MOLLY KNEFEL
PETER AGUERO
CATIE LAZARUS
and AARON WOLFE

Plus improv comedy interludes by THANK YOU, ROBOT



A fundraiser for Sandy Relief Efforts. Bid on cool swag up for auction during the interludes, all proceeds will go to Occupy Sandy.

Ed Gavagan (Performer)
Ed tells stories all over town, including the Moth GrandSlam, mainstage and podcast. He is trained as an architect, furniture maker and motorcycle mechanic.

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Melanie Hamlett (Host)
Melanie Hamlett is a writer, storyteller, blogger, and two-time Moth storyslam winner. She performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Bridage Theatre in shows like Asssscat 3000, Nights of Our Lives, Stripped Stories, etc. She's got a few stories on the Risk! podcast and has written for publication like Marie Claire and Nerve.com. Her newest story is featured in the travel series book Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana, which hits stores in November. She's been sharing picture stories about her travels on her blog The Wandering Narcoleptic since 2009. Yes, she's actually narcoleptic!

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Slash Coleman (Performer)
Best known for his PBS special and Off-Broadway one man show, “The Neon Man and Me,” over the past decade Slash’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, American Theatre Magazine, Backstage Magazine and most recently on the NPR series, “How Artists Make Money.” As a performer, he’s been featured at: The International Storytelling Center, Pete Seeger’s Clearwater Festival and The National Storytelling Festival. Currently at work on his 2nd PBS special which is about the re-birth of storytelling in America, Slash lives inNew York City and splits his time between performing and writing new material for the stage, film, and television. A featured blogger at Psychology Today his recent writing has appeared in the following anthologies: Unstuck (Voyageur Press, 2011) and Robot Hearts (Pinchback Press, 2010).

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Zero Boy (Performer)
Entertainer and “vocal cartoonist” Zero Boy is an East Village icon who uses a unique blend of sound and mime, the results being something akin to a performed comic book. He has written, directed and performed in traditional theater, stand-up comedy, television, street performance festivals, radio, film, comic books, magazines, and digital media/art. He can be seen on the upcoming Nickelodeon show Alien Dawn as the evil Dr. Drago. He recently appeared Off-Broadway in the Yllana Production of 666 at the Minetta Lane Theater Zero Boy performed regularly on NPR’s The Next Big Thing in a special “Stump Zero Boy” segment. He has been seen on the television shows Fox and Friends and Good Day New York and MTV’s M2 network has featured his unique comedy. www.zeroboy.com



Abbi Jacobson (Performer)
Abbi Jacobson is an actor, writer and artist living and making things in New York City. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art and is originally from outside Philadelphia. Abbi has studied improv and sketch at UCB since 2006. Her solo show, "Welcome to Camp" ran in NYC and LA in 2011. She is 1/2 of the web series Broad City which is currently in development with Comedy Central. Abbi has 2 coloring books coming out in 2013 with Chronicle Books that you should buy and color in.

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Adam Kuchler (Performer)
Adam Kuchler Growing up in Milwaukee, Adam decided at the age of ten to be a circus clown, and nobody talked him out of it. He has worked in about forty-five states and twelve countries with companies such as Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey, Seven Fingers, and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Adam recently broke up with politics and weather, and is doing much better now.

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Caitlin Brodnick (Performer)
Caitlin Brodnick is a storyteller and comedian who has performed at the Story Collider and UCB, and been featured on The Moth podcast. She has a BFA in acting from Syracuse University, was a founding member of the storytelling team MIMSY, and a creator of the all-female storytelling show “Shut UP.”

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Cocoon Central Dance Team (Special Guest)
Cocoon Central Dance Team is an energy packed dance group ready to wet your pants. You can see us performing our choreographed routines at comedy variety shows, in music videos, and as back up dancers for musical acts such as HUSH HUSH, ILLUSTRATE, and TOYS AND TINY INSTRUMENTS BAND. The group originated as house dancers for The Moon comedy variety show.

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Colin Dempsey (Performer)
Colin Dempsey is an Irish singer songwriter, storyteller and writer. He has performed his unique blend of folk/blues music in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and most recently the US. He is the former Producer and co-host of Comedyland at Astoria’s Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden. When not telling stories he is writing them--you can catch him doing so at Kettle of Fish in the West Village every Wednesday...at the bar. He is also the bass player for NYC Dive Bar cover band Single White Band and singer songwriter for original Rock n' Roots band Supersmall.

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Nisse Greenberg (Performer)
Nisse Greenberg is a producer/creator of Drawn Out Storytelling and one half of Rachel and the Elf. He enjoys the trials and tribulations of everyday life. He wishes he were less concerned with the world. He has three toes on both feet. Plus two more on both feet!



Clay McLeod Chapman (Performer)
Clay McLeod Chapman is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the author of the short story collection rest area, and the forthcoming trilogy of children’s novels The Tribe. He is also creator of The Pumpkin Pie Show, which returns to Under St. Mark’s Theater for three nights only, October 25th-27th. claymcleodchapman.com

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Ilaria Amadasi (Performer)
Ilaria Amadasi attended the prestigious Teatro Stabile diGenova where she played the female lead of The Castle by F. Kafka and Time of darkness by H. Mankell. Since moving to New York she has collaborated at the Off-Broadway 45 Bleecker Theater, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Horse Trade Theater Group, Kairos Italy Theater and Frog &Peach Theatre Company. ilariaamadasi.com

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Jeff Simmermon (Performer)
Jeff Simmermon performs stories at shows all over NYC. He is creator and co-host of the storytelling/comedy/burlesque show And I Am Not Lying, which happens the first Wednesday of the month here at Under St. Mark’s. It is also a popular blog, located at andiamnotlying.com.

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Naomi Azar (Performer)
Naomi Azar is a Chicago native turned New Yorker. She tells stories plays music, and is working towards her PhD in clinical psychology. Naomi has had the opportunity to perform in many New York storytelling shows, and in 2011 was on This American Life with her dad...who was surprised to discover that people actually listen to the radio.

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Sean Cole (Special Guest)
Sean Cole is author of the poetry collection Itty City and a producer at RadioLab. Sean’s poems have been published in various magazines, and his radio stories have appeared on numerous public radio programs.



