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TOLD #14 - Party Foul
LESLIE GOSHKO
with a story about how the prom was so amazing... except for all the things that happened. Leslie is an awesome storyteller who hosts her own, show, Sideshow Goshko. We've been trying to get her to do Told for a while.
MARTIN DOCKERY
with a story about maybe the saddest party ever thrown. Martin performs all over town, and tours with his award-winning solo shows.
TRACY ROWLAND
with a story about how her friends still can't stop talking about a party she threw more than 20 years ago... and for good reason, though she wishes everyone could forget about it. Tracy has performed at more story shows than actually exist!
and ADAM WADE
with a story about how, if someone is a huge asshole, sometimes the best revenge is to throw them a party. Adam has won the Moth GrandSlam umpteen times and his stories are a joy to behold. (BTW: Yahoo thinks 'umpteen' is a real word).
PLUS!
Interludes by JULIET JESKE aka PRINCESS SUNSHINE The Clown. Juliet will tell mini-war-stories from clowning, calling upon all of her various performance skills, which are legion and may include a hand held air-powered piano. |
TOLD #13- Bunk Beds
JEREMY BENT
performs improv comedy with the groups Thank You Robot, Daddy and Bent/Lind (yes relation). He has contributed to The Onion, and performed in the political improv show The Spin and the taxi-centric improv show Farebeater. You can see him perform musical improv at 11PM every Tuesday in December, at the UCB Theater. Jeremy likes Shake Shack, and dislikes cats.
CYNDI FREEMAN
is an award-winning storyteller, actress and burlesque performer. She runs Stories At The Creek with Brad Lawrence every 4th Tuesday of the month at The Creek in LIC. Her Burlesque show Hotsy Totsy Burlesque (co-produced with Joe the Shark) performs every 3rd Tuesday of the month at The Delancey in LES. Cyndi’s one woman shows have played across the US and abroad, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. www.cyndifreeman.net
ANDY CHRISTIE
was a carpenter for a while. It was 35 years ago, but he still wonders about the fate of a sleeping loft he built back then. It was nine feet high, it was for a daycare center, and he was not a very good carpenter. Now he just draws and writes. If he makes a mistake it's no big deal. He also runs The Liar Show. www.TheLiarShow.com
JULIET WAYNE
lives in West Philadelphia and is the curator and host of a storytelling night called The Trainwreck. She has won slams at First Person Arts in Philly and The Moth in NYC, and has performed at the Liar Show and Upright Down. She is currently working on a book of her short stories, or at least, she was when the thing we copied from the internet was written.
MOLLY KNEFEL
is a comedian. So is her brother John. Together they run “John and Molly Get Along,” which is a stand-up comedy show at Poisson Rouge and a sketch comedy series on YouTube. Molly performs all over town, and thinks John sucks.
JOHN KNEFEL
runs “John and Molly Get Along” with his annoying sister Molly, contributes to The Onion and The Huffington Post, and writes a blog for True/Slant. www.trueslant.com/johnknefel
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TOLD #12- Birthday
On October 20th, the storytelling show TOLD turns one year old! To celebrate a year of sold-out themed storytelling nights, the producers are throwing a show that will include EVERY PERFORMER WHO HAS TOLD A STORY ALL YEAR. Well, however many of them are available that night. More than 50 people have been onstage at TOLD, and a bunch of them will gather at The Kraine Theatre to celebrate with storytelling stunts and revelry. We don’t want to give too much away, but just know this won’t be like other story shows you’ve seen. It will be a joyous, narrative-driven clusterfuck of performance from a gaggle of the best tale-weavers in the city – people who win slams at The Moth, run shows at Upright Citizens brigade, are adored as Stand-Ups in their other lives, and generally populate the shows that make up the current renaissance in NYC storytelling. Did we mention it’s free?
TOLD #11- These Go To Eleven (Mix Tape)
EUGENE ASHTON-GONZALEZ
is a writer, comedian, video game designer, and scavenger hunt producer from Berkeley, California. He hosts 1001 Nights, a storytelling series at The Creek in Long Island City and performs improv around the city with Froduce. Most of his stories mention cats.
SARAH RAINONE
is an editor, improv performer, and the author of the novel Love Will Tear Us Apart. She will be performing as characters from the book on October 18th at the Tank in Manhattan at 7:30 pm and October 19th at 8 pm at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn. http://www.lovewilltearusapartthebook.com.
BURKE HEFFNER
is a filmmaker, pin up photographer and general adventurer. Burke, a former wild land firefighter, was born in Hawaii, raised in Alaska and Montana, and somehow settled down in New York City with a chihuahua and a burlesque performer. His first full length film, Exposed, just won Best Feature at the NY Independent Film Festival in LA, and will be screening in NYC soon.
