World Premiere 2019
Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia
Susan V. Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director
Mike Schleifer, Managing Director
Can We Love Ourselves the Way We Love Our Children?
Feb. 8, 2019
A kindergarten application essay as a mother’s prompt for self-evaluation.
CBS Sunday Morning
Faith with Breaking News
Faith Guest Hosting Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
Guest Jon Batiste
August 2018
CBS Sunday Morning
Pointe shoes & The Nutcracker
With Nicholas Sparks
on how to write love stores that involve kissing in the rain…plus a lesson in 18th-century sex talk