David Crabb (Performer)
David Crabb is a performer, writer, director and storyteller in New York City. He is a 2-time MothSlam champion. David is the co-creator/producer of the live storytelling series Ask Me and has told stories at Kevin Allison's Risk!, Stripped Stories, Soundtrack Series and Story Collider. David has been a member of NYC's Axix Company Theatre since 2003, developing original material in New York, Paris and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. His one-person show "Bad Kid" was met with critical acclaim and and named a New York Times Critics' Pick.

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Greg Walloch (Performer)
Like the best transgressive artists Greg Walloch uses humor to expose cultural and social fault lines. His acclaimed solo show has played everywhere from the Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia to Castle of Imagination, a performance festival in Poland. He has appeared on everything from The Howard Stern Show to Kurt Andersen's Studio 360 on Public Radio International. Greg is currently appearing with The Moth in USA Network's Characters Unite national tour. Greg solo shows have toured in Moscow, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Poland, Scotland, Tel Aviv, and in various festivals across the United States.

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Justine Barron (Performer)
Justine Barron writes, performs, and tells stories around Los Angeles. Her work includes award-winning film and television scripts and numerous personal essays and comedy shorts. She is a three-time Moth Storyslam winner and regularly performs her stories around town. She also performs with the improv comedy teams "Twig Storm" and "The Beatles(s)." Her comedic work is found online at http://www.justinebarron.com/andtwitter.com/justine_emma.

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PJ VOGT (On The Media) (Performer)
PJ Vogt is a producer for the public radio show On the Media. You can also hear him with Seth Lind on the forthcoming Finest Hour podcast.



Ed Gavagan (Performer)
Ed tells stories all over town, including the Moth GrandSlam, mainstage and podcast. He is trained as an architect, furniture maker and motorcycle mechanic.

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Jim O'Grady (Performer)
Jim is a reporter for WNYC Radio and a Moth GrandSLAM champ. He has worked as a reporter for The New York Times and as a professor of journalism at NYU. He is co-author of the biography, Disarmed & Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan.

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Micaela Blei (Performer)
Micarla has performed at the Moth, at Story Collider, with the incomparable BTK Band and as a monologist for the Armando Diaz Experience. She is a doctoral student in educational theater and a former 3rd grade teacher. She is currently working on a solo show for kids about alternative New York City history, called "City of Islands."

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Michele Carlo (Performer)
Michele is a writer/performer who has lived in four of the five boroughs of NYC and remembers when a slice of pizza cost fifty cents. She is the author of the memoir Fish Out Of Agua: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks (Citadel 2010) and has contributed to Mr. Beller's Lost & Found: Stories From New York, SMITH magazine's Next Door Neighbor, and F***ed In Park Slope, among others. Michele has told stories almost everywhere a person can tell stories in (and away from) NYC, including the MOTH's GrandSlams and Mainstage. www.michelecarlo.com



Blaise Allysen Kearsley (Performer)
Blaise is a writer and a storyteller, as well as the creator, producer, and host of the How I Learned series (www.howilearnedseries.com). And she also does some other stuff, too. She has appeared on The Rejection Show, The Liar Show, The Soundtrack Series, Real Characters, The Story Collider, Steamboat, Mortified, Cringe, and Literary Death Match, among others. Her writing has been published in several places, a long time ago, that are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. In 2009, she was awarded a writing fellowship in Vermont where she got electrocuted and maybe almost killed a horse. Visit her at your own risk at www.bazima.com

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Brad Lawrence (Performer)
Brad is a host of The Moth and of And I Am Not Lying. He can also be seen contributing to storytelling, variety, and burlesque shows throughout New York and as a long standing member of The BTK Band. He is currently working on his next solo effort to be titled "Childhood; A Guide To Tactics And Weaponry."

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Dana Rossi (Performer)
Dana is the creator and host of The Soundtrack Series, a music-fueled storytelling event (and podcast) that is live the fourth Thursday of every month at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. She is a contributor to the anthology Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, and her writing has also appeared in New York Press, Time Out New York, Slice, The Retroist, and InDigest. She sometimes accidentally refers to her iPod as her Walkman. Still.

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Debra Anne Clement (Performer)
Debra is a consulting and teaching astrologer with more than 20 years of professional experience counseling clients from all walks of life. She is the host of Anchored in Astrology, one of the most popular astrology podcasts on iTunes, as well as the co-host of The Cosmic Connection on 1480 KYOS-AM and He Says/She Says Astrology on ContactTalkRadio.com. A member of the New York State Bar since 1999, Debra has also enjoyed a successful career as an attorney. To learn more about her, please visit www.debraclementastrologer.com

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Nisse Greenberg (Performer)
NISSE GREENBERG is the host and producer of Drawn Out Storytelling and performs sketch as part of the sketch duo: Rachel and the Elf. He's really cool. Tell him he looks nice today because he's nervous about his outfit.



Cammi Climaco (Performer)
Cammi is the co-host of the storytelling show Ask Me Stories, a visual artist, storyteller and performance artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She has performed on a bunch of storytelling and stand up shows. Cammi teaches at Pratt Institute of Art. If you apply to Pratt's four year undergraduate program in Fine Arts, get in, pay $80,000, go through the Foundations year, then in your sophomore year, you can take her class!

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Ed Gavagan (Performer)
Ed tells stories all over town, including the Moth GrandSlam, mainstage and podcast. He is trained as an architect, furniture maker and motorcycle mechanic.

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Jim O'Grady (Performer)
Jim is a reporter and editor at WNYC Radio. He has produced and told stories for NPR's Studio 360, All Things Considered and Marketplace. He worked for seven years as a news reporter for The New York Times, which included 9/11 stories for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning special section, A Nation Challenged. He is the author of the biographies Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor (Ward Hill Press) and Disarmed & Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (BasicBooks / HarperCollins). He is a nine-time Moth StorySLAM winner and a Moth GrandSLAM champ. His story "Pie Man," introduced by Garrison Keillor, was aired on The Moth podcast and selected for The Moth's You Tube channel. Another of his stories was featured on the "Neighborhood Watch" episode of This American Life. He has taught journalism at NYU.

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Michelle Leona Godin (Performer)
DR. MICHELLE LEONA GODIN is a writer, and performer whose autobiographical treatment of Helen Keller's time on vaudeville (it's true!) called The Star of Happiness finished its second run at Horse Trade's Kraine Theater in January 2012. She is looking forward to touring the show next spring. Michelle received her Ph.D. in early modern literature from NYU's English department in January 2009. When she is not teaching and writing, Michelle performs at comedy, storytelling, and variety shows in downtown Manhattan and beyond, including KickAssonance, Sideshow, The Moth Main Stage, Tell Your Friends, The Liar Show, and at many music venues around the city - both with her former band Gutter & Spine and currently as a solo act which can be described as an avant accordion brain smash.