JAMES BRALY’s
monologue Life in a Marital Institution premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, played Off Broadway, toured nationally, and is forthcoming as a film and memoir. He is a two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam storytelling competition. His new full-length monologue is called The Monthly Nut.
THE B.T.K. BAND
is NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band. They perform in residence at The Stonewall Inn. Their first CD, An Evening With The BTK Band is available online and at their shows. It is filthy and not for children or the clergy. The BTK Band is: Peter Aguero - lead vocals, Jim Beam; Rory Scholl - lead guitar; Sen. Ian C Dunn (D-TN) - rhythm guitar; Margot "The Grabber" Bercy - percussion; Jeff "Cancerface" Scherer - mandolin, melodica, flute; "The Maestro" Eric March - keyboard; Daniela "The Isreali Assassin" Schiller - drums.
TOLD #10 - Lazy Monday.
NICOLE DRESPEL
is a member of the UCB improv team Robber Baron, a storytelling performer, and a staffer at The Public Theater. She has 666 Facebook friends but is not evil.
BRAD LAWRENCE
is an actor, writer, storyteller, burlesque performer, producer, and a good son originally from St. Louis, Missouri and now residing in Brooklyn. He and his wife are the are responsible for Stories At The Creek and The Thursday Show at Identity Lounge. He is a Moth Storyslam winner and the author of the critically acclaimed one man show "Monsters In The Wood."
OPHIRA EISENBERG
is an NYC-based stand-up comedian and storyteller. She has appeared on Comedy Central¹s Premium Blend and VH1¹s Best Week Ever, and is a regular performer at The Moth and The Liar Show.
ANTHONY ATAMANUIK
is a member of the UCB house team Death By Roo Roo and a regular cast member of the long-running storytelling show Night's of Our Lives. He plays a writer on NBC's 30 Rock and just finished a six week tour of the midwest humiliating himself for Pop Tarts.
IAN ROBERTS
is a founding member of The Upright Citizens Brigade. He performed regularly on Late Night with Conan O¹Brien, had a recurring character on Arrested Development, and has joined the cast of Reno 911! His film credits include Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Bring It On and Step Brothers.
TOLD #9: "The Rough Guide"
July 20
Actor and Comic Book writer CHRIS KIPINIAK, who will show us that a trip to Egypt can have more in common with the plot of 'The Hangover' than you might think. Well, part of the plot of 'The Hangover.' Tyson doesn't sing.
Moth Grandslammer DAISY ROSARIO, tells about a crazy drug trip... not the kind you're thinking.
Comedian KEVIN ALLISON (The State) with a tale of arriving at a place where I know you've been, and deciding to do something that I suspect you haven't.
And JEFF SIMMERMON, who just had a story on TAL last week, tells about heading Down Under... to be a hired killer. For real.
Plus, if the tech gods are with us, MELANIE HAMLETT will join us between stories via live video feed, to report in on her current cross-country adventure living in her truck. |
TOLD #8:
Shame On You
RICK BLUNT began his professional career climbing telephone polls in Chicago. However, the larger than life personality of this former collegiate football and tennis player soon carried him into a life of performance. He now is the proud owner of two Masters Degrees in Shakespeare, an array of sexual escapades, and a unique perspective on life.
CHARLIE BETHEL is an actor/writer who specializes in works that are either already in the public domain or are so old that the telling of them has become the birthright of everyone who can speak.. His full length works include solo versions of Beowulf and Gilgamesh. He's working on a survey of myths of the origin of fire. He lives in Warwick, NY.
MICHELLE LEONA tells stories from behind her accordion about what it's like to be a somewhat slutty, almost always drunken, angry blind chick in NYC. She usually wraps things up with a song expressing our baser passions. She recently completed her PhD and is currently exploiting the elite degree by hosting a monthly variety show called the doctor michelle party show, where songwriters & poets share equal stage time with comedians and storytellers. Leona is also a regular feature in john Murdock's God Tastes Like Chicken and Leslie Goshko's Sideshow Goshko. She nurses megalomaniacal fantasies about wanting to rule the world.
STEVE ZIMMER is an aging yuppie from the Midwest. He is a recent winner ofthe Moth Grandslam storytelling championship.
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TOLD #7: Survival of the Fittest
Jake Goldman
Jake is a New York City writer and comedian. He is terrible at standup because his jokes are meander-y, so he figured: storytelling? He and Adam Wade host the show "Real Tales of... College," which features real stories, about college. He has a bunch of new kittens.
Tracy Rowland
“It seemed like the monkey and I were really hitting it off, until....” And that’s how Tracy got into storytelling. She performs regularly at NYC storytelling shows, including The Moth, The Liar Show and Speakeasy Stories.
