Who Am I This Time? is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut in the 1950s. The story was collected in Vonnegut's famous Welcome To The Monkey House. Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ... Welcome to the Monkey House is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. ...

The short story was also made in a short movie starring Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon and directed by Jonathan Demme. The movie was made in 1982 and was one of the first movies for these two actors to appear. Ronald Walken (born March 31, 1943), known professionally as Christopher Walken, is an American film, television, and theatre actor best known for playing menacing or psychologically damaged characters. ... Sarandon in The Banger Sisters Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award winning American actress. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime...

The short story centers around a character named Henry Nash who is an extremely shy and characterless small-town man. However, whenever he takes a part in the local, amateur theater production he becomes the character. Soon, Helene Shaw, a new person in town falls in love with Nash - or she falls in love with the character he is playing in the play.