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Slash Coleman (Performer)
Slash is best known for his award-winning PBS special, "The Neon Man and Me," and has been featured at The National Storytelling Festival, Pete Seeger's Clearwater Festival, and a residency at The International Storytelling Center. Now hosting and producing his second PBS special, "The New American Storyteller," he'll be traveling across the United States during the next year to document the rebirth of storytelling in America. More at www.slashcoleman.com



Curtis Retherford (Performer)
Curtis is a writer and improvisor who currently performs with the teams Daring Nerd and LD & The Scientist. His webseries, Quest for an Unknown Planet, will be out this summer. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Paste Magazine, and elsewhere. He is also a regular contributor to the Internet. curtisretherford.com

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Hallie Haglund (Performer)
Hallie is a standup, storyteller, and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She also contributes to McSweeney's, The Hairpin, Maxim, Radar, and other places that pay in strong senses of accomplishment. She dedicates her performance tonight to her cat, Henry. Nathan Larsen (Performer) Nathan teaches at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx. He's also a Wallace Fellow at Bank Street College's Principals Institute.

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Nathan Larsen (Performer)
Nathan teaches at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx. He's also a Wallace Fellow at Bank Street College's Principals Institute.

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Peter Aguero (Performer)
Peter was born and raised in the wilds of South Jersey. He is a Moth GrandSlam champion, host of Moth StorySlams, and an instructor for the MothShop Community Program. He is also the lead singer of The BTK Band, NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band. Peter loves his Mom.

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Sara Jonsson (Performer)
Sara is a writer, comedian, and script supervisor from Bozeman Montana. She performs stand up regularly in the city and created The Camp Sunshine Comedy Hour which she also hosts. She loves having tan feet, being cozy, and X-men. She hates kitten heels, adulterers, and tiramisu.



Dawn Fraser (Performer)
Dawn J. Fraser is a writer, speaker, and storyteller originally from San Jose, CA. She is one of the Co-Founders of the Oakland based nonprofit formerly known as "Art in Action" (currently United Roots Oakland) and has developed performance and leadership programs in countries including Brazil, Jamaica and Ghana. Her stories about growing up as a twin and a first generation Trinidadian have been featured on storytelling shows including The Story Collider and RISK! She also writes and performs for the sketch comedy troupe American Candy. Dawn blogs about everyday musings at www.realitylalaland.com, and is looking forward to hosting a new storytelling show called 'Barbershop Stories' later this year.

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James Braly (Performer)
James is the writer and performer of the monologue Life in a Marital Institution, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, sold-out 59E59 Theaters in New York City, and transferred Off Broadway to the Soho Playhouse. Optioned for film & television by Meredith Vieira Productions, James is currently writing the screenplay adaptation. Life in a Marital Institution is also a forthcoming memoir from St. Martin's Press. His stories have been broadcast nationally on This American Life, NPR and Marketplace, and his essays appear in the recently published anthologies, Afterbirth (St. Martin's Press) and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (W.W. Norton).

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Matt Mercier (Performer)
Matt teaches at Hunter College, where he earned an MFA in Fiction. His work has appeared in The Mississippi Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Glimmer Train, and Rosebud. He's a two-timer Story Slam champ at the Moth and has spun tales at The Story Collider and The Liar Show. In April, he'll be traveling with The Moth Mainstage to tell audiences about his time as the caretaker and head docent of the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in The Bronx. He's also worked as a youth hostel manager in New Mexico, packed salmon in Alaska, and provided showers for homeless men on the Bowery.

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Moe Rosen (Performer)
Moe Rosen is named Moe Rosen. Tonight you'll find out why Robin Gelfenbien (Performer) Robin has written jokes for Rosie O'Donnell and starred in a commercial directed by Spike Lee. Her original comedy songs have played on Sirius Satellite Radio, and her solo show, "My Salvation Has a First Name (A Wienermobile Journey)", premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. Robin has performed at The Moth, RISK!, The Liar Show, and she created the storytelling series, "Yum's the Word", that features her homemade ice cream cakes. Next month she'll be featured in "Oy! Only Six? Why Not More? Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life" along with Henry Winkler and Larry David. www.robingelfenbien.com

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Robin Gelfenbien (Performer)
Robin has written jokes for Rosie O'Donnell and starred in a commercial directed by Spike Lee. Her original comedy songs have played on Sirius Satellite Radio, and her solo show, "My Salvation Has a First Name (A Wienermobile Journey)", premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. Robin has performed at The Moth, RISK!, The Liar Show, and she created the storytelling series, "Yum's the Word", that features her homemade ice cream cakes. Next month she'll be featured in "Oy! Only Six? Why Not More? Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life" along with Henry Winkler and Larry David. www.robingelfenbien.com



Adam Wade (Performer)
Adam is a 17-time Moth StorySlam winner and GrandSlam champion. He hosts the Adam Wade from NH show the second Monday of the month here at Under St. Marks. He also hosts Tales of the Cosmos, first Saturday of the month at at UCBEast and teaches storytelling classes at The Magnet.

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Andy Ross (Performer)
Andy is a comedian, storyteller and illustrator. He hosts the monthly story & variety show Real Characters at McNally Jackson Books in SoHo. He has written for The Onion News Network and Mad Magazine, and created a one man show called Melancomedy.

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Catie Lazarus (Performer)
Catie is a writer and comedian who hosts the monthly variety show Employee of the Month at UCB. She also hosts a puppet show called The On Time Show with Petunia Van Twirp. Catie performs standup and stories and writes for children and adult children.

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John Flynn (Performer)
John is a regular performer at storytelling shows around the city, including The Moth and Nights of Our Lives. He hosts the open mic storytelling show Oh, Hey Guys! every Thursday at 6PM at UCBEast. He is a co-creator of the show "Showgirls: the Best Movie Ever Made", and creator of the internet series "Project Improviser".

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Ophira Eisenberg (Performer)
Ophira was selected as one of New York Magazine's Top 10 Comics, is a regular host and storyteller for the Moth, and hosts the new NPR trivia show Ask Me Another and has appeared on Comedy Central, VH-1, and NPR. Her writing has been published in five anthologies including I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics, and her debut memoir will be available in 2012 from Perseus Books.

