Adam Wade is originally from New Hampshire, is a record fifteen-time StorySLAM Champion, and two-time GrandSLAM Champion at The Moth ("New York's hottest and hippest literary ticket" by The Wall Street Journal). The Moth has given him the opportunity to perform alongside the likes of Garrison Keillor, Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik. He’s also been featured on their popular podcast (500,000 downloads a month) with Jonathan Ames. Adam has been performing his stories in New York City for the past ten years at renowned venues such as Joe’s Pub, the Highline Ballroom, Caroline's on Broadway, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He is a regular at the New York City comedy and storytelling shows The Nights of Our Lives, The Liar Show, Speakeasy Stories, Mortified, The Rejection Show, Stories at the Creek, The BTK Band Show, and Stripped Stories, among others. For the past year, Adam has produced and co-hosted a very successful monthly storytelling show in the city called True Tales of College at Comix in New York City. On August 16th, 2009 Adam and True Tales of College were featured in the Sunday New York Times ‘Style’ section’s piece on The Moth. Video of his winning slam story from August 11th was also posted on NYTIMES.COM. His writing has been featured in the New York Press, Glamour Magazine and the New York Times.

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of "rest area," a collection of short stories, and "miss corpus," a novel. "Miss corpus" was recognized in part of The New Yorker's "Reading Glasses" series in 2003.

Currently, he is writing a trilogy of children's novels titled "The Tribe"—book one, "Homeroom Headhunters," hits the shelves in 2013 on Hyperion books.

Recently, Chapman's story “the battle of belle isle” was featured in Akashic Books’ regional-noir anthology “Richmond Noir.” He was a contributing author on “The Rolling Darkness Revue,” a roaming reading-series of horror writers created by Glen Hirshberg and Pete Atkins, culminating in the anthology At The Sign of the Snowman’s Skull. He was a contributing author to One Ring Zero's "As Smart As We Are" album, featuring such writers as Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem. He will occasionally write from time to time for his geek-gods Marvel Comics and Fangoria Magazine. 

Chapman’s story "late bloomer" was adapted into film by director Craig Macneill. An official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the short won the audience award for Best Short at the Lake Placid Film Festival and the Brown Jenkins Award at the 12th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Their most recent collaboration, “Henley,” a short film based on the chapter “The Henley Road Motel” from his novel "miss corpus," was an official selection at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. It was awarded Best Short Film at the 2011 Gen Art Film Festival and the 2011 Carmel Arts and Film Festival.

Upcoming films include the sci-fried feature "White Space," starring Holt McCallany, co-written with Ryan Colucci and directed by Ken Locsmandi.

Chapman is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show. In its ten-plus years of existence, it has performed internationally at the Romanian Theatre Festival of Sibiu, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the New York International Fringe Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Edmonton Fringe Festival, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Dublin-based thisisnotashop art space, IGNITE Festival, the Women Center Stage Festival and the Impact Theatre Festival. The Pumpkin Pie Show continues to perform in New York City annually with long-time scene-stealer Hanna Cheek.

Chapman has written the book for the musical Hostage Song with music and lyrics by Obie-winning Kyle Jarrow. He also wrote the book for SCKBSTD, a new musical with Grammy-winner Bruce Hornsby. He is the author of such plays as "commencement," "teaser cow," "JULIAN," "bar flies," "lee’s miserables," "No Exitway," "duct-tape to family-time," "drinking games," "redbird," "jewish mothers," "junta high," "nested doll," "the interstate and on," "the cardiac shadow" and "volume of smoke." Stage versions of his short stories “birdfeeder” and “undertow” were selected for publication in The Best American Short Plays: 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 anthologies.

Chapman was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts for Drama, the Burren College of Art, and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.

KL Thomas is no stranger to comedy. Back home in CA, she was one of the original members of the award winning San Francisco sketch troupe, Ludlow & Canal. Here in NYC, she produces two successful sketch shows, Sketch Block and Rinse & Repeat. She has booked special guests for Penny's Open Mic and is an advisor for Red Tie Mafia. KL has collaborated and performed for sketch writers including Kevin Gilligan, Andrew Kimler & Adam Lash. KL has been featured in shows including The Black Boxes in the Corner, The Chris & Paul Show, Jay Franklin's Cinderella, Peter De Giglio’s The Skinny, NoBody's Token, Adam's Rib, Rachel & the Elf, I Got Your Monkey, Dream NYC, Beast Film's Charlie on Parole, At Least We're Not Mimes and Ludlow & Canal. Cuppie43productions@gmail.com

Entertainer, photographer, collector. Kyle Supley, host of the Vintage Vantage Musical Variety Show, hails from the woods of Schenectady NY, and has lived in NYC For the past ten years. A graudate of the Upright Citizens Brigade, Kyle is a host, actor, and comic, as well as lead singer of his band The Stylers. He is a collector of mid-century furnishings and clothing and lives to share the music and history of the past while modernizing it for today.

Internationally-renowned artstar (and reigning Cheese Queen of Coney Island) Nasty Canasta is frequently hailed as a genius of the neo-burlesque scene. A "burlesque queen" (The NY Times), 2nd Runner Up at the 2010 Miss Exotic World Pageant, and "Brooklyn's greatest burlesque star" (The Brooklyn Paper), Nasty is host and producer of Naked Girls Reading NYC - "New York's Best Story Hour," (The Village Voice) - the impresario behind Sweet & Nasty Burlesque, and was an original co-creator of Pinchbottom Burlesque ("Best Burlesque in NYC" - NY Magazine, "Most Innovative" - Burlesque Hall of Fame).