Adam Wade
Adam Wade is a two-time GrandSLAM Champion at The Moth, as well as a record thirteen-time StorySLAM Champion. He's appeared on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central, ESPN, NBC Sports, and the NFL Network. He's written for the N.Y. Times, N.Y. Press and Glamour Magazine. He makes his web presence at adamwade.com
Donn Lind
For more than 25 years Donn has worked with legal aid to help poor and disabled people receive state benefits. He is originally from Mankato, Minnesota and now lives with his wife Laurie in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Donn enjoys bocce ball and carving wooden spoons, and has a soft spot for The Jerky Boys. This is his storytelling debut.
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TOLD #6: ‘I Fought The Law’
Robert Burke was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was educated at the Hartford Art School and Pratt Institute in New York. He has exhibited his paintings widely, both in Europe and the U.S. His ongoing photography project, “Every Occupation in America,” was recently exhibited in New York.
Lindsey Hope Pearlman is an actress and a Gertrude Stein fanatic. She conceived and will perform an adaptation of Stein's The Geographical History of America May 14-23 at The Red Room Theater. She may move back to Paris in the fall to study to become a clown.
John Flynn is a regular in the Upright Citizens Brigade’s monthly story telling show "Nights of Our Lives." He is also the co-creator of "Showgirls: The Best Movie Ever Made. Ever!" and the creator of the one man shows "Themepark Superstar," and "Dances With Pitchforks: Confessions of a Farm Boy." He can be seen performing stand up all over the city, magazine. and you can check out his website if you want to get more specific: allthingsflynn.com
Peter Aguero was born and raised in Burlington County down in South Jersey. He is the lead singer of The BTK Band, a filthy storytelling rock band that plays regularly at the historic Stonewall Inn (The Yankee Stadium of gay bars). Peter is a lead story instructor for The Moth's community outreach program as well as being the reigning Moth GrandSlam Champion. Peter loves his mom.
Chris Fabricant is a trial attorney with The Bronx Defenders, and formerly practiced criminal appellate work with Appellate Advocates in New York City. On behalf of his clients he has litigated in nearly every venue in New York, including The Court of Appeals and in federal court. Chris is a frequent commentator on television and radio, and his writing has appeared in Details magazine, The Village Voice and High Times Magazine. |
Told #5 'The Crystal Ball' - stories of fortune telling, premonitions, and plain old hopes for the future.
The lineup:
PJ VOGT (On the Media), determines whether or not you should follow your dreams. Like, the dreams you have while sleeping.
MICHELE CARLO (The Moth Mainstage, The Liar Show), on possibly changing the course of pop music fashion, and how this relates to menopause.
MARGOT LEITMAN (Stripped Stories, Conan) takes us to the moment when the gulf between hopes and reality becomes clear, and huge.
JIM O'GRADY (Moth GrandSlam winner, NY Times) tells a story that he assures us will be on theme.
Master tarot reader JANET HORTON tells fortunes. Live on stage!
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Told #4: Near Escape
February 16th
CARTER EDWARDS
is the prose editor of the journal Pax Americana and performs regularly as Oliver Durant at the Poetry Brothel. His work has appeared in Mathematics Magazine, Purgatory and TKO.
MELANIE HAMLETT
Performs in the improv comedy group Bad Data, tells stories at The Moth, and works in props for Film and Television. She often spends time living in her truck.
MARTIN DOCKERY
is a frequent performer at The Moth, Speakeasy Stories and the Liar show. He¹s debuting a new full length show ³The Surprise,² as part of the NY Frigid Fest. It will play several times in late February and Early March at The Kraine Theatre.
RADIO THEATRE
Ladies and Gentlemen, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's Bicentennial (1809-2009) with the critically acclaimed, award winning Radiotheatre in a unique event as they perform live, on stage, a year-long presentation of seventeen major works by the grand master of American horror! Included are: THE TELL TALE HEART, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE HOUSE OF USHER, MORELLA, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, BERENICE, THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, ANNABEL LEE, HOP FROG, THE OVAL PORTRAIT, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, THE CASE OF MR.VALDEMAR, WILLIAM WILSON, LIGEIA and THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE...all newly adapted audio works for the stage by Dan Bianchi, complete with our great cast of storytellers, special guests, original orchestral scores and a plethora of sound effects! |
Told #3: "The Impossible ________."