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Peter Aguero (Performer)
Peter fronts the hardest drinking improvised rock & roll storytelling band in the whole world, the BTK Band, which performs the second Monday of every month, right here in this very basement. Peter also has a solo storytelling show called The Dark Days.



Diana Spechler (Performer)
Diana is the author of the novels Who by Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011). She has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, GQ, Esquire, and elsewhere. She teaches writing in New York City and for Stanford University's Online Writer's Studio.

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Jeff Simmermon (Performer)
Jeff is a regular performer at NYC storytelling shows. His stories have appeared on This American Life, in the book Post-It Note Diaries, and on his blog andiamnotlying.com. Jeff co-hosts a show by the same name "And I Am Not Lying" at Union Hall in Brooklyn.

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Michelle Markowitz (Performer)
Michelle is a writer, performer, and storyteller in Manhattan and co-hosts the new comedic storytelling shows "Failing Our Twenties" at the PIT Theatre and "Yum's the Word" at KGB Bar. She has told stories at The Moth, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Bitter End, ABC No Rio, and Union Pool among other places. You can find her online at www.michellemarkowitz.com and @michmarkowitz on twitter.

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Olivia Koski (Performer)
Olivia used to make laser weapons. Now she makes stories. She writes the occasional tech article (for Popular Mechanics and Wired), produces documentary art at the Union Docs collaborative, performs subversive acts of education with Guerilla Science, and enhances longform nonfiction for The Atavist, an interactive digital magazine.

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Sara Peters (Performer)
Sara is originally from New Jersey and now lives in Sunnyside, Queens with her charming, maddening husband. Offstage, she is a tech editor. Onstage, she's played a Texan housewife, an Oklahoman spinster, an Irish housekeeper, and an English android. She's told stories for The BTK Band, Story Collider, and the Adam Wade from New Hampshire show, and is a Moth Story Slam winner. Her favorite television show is Naruto, which is a Japanese cartoon about a teenage ninja.



Chuck Klosterman (Performer)
Chuck writes about sports at Grantland.com. He is the author of six books including fiction, nonfiction and essays, most recently the novel The Visible Man.

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Chuck Salter (Performer)
Chuck is a senior writer at Fast Company magazine. His work has also appeared on This American Life and in the New York Times magazine and in Sports Illustrated.

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Ophira Eisenberg (Performer)
OPHIRA EISENBERG was selected as one of New York Magazine's Top 10 Comics, is a regular host and storyteller for the Moth, and has appeared on Comedy Central, VH-1, and NPR. Her writing has been published in five anthologies including I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics, and her debut memoir will be available in 2012 from Perseus Books.

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Rosie Schaap (Performer)
Rosie writes the Drink column for The New York Times Magazine. She has also been a bartender, fortuneteller, librarian at a paranormal society, English teacher, editor, preacher, community organizer, and a manager of homeless shelters. Her work has been broadcast on This American Life, and her memoir, Drinking With Men, is coming soonish from Riverhead Books.

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Tommy Wallach (Performer)
Tommy is a writer and musician living in Brooklyn. His writing has been published in McSweeney's, Wired, Salon, The Huffington Post, Tin House, and some other places. As a musician, he was signed to Decca Records for a while, and played last year at the Guggenheim with OK Go.



Catie Lazarus (Performer)
Catie is a writer and comedian who hosts the monthly variety show Employee of the Month at UCB. She also hosts a puppet show called The On Time Show with Petunia Van Twirp. Catie performs standup and stories and writes for children and adult children.

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Chuck Salter (Performer)
Chuck is a senior writer at Fast Company magazine. His work has also appeared on This American Life and in the New York Times magazine and in Sports Illustrated.

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David Bluvband (Performer)
David performs with the Upright Citizens Brigade improv team Dance Break Tuesdays at UCB Theatre. He also performs around town on several independent improv teams. On TV, he's appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Onion News Network.

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Jim O'Grady (Performer)
Jim is a reporter for WNYC Radio and a Moth GrandSLAM champ. He has worked as a reporter for The New York Times, a professor of journalism at NYU and research director at The Center for an Urban Future, a policy think tank. He is the author of two biographies, Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor and Disarmed & Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan.

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Sarah Rainone (Performer)
Sarah is a writer, editor and comedian. She's the author of the novel Love Will Tear Us Apart. Sarah also plays bass, and grew up in Rhode Island.

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Todd Bieber (Performer)
Todd writes and directs comedy videos and documentaries. His work has been featured in film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and AFI. Time Magazine called one of his videos "Youtube's Greatest Adventure" (Google "Lost Pictures of Blizzard YouTube"). Todd hosts a storytelling show called Animated Stories at UCB East, and another show called Commercial Interruption.



Ed Gavagan (Performer)
ED GAVAGAN tells stories all over town, including the Moth GrandSlam, mainstage and podcast. He is trained as an architect, furniture maker and motorcycle mechanic.

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Jesse Hardman (Performer)
Jesse is a reporter and international media development specialist. His work is featured on National Public Radio, TIME.com, and a number of other national and international media outlets. Hardman has also trained reporters in 10 countries, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and South Africa. He currently teaches at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Columbia's SIPA school.

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Melanie Hamlett (Performer)
Melanie is a writer, storyteller, nomad, and crazy-person-magnet who's usually living in NYC, New Mexico, or on the road somewhere in her truck, which she thinks of as a giant backpack she can drive and sleep in. Melanie is a two-time Moth storyslam champion. In the past she has worked as a white water raft guide, Outward Bound instructor, ski instructor, and construction worker.

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Nathaniel Bates (Performer)
Nathaniel works as a union film set electrician. Over the years he's worked way on "Fahrenheit 9/11", "Broadwalk Empire" and the Jennifer Lopez vehicle "The Back-up Plan" just to name a few. When he's not invading your neighborhood with film gear, he performs both improv and storytelling around the city.



Jeff Simmermon (Performer)
Jeff's stories have been presented at The Moth, on This American Life, and in the illustrated anthlogy Post-It Note Diaries. His online home is andiamnotlying.com

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Jiji Lee (Performer)
Is a writer, performer, and storyteller in NYC. She created the comedy web series Cooking For One which was featured on Bon Appetit.com, Bay Area Bites, and Digital ChickTV. Her play In the Sun was selected and produced at The Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival. She's written for Refinery29, The New Republic, and MAR Magazine. She studies improv and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade.