Nasty began her performance career as a stage actor, studying theatre and costume design at Brown University. In 2005 - after too many years of horribly embarrassing (though, fortunately, horribly-attended) off-off-off-Broadway shows - she discovered her true calling on the burlesque stage.

Now a full-time burlesque performer, producer and costumer, Nasty draws on her years of experience in the theatre to create acts and shows that combine tease and titillation, humor, spectacle and theatricality. She is a regular performer with Wasabassco Burlesque, and teaches private and group burlesque classes. In addition to her burlesque performances, she spent the summer of 2010 as a snake charmer and contortionist with the world-famous Coney Island Circus Sideshow in Brooklyn, NY.

Nasty is best known for her 'burlesques on burlesque:' subtle and surprising twists on classic striptease such as her car-alarm fan dance, her "Unknown Stripper" act, and her award-winning ecdysiastical tribute to Dorian Gray, "The Portrait." Equally at home with classic tease and contemporary pop culture, her numbers range from the sublime to the silly, and have been a favorite with audiences around the world.

moved to New York City in 2003 where he finished the two year Improv training program at Second City, NY. He was part of a two year run with improv troupe "Teen Movie High" performing with them in the Chicago Improv and Toronto Improv festival in 2007. Paul is part of the CHRIS and PAUL SHOW, winners of the 2010 INNY Award For Best Comedy Duo. They perform sketch festivals and colleges around the country.

Peter was born of the unholy union of Fatty & Skinny. He is nigh-indestructible and has a liver that is the size of a toddler. He implores you to Bring The Kids.

Peter DeGiglio is an ordinary schnook with a vision; a dream of a world where ordinary Joes and Janes like you and me take up arms against a sea of moronicism and attempt to learn a thing or three--all while having as good laugh. That's why he created 'The Skinny.'
A lifelong performer, Peter has performed in film, theater, stand-up, improv and sketch comedy all over the United States and New Jersey. The New York Times once called him a "sensitive actor" with "emotional depth and nuance" for his portrayal of a PTSD suffering World War II vet in WNEP Theater Chicago's Let There Be Light...! Most recently, he gained some notoriety as the voice of "The Goblin" in Blizzard Entertainment's popular video game, "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm." (Photo by Blair Frowner.)

Seth Lind hosts the storytelling show Told, performs long form improv with the group Thank You, Robot, and is director of operations at the public radio show This American Life.

Tanya O’Debra is an art doer. She does art that is mostly comedy. Here are a few paragraphs describing the kind of art that Tanya O’Debra has did, and any accomplishments that sound fancy after doing such arts.

Formerly of the ECNY Award nominated comic sister duo, The O'Debra Twins, Miss O’Debra has been a mainstay of the New York underground theatre/comedy scene since the dawn of time. As one half of The O’Debra Twins, she co-hosted the hit open mic SHOW & TELL at The Bowery Poetry Club for five years. Their wildly popular annual O’Debbie Awards Show garnered a Best of New York Award from The Village Voice. Tanya was a member of Mo’s Hoes, the in-house sketch comedy team for Radical Vaudeville, which ran twice monthly for two years at Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction. She won the second annual Miss Fag Hag Pageant as judged by Jon Cameron Mitchell, Michael Musto and Leslie Jordan. Miss O’Debra was a member of the sketch comedy group, Beaches 2, who had a monthly show at Under St Marks Theater that ran for a year.

Before The O'Debra Twins, Miss O'Debra graduated from AMDA. She is in equal parts proud and ashamed of this fact. Before AMDA, Miss O’Debra lived in the Greater Boston Area, an area of which she is a native. Here is a hilarious fact. Tanya O’Debra was a member of Boston’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Full Body Cast. She sometimes played Janet.

Tanya O’Debra writes plays. She co-wrote and co-directed Fuck You or Dead Pee-Holes; an American Tale in Thirteen Acts, which won The Excellence Award in Overall Production at Fringe NYC, the festival's top honor. Her play, Radio Star, has been produced all over the world recieving numerous awards and accolades.

Miss O’Debra hosted a weekly internet show on www.younow.com called Prank-a-thon. She and her guests broadcasted live prank calls to unsuspecting individuals. She is a fiscally sponsored artist of Fractured Atlas. Her new play, Shut Up, Emily Dickinson, will hit the stage soon.

Miss O’Debra is the expectant mother of twin unicorns.

Bastard Keith is a burlesque MC, singer, writer and gadabout. With his partner Madame Rosebud he founded The Sophisticates, the only burlesque show to be thrown out of the Plaza Hotel for indecency. He hosted Revealed Burlesque for its entire run, and MCs frequently for The Floating Kabarette at Galapagos Arts Space, The Rhinestone Follies, Pink Room Burlesque, D20 Burlesque, The Slipper Room, Wasabassco Burlesque, Burlesque Nouveau, Le Scandal Cabaret, and many others.

Human Group is an association of emerging actors, directors, designers, musicians, and creative humans of all kinds. Our goal is to create new and experimental works which examine and question the human experience. We collaborate to create an inventive, thought- provoking, fun theater. We take risks, and value levity. You too can become a member of Human Group.

Jeff has been featured in award winning films, and national and international commercials. His stage shows Creating Illusion, Magicians, Wise Fools & Ordinary Magic, and A Story About Magic have been presented in venues throughout New York City and Europe. Jeff’s most recent show, Creating Illusion, received two 2009 New York Innovative Theatre Awards (Outstanding Solo Performer & Outstanding Performance Art Production). He is a featured performer at New York City’s top venues and events - a plethora of corporate and private clients have incorporated Jeff's outstanding magic into their principal events. He consults on film, commercials and theatre, including recent productions for Arena Stage and Long Wharf Theatre.