January 19th Told
Aidan O’Shea
NYC credits include: Felix, Atomic City (La Mama Theatre etc...). NSD credits include: Dr. Roerlund, The Pillars of Society; Davis, Red Light Winter (59E59); Rev. John Hale, The Crucible (Dir. Brian Chickoki); Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dir. Austin Pendelton). Other credits include: Danny, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Exit Theater, SF); Elf/Child, The Polar Express (Film, Dir. Bob Zmeckis).
Pia Wilson
Pia Wilson is a member of the inaugural 2008 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater. Her full-length drama, *The River Pure for Healing*, was a part of the 2008 Resilience of the Spirit Play Festival. Pia's short story, *Dressed In Your Dreams*, was published by The Summerset Review in 2003.
www.piawilson.com
David Dickerson
David Dickerson has contributed to This American Life, The Atlantic Monthly and Story Quarterly. He has also written crossword puzzles for The New York Times and The New Yorker. He used to write greeting cards for Hallmark, and is working on a book that he’s not allowed to talk about.
Faye Lane
Faye Lane has performed her autobiographical stories at Caroline's on Broadway, Comix, The Time Out New York Lounge, and the Moth Story Slam, which she has won in both New York and Los Angeles. Her one-woman show I Wish It So was a critical favorite, and she is currently writing a new show, Beauty Shop Stories, which chronicles her childhood in a Texas beauty salon. She lives in the Chelsea Hotel with a curmudgeonly husband, two cigar chomping cats, and a very friendly ghost. FayeLane@aol.com
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Told #2: The Gift
December 15th
Harry Prichett
"Watermelon Man, Tammy's Birthday Party, My Fellow Americans"
Harry Prichett was member of the mainstage and touring companies of Chicago City Limits; one of New York’s premier improvisational comedy troups. Harry co-founded the interactive, improvisational radio company Radio Active Theater, which could be heard on WFMU in New Jersey and WKCR in Manhatten. His One Man Show Work=Pain=Success has been performed in New York City, New Jersey and Philadelphia.
Katie Cercone
"Heart's Elixir"
Katie Cercone has shown her interdisciplinary collage, installation and performance work in Washington D.C., Portland, Brooklyn and New York City. She has published critical feminist writing in Bitch Magazine, the Utne Reader and U.K.-based feminist art journal N.Paradoxa. She will be taking her piece "Heart's Elixir" on the road for an exhibition at the Fortress of the Arts in Philadelphia on January 24th. zhibit.org/Cercone
Elna Baker
"FAO Schwarz story"
Elna Baker is a writer and storyteller. She's performed her stories for The Moth, This American Life, Studio 360 and comedy clubs throughout New York City. She created the shows IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING (FringeNYC 2006) MEXICAN-MORMON (La Mama Etc. dir. Liz Swados) and A BOOK OF OVER-DRAMATIC CONFESSIONS. She's written for ELLE magazine, Glamour and Five Dials. Her memoir “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance” will be published by Penguin in 2009. elnabaker.com.
Andy Christie
"The Ghost of Christmas Presents"
Andy Christie is the creator and host of The Liar Show (www.TheLiarShow.com). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, in snooty literary journals and online. His humor book, "I Wasn¹t Kidding: How To Commit Suicide So They'll Never Forget It" was published by Random House in the United States and the United Kingdom. Consequently his work can be found on remainder shelves spanning two continents. He has been a featured storyteller on The Moth Mainstage and is a 2007 Moth Urban Storytelling GrandSlam Champion.
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Told #1: Bedtime Stories
November 10
Launch
Clay McLeod Chapman, Author Playwright and creator of The Pumpkin Pie show.
Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel. He teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.
Chris GETHARD, of UCB fame.
Chris GETHARD is a comedian based at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He performs weekly with his veteran improv group The Stepfathers, and monthly at the storytelling show The Nights of Our Lives. Chris has been a guest writer for Saturday Night Live, has appeared on Late Night With Conan O¹Brien, and is the author of ³Weird New York.²
Starlee KINE & Arthur JONES, a mean author illustrator combo who will amaze you by creating illustrations while telling their story!
Starlee KINE is co-creator of the Post-It Note Reading Series and a contributor to This American Life. She recently won the top prize at the Third Coast International Audio Festival for her radio story about getting advice from Phil Collins on how to write a break-up song. Starlee is currently working on a book of essays about self-help called ³It IS Your Fault."
Arthur JONES is an illustrator and animator. He is co-creator of the Post-It Note Reading Series and served as art director for Dirty Found Magazine and foundmagazine.com. He has made several short animated films, including a recent music video for the band Man-Man.
JOAN TICK and her band TREASURE.
Joan Tick is a songwriter and fiction writer from Las Vegas. She reads from her collection of short stories, which were written for her band's first release called 'Tea Parties,' She is joined by Treasure members Caleb Lindskoog and Ryan Trott for the score.
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