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Kerri Doherty (Performer)
Is the managing editor and a contributor for the popular Brooklyn blog Fucked in Park Slope. She's been featured on Kevin Allison's Risk! podcast and is currently writing her first book of nonfiction humor essays, titled I'm Sorry, What's Happening?

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Reiss Gaspard (Performer)
A New York based actor, is a long time company member of the critically acclaimed Ground Up and Rising Theatre and a member of the Drafts ensemble at Horse Trade Theatre.

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Samuel Zimmerman (Performer)
Is a contributing editor at Fangoria. Forever scarred by a nurse's jaunt in a hot tub in Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II, Sam grew up in avid fascination of the macabre, cemented by the perfection of An American Werewolf in London and just how well pizza goes with film-viewing. Sam has since found an almost equal enthusiasm for cookies and karaoke.



Ben Davis (Performer)
Is a New York based art critic whose writing has appeared in The Village Voice, AdBusters, ArtNet and other publications. Ben often writes about the real-world implications of art, as distilled in his influential essay "9.5 Theses on Art and Class". Ben is currently deputy editor of ARTINFO.com, where he writes the column "Interventions".

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Boris Timamovsky (Performer)
Came to the US at 19 and has lived in NYC ever since, residing in apartment buildings with greatly varying degrees of rodent infestation. Boris works for a software company and occasionally tells stories from stage.

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Chris Gethard (Performer)
Has been performing comedy in New York for more than ten years, most often at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, where his improv team The Stepfathers performs every Friday night. Chris starred in the Comedy Central series Big Lake and is author of the book Weird NY, detailing ghost stories and urban legends of New York. He founded and regularly performs at the UCB storytelling show The Nights of Our Lives, and hosts The Chris Gethard Show - "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City" - on stage, on tour, and on public access television. Want to be in the studio audience this Wednesday? Email zerolaughs@gmail.com

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David Gavigan (Performer)
Is a New York based architect who has designed and built homes on four continents. He has been featured on The Moth's mainstage and podcast, and several other live storytelling shows.

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Mallory Schlossberg (Performer)
Is an actress/writer with a a BA in Theater and English from SUNY Binghamton. She most recently performed in the sketch/variety show "Help! Let Me Out Of Myself!" at the Broadway Comedy Club. Upcoming NY theater: The Gloria Glitter Show (Broadway Comedy Club), and Hiding in the Girls' Bathroom (Manhattan Rep), of which she is also co-playwright. Mallory studies improv at the Magnet Theater and has recently become very adept at filing and Microsoft Office.



Brian Faas (Performer)
Is a writer, performer, and television producer living in Brooklyn, NY. He has written for several shows on MTV and Vh1, including Best Week Ever, where he also spent three seasons as a panelist. You can see Brian performing every Friday night at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre with the improv group The Law Firm.

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Clay McLeod Chapman (Performer)
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 at Pace University.

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Dave Hill (Performer)
Is a comedian who hosts the live talk show The Dave Hill Explosion and the podcast Dave Hill's Podcasting Incident. He has appeared on a bunch of TV shows and on the public radio program This American Life. Lately he's been tweeting an appropriate amount about Casey Anthony, which means about 200 tweets per day. Dave is also a rock and roll musician.

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Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough (Performer)
Is a writer, filmmaker, performer, and oil magnate originally from North Carolina. She moved to New York a year ago to participate in a Graduate documentary film program at The New School, and in May completed her first documentary short, a 20 minute piece based on her time spent working as a chauffeur for a blind man. She currently blogs about environmental and social issues for The Wild magazine and will hopefully be appearing live in a theatre near you in the coming months as a part of a Mariah Carey based comedy show (yes, that's a thing). Her favorite food is blueberries.

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Hanuman Welch (Performer)
Is a performer and storyteller living in New York. He has studied improv and storytelling at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater here in the city. He can be seen performing with the backline story telling MIMSY every month in Brooklyn. Hanuman plans to spend his summer drinking Negronis and playing Bocci ball the whole time his girlfriend is learning Italian.

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Michael Soviero (Performer)
Was born on September 29th in Manhattan but grew up in the tristate area. Music and food are what keep him alive. If he could eat music, he would. The thought of getting a haircut bothers him so much that he frequently cuts his own hair. Michael owes a lot to his grandfathers, who both shaped the man he is today. He has performed in the Moth GrandSlam, and won their StorySlam twice. You can see some of his work at kevinandmike.com.



Ben Lillie (Performer)
Is a high-energy particle physicist who left the ivory tower for the wilds of New York's theater district. He is co-founder and director of The Story Collider, where people are invited to share their stories of how science has affected their lives. He is also a Moth StorySLAM champion, writes for TED.com, and likes to say that life is different now, largely because it is.

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Danielle La Rocco (Performer)
Is a second year medical student who has always seemed to be a magnet for weirdness, and she wouldn't have it any other way. "I'm getting a CT scan. What's that stuff they shoot up your ass?" asked her elderly neighbor one day, in greeting. Danielle has been thrilled to share her adventures at several storytelling shows in NYC. She would especially like to thank the Greenburg family for celebrating Dan's birthday in the audience!

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David Carmel (Performer)
Is a cognitive neuroscientist. He spends his days trying to figure out how the brain creates consciousness, and his nights trying to remember why he ever thought he could accomplish this. His ideas on the brain and mind have appeared in Scientific American Mind and fivebooks.com, and he has appeared onstage at the Story Collider and Nerd Nite.

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Johnny Pearson (Performer)
Is an emergency room nurse and former paramedic and EMT. He's also the unofficial human mascot of Told, having attended nearly every show.

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Julian McCullough (Performer)
Is a comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central, VH1 and This American Life, and spends most nights warming up the audience at the Colbert Report. In fact, that's why he'll be sneaking in late to the show tonight.



Andy Christie (Performer)
Is creator and host of The Liar Show. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, in snooty literary journals and in the Thomas Beller anthology, Lost And Found: Stories From New York. His true stories have been heard on WFUV's Cityscape, The Moth Mainstage, Podcast and public radio's Peabody Award-winning "The Moth Radio Hour".

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Hillary Frank (Performer)
Is a freelance writer and radio producer. Her radio stories have aired on a variety of public radio programs, including This American Life, Studio 360, and Weekend America. She is the author of the novels Better Than Running at Night, I Can't Tell You, and The View from the Top. Her latest project, The Longest Shortest Time (http://longestshortesttime.com), is a 3 a.m. bedside companion for new parents.

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Marcelle Karp (Performer)
Co-founded Bust Magazine, produced and directed TV for HBO, Lifetime and Fuse, and has written for Spin, Details, and Jane magazines. She's currently working on a novel.

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Tom Shillue (Performer)
Has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, and performed several acclaimed solo shows including the recent production Supernormal. He filmed a Comedy Central special, released an album called Tom Shillue: Overconfident and won the 2011 ECNY award for Best Storyteller. His daughter Agnes is five.



Erin Barker (Performer)
Is a writer, editor, and storyteller living in New York City. Like almost every other young person in this city, she is currently working on a novel. Expect it in stores in 2051. She has studied storytelling and improv under neat people like Margot Leitman, Neil Casey, and Kirk Damato, and she graduated from Ohio University in 2007 with a degree in print journalism that becomes more and more useless with every passing day. Every second Monday of the month, she performs with experimental storytelling team Mimsy at the Pacific Standard in Brooklyn, and she's a producer of science storytelling show, The Story Collider (storycollider.org).

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Joanne Solomon (Performer)
Is a writer/performer. A werformer. She is currently working on a screenplay entitled "The Storyteller." In her off hours she teaches ESL at NYU and jumps around on a bungee , as she is also an aerialist. An aging aerialist. Off Broadway credits include De la Guarda. She is currently working on a show involving ropes and words. Joanne first performed her stories at Luna lounge in 1994. She didn't dream about owning a Murphy Bed nearly as much back then. She had other dreams.

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Kelli Porterfield (Performer)
Is from the plains of East Texas. She studied and performed improv at Second City and ImprovOlympic in Chicago and performs her solo show "Mirror Mirror On The Wall" here in NYC at The Peoples Improv Theater. "Old Cats," a film she produced, was an official selection of The Sundance and New York Film Festivals and will be out in theaters this October. Kelli runs the comedy program at Pace University's Performing Arts Department.

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Leslie Goshko (Performer)
Is a Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, recipient of the NY Fringe Excellence Award, and host of the monthly storytelling series, "Sideshow Goshko" (Time Out NY "Critic's Pick"). Her work has appeared on Sirius XM, WNYC, the NY Metro "Funny Page", and she can be seen performing with New York's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, The BTK Band. http://www.ohmygoshko.com/

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Megan Biscieglia (Performer)
Is singer, songwriter and guitarist in the band Bad Braids, with Jared Stafford-Hill. Their recent EP is titled Arrow and Orb.



Ben Yarrow (Performer)
Was the research director and chief writer for Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and chief speechwriter and spokesperson for former president Bill Clinton as Communications Director for the William J. Clinton Foundation. He now writes for politicians, heads of state and celebrity activists as a partner at West Wing Writers. His hero is Old Gregg.

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Brad Lawrence (Performer)
Host of The Standard Issues Podcast and the occasional Moth, is a writer, performer, MC, and sometime stripper. He is also a member in good standing of an improvised storytelling rock band named after a serial killer. Even though he has clawed his way out of Southern Missouri, being of redneck stock means that he cannot be killed by any conventional means aside from his own stupidity. His tombstone will likely read, "Hey! Watch this!" In spite of his genetic handicaps, he is very clever and entertaining. Verify this at billyjoesboy.com and thestandardissues.com

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Cammi Climaco (Performer)
Is a visual artist and co-host of the storytelling variety show Ask Me. She has exhibited her mixed-media sculpture, performances and videos nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. She has performed on The Moth and Risk! She teaches at Pratt Institute of Art. Ask Me has a podcast on iTunes. If you ask her (haha) she'll tell you that Ben Bernanke might be some sort of Hungarian side dish that goes well with goulash or maybe an alternative to spreadable butter. She's going to look it up on wikipedia.

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Jefferson (Performer)
Is the pseudonym of a New York-based writer. Since 2004, his blog "One Life, Take Two" has documented his double life as a parent and pervert. He has been a columnist for Gawker's Fleshbot and his writing is included in several anthologies. As a sex educator, he has taught at TES, Dark Odyssey, Winter Fire and Floating World. His storytelling appearances include the Moth, StoryCollider, Storytelling at Perch and New York Confidential. This is his first time on the TOLD stage.

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Jim O'Grady (Performer)
Has worked as a reporter for The New York Times, professor of journalism at NYU and research director at The Center for an Urban Future, a policy think tank. He is now a reporter for WNYC Radio. He has won eight Moth storyslams and a Moth GrandSLAM, and has told a story on This American Life. He has a message for all you hatahs out there... but he forgets what it is.



Aaron Wolfe (Performer)
Aaron lives in Brooklyn and is a film & TV editor, musician, writer, and general trivia whiz. He is a Moth StorySLAM winner and a columnist for usedfurntiturereview.com where he creates an annotated mixtape about his life. Special skills: accidentally adopting other people's accents, worrying about conversations with barbers, and ordering dim sum.

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David Ellis Dickerson (Performer)
David performs stories at shows all over the city, is a frequent contributor to This American Life, and wrote the 2009 memoir House of Cards. The subtitle? The True Story of How a 26-Year-Old Fundamentalist Virgin Learned about Life, Love and Sex by Writing Greeting Cards.

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Elna Baker (Performer)
Elna is a comedian, storyteller, and writer. Her book The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance was published by Penguin in 2009. She has performed with The Moth, on This American Life, Studio 360, Radiolab, BBC Radio 4, at the Upright Citizens Brigade, The PIT, The Magnet and at many other comedy clubs throughout New York City. She's written for ELLE Magazine, GLAMOUR, Five Dials and The Onion. She also appeared in The New Yorker, or a really bad picture of her did, but hey, that counts.

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Jesse Cameron Alick (Performer)
Jesse is a poet, playwright and Zen Master. Jesse works as the Artistic Director for Subjective Theatre Company and the east coast editor of High Contrast Review. Jesse studied writing with playwright Adrienne Kennedy and taught a theater course at Lewis and Clark College. His essays, articles and poetry have appeared in XY, A&U, POZ, The Errorist, Courier Life, Smokin Word Publications and Random House. Jesse's play Turncoats was workshopped in the spring at the Old Vic Theatre in London as part of their young artist exchange program and his play Come Back to Me was performed in the Shakespeare in Paradise festival in the Bahamas fall 2010.

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Michele Carlo (Performer)
Michele is a writer/performer who has lived in four of the five boroughs of NYC and remembers when a slice of pizza cost fifty cents. She has been published in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood's Lost & Found: Stories From New York, Chicken Soup For The Latino Soul and SMITH magazine, and told her stories everywhere a person can tell stories in NYC - including the MOTH Mainstage. Her memoir, Fish Out Of Agua: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks, was published by Citadel Press in August 2010. www.michelecarlo.com



Kevin Allison (Performer)
Kevin hosts RISK!, a live storytelling show and a podcast featuring stories people never thought they'd dare to share. Kevin was a member of the sketch comedy group The State, and has appeared on Reno 911!, Flight of the Conchords and several other TV shows. He also teaches comedy writing at The PIT.

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Malaika Gordon (Performer)
Malaika is a storyteller and all around nice girl from Bakersfield, California. She's been telling stories around New York City since 2007 at places like The Moth, Speakeasy Stories, Shrink, 1001 Nights and more. You should introduce her to your parents. Parents love her.

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Martin Dockery (Performer)
Martin will be touring for a total of six months in 2011, performing five different hour-long autobiographical monologues, as well as writing and acting in a two-person play in a whole lot of cities across North America. The whole thing kicks off in February, when Martin will travel to Australia to perform Wanderlust (a monologue about traveling in West Africa) at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the second-largest theater festival in the world.

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Melissa Gira Grant (Performer)
Melissa is the editor of Coming & Crying, a collection of real stories about sex. She's written for Valleywag, Jezebel, Gawker, Slate, The Frisky, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and has performed at In the Flesh, Eyebeam, the National Queer Arts Festival and the Red Umbrella Diaries.

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Steven Puente (Performer)
Steven grew up in a rural Northern Californian town on a five acre blueberry farm and hates blueberry pancakes. He currently works as a substance abuse counselor in the Bronx. He moved to New York to pursue a Masters Degree in Social Work and paid NYU way to much money for the privilege. You may have seen Steven telling stories around New York City, including at Moth events. He never tires of hearing a heartfelt story and in the near future will be invoicing people for it.



Becky Ferreira (Performer)
Becky Ferreira is a Canadian writer and comedian based in New York. Her work has appeared in Popular Science, Bust, The L Magazine,Glamour.com and theAwl.com amongst others, and she is the host of the science-themed comedy show Rocket Talk. Becky created the scientific discipline of paleocosmology, the study of dinosaurs in space. Becky is a purebred raptor.

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Ed Gavigan (Performer)
Ed has appeared on The Moth's mainstage, podcast and radio show. He has also designed and built homes and furniture on four continents. Ed has lived in New York City since Ed Koch was mayor.

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Jeff Grow (Performer)
Jeff has performed magic in films, national and international commercials, and live shows throughout New York City and Europe. His most recent production, Creating Illusion, received two New York Innovative Theatre Awards: Outstanding Solo Performer & Outstanding Performance Art Production. In addition to performing he consults on original creative content for film, commercials and theatre.

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Melanie Maras (Performer)
Melanie is a writer and producer. Her play Kiss Me on The Mouth, a 2010 Princess Grace Award semi-finalist, was directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis and produced by InViolet Repertory Theater Company in November 2009 at Center Stage New York. Melanie was associate producer on the Dan Klores film Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, which premiered at Sundance 2010; and producer on the upcoming feature I'm Not Me, directed by Rodrigo Lopresti and Zak Mulligan, which was a participant in the IFP Filmmaker Lab 2010. Currently, Melanie is developing new works for the screen and stage. Melanie is a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio.

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Nisse Greenberg (Performer)
Nisse was under five feet tall until he was 15 years old. He also wore a size one shoe for his entire 5th grade year. Now he complains about how he wasn't good at complaining then, and would have been much better at dealing with that situation now. He hosts Storytelling at Perch on the 4th Monday of every month, is a part of the sketch comedy duo "Rachel and the Elf" and blogs regularly about Nicki Minaj, his bowel movements, and gender identity at whatitbebitches.wordpress.com



Adam Wade (Performer)
Adam is host and star of the monthly Adam Wade from NH Show, the second Monday of every month right here at the Under St. Marks Theater (Time Out NY Magazine's Critic's pick). He's a record 16-time StorySLAM winner and two-time GrandSLAM Champion at The Moth. http://adamwade.com

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Dave Ritz (Performer)
Dave is an actor, performer and storyteller who lives in Manhattan. He recently starred in the independent feature film 86Fatboy and has appeared in The Moth Storyslam and other local story shows. He also is a food enthusiast and an unemployed waiter. Dave can tell you where to find the hottest new dining establishments in NYC because he is a licensed NYC Sightseeing Guide. He can also tell you where to find salmonella and mouse droppings because he holds a NYC Food Protection Certificate. He is simply a semi-legend in his own lunchtime.

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Melanie Hamlett (Performer)
Melanie is a writer and storyteller who prefers living in her truck for reasons even she doesn't understand. She travels around the country, taking pictures and writing stories about her adventures on the road with random strangers. You can see these at http://melaniehamlett.com. Some other fun facts: she's narcoleptic, was named after a character in Gone With The Wind, and wears an "eating shirt" at mealtimes because she's messy and doesn't want to ruin her shirt-shirts.

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Randi Newton (Performer)
Randi was featured in an April 2009 New York Post cover story about women stripping in times of an economic crisis. She has also appeared internationally to speak about the recession and the gentlemen's club industry. Randi has been featured in Radar Magazine, Penthouse Magazine (fully dressed) and on several TV news shows. She's also appeared as a panelist multiple times on FOX News The Strategy Room, and went face to face with Bill O'Reilly on the "The O'Reilly Factor". Newton has appeared on the TV shows "Howard TV On Demand", "The Sopranos", "Nip/Tuck", and the films "Mona Lisa Smile", "Sean Lennon's Friendly Fire", and most recently the Darby Crash biopic "What We Do is Secret". She's also appeared onstage at "Stripped Stories", and "Sex Workers Literati".



Boris Timanovsky (Performer)
Boris came to the US 20 years ago. As a child he gave little thought to what he wanted to be when he grew up, and as a result he now makes a living managing the development of financial software. In his spare time he tells stories, none of which have anything to do with finances, software, or management.

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Deidre Rodman Struck (Performer)
Deidre is an Idaho native, mother, singer/songwriter, and former circus musician. She has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Natalie Merchant and The Jazz Passengers. Deidre has released three jazz CDs and a new pop EP, Circle. She also sings and plays keyboard with children's band/all-girl band The Itty Biddies/Lascivious Biddies in conjunction with Carnegie Hall's CarnegieKids/Musical Connections program. www.deidrerodman.com

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John Urquhart (Performer)
JOHN URQUHART makes experimental videos in San Francisco. He enjoys animated gifs and drawings of animals. John curates assignment-based, collective artwork at his website A Quite Moment Amongst Friends: http://www.quietmoment.org/

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Matthea Harvey (Performer)
Matthea is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Cirlcle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. Her first children's book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel, was published by Tin House Books. Matthea is a contributing editor to jubilat, Meatpaper and BOMB. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn. http://www.mattheaharvey.info/

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Penny Pollak (Performer)
Penny is an NYC based writer and performer. She is planning a US tour of her solo play No Traveler, which received glowing reviews in this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. You can see Penny perform all over NYC, from storytelling to physical theater. For the past three years she's hosted Penny's Open Mic right here at UNDER St. Marks Theater. The show is an ANYTHING open mic for all artists of any kind, and has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine and Backstage.com. www.pennypollak.com

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Steven Berkowitz (Performer)
Steven is a writer, storyteller and propagandist. Once a reporter and editor for technology magazines you never heard of, you can now find him performing at storytelling shows throughout the city, a nasty habit he supports by producing videos designed to make employees feel good about working for really big companies. He blogs infrequently at www.stevenberkowitz.org.

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Ted McAdams (Performer)
Ted has studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and People's Improv Theater and has been performing stories in New York since 2008. He co-hosts the storytelling show "1,001 Nights" at the Creek in Long Island City in his hometown borough of Queens, NY. He is a big fan of comic books, video games, and having those dreams where you think you're awake, but you're really not.



Dan Nuxoll (Performer)
Dan is Program Director of Rooftop Films, which began on his Bushwick roof in the late 90s and is now one of the most innovative and well-attended film festivals in the US. On the rare occasions that Dan has time outside of Rooftop, he works as a director, producer, composer and sound designer for films including the feature documentary "Kiss My Snake". He is currently working on a new documentary feature entitled "Island of Destruction," about a mysterious person who may have been running ethically suspect film festivals for decades. That's also what his story is about tonight. rooftopfilms.org

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David Crabb (Performer)
David co-hosts the storytelling show Ask Me Stories, and is story producer for RISK!. David is currently working on his one-person show "Emergency Service", set to open in early 2011. He has been a member of the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway Axis Company since 2001, starring in and developing plays with the company in Paris and Edinburgh. David attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he obtained an interdisciplinary MFA in performance, video art, and photography. askmestories.com/

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Giulia Rozzi (Performer)
Giulia is a NYC based comedian, actress and writer who's appeared on MTV, VH1, Italian MTV, CNN and Jimmy Kimmel. She is the co-host of the popular sex-themed storytelling show Stripped Stories at the UCB Theatre in NYC. Giulia has written for Playgirl, NY Press, Gawker, Huffington Post, Lemondrop, and is currently working on a memoir. Recently she released her first comedy album "A Very Pretty Name" on iTunes and Amazon. giuliarozzi.com

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Rob Asaro (Performer)
Rob is an NYC based writer and comedian. He performs sketch comedy with Chocolate Cake City, improv comedy with the Marty, and stand up at venues including Caroline's, Comix and The Comic Strip. Rob attended Emerson College and has studied comedy with The Groundlings, Second City, and the Upright Citizens Brigade. His writing has appeared on MTV and various Internet humor sites. wemakethefunny.com



Anthony Atamanuik (Performer)
Anthony 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.

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Brad Lawrence (Performer)
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."

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Ian Roberts (Performer)
Ian is a founding member of The Upright Citizens Brigade. He performed regularly on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 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

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Nicole Drespel (Performer)
Nicole 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.

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Ophira Eisenberg (Performer)
Ophira is an NYC-based stand-up comedian and storyteller. She has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and VH1's Best Week Ever, and is a regular performer at The Moth and The Liar Show.



Christopher Scott (Performer)
Improvisers & honest to goodness couple CHRISTOPHER SCOTT & NICOLE DRESPEL (UCB Theater)

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Mary Crosbie (Performer)
Husband and wife cabaret duo & public access TV royalty Moe Rosen and Mary Crosbie

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Melanie Hamlett (Performer)
Moth grandslammer MELANIE HAMLETT, on why she's up on stage alone.

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Moe Rosen (Performer)
Husband and wife cabaret duo & public access TV royalty Moe Rosen and Mary Crosbie

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Nicole Drespel (Performer)
Improvisers & honest to goodness couple CHRISTOPHER SCOTT & NICOLE DRESPEL (UCB Theater)



Adam Wade (Performer)
Adam is a record 15-time Moth StorySlam winner and repeat GrandSlam winner. He hosts his own monthly storytelling show right here at Under St. Mark's - The Adam Wade From New Hampshire Show, second Monday of every month. adamwade.com Dr.

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Dr. Nicholas Kardars (Performer)
DR. NICHOLAS KARDARSis a private psychotherapist and clinical professor of psychology at the Graduate School of Stony Brook University. His book How Plato and Pythagoras Can Save Your Life: The Ancient Greek Prescription for Health, Happiness and Personal Transformation is forthcoming from Conari Press.

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Jeff Simmermon (Performer)
Jeff is a regular performer at storytelling shows all over the city, including The Moth, The Liar Show and Stories at the Creek. He has been featured on This American Life, and can be found online at his blog andiamnotlying.com

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Leslie Goshko (Performer)
Leslie is a comedian, storyteller and musician. She hosts the monthly show Sideshow Goshko the third Thursday of every month, 7:30 PM at Comix. Her one woman show Vodka Shoes returns to Under St. Mark's on July 2nd at 10:30 PM. Plus you can see her playing piano with the improv storytelling rock group BTK Band, and in Cornelia Street Cafe's Summer Storytelling Festival in August. ohmygoshko.com

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Margot Leitman (Performer)
Margot performs stories all over, including at Stripped Stories, the sex-themed storytelling show she co-hosts with Giulia Rozzi, which you can see at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater on July 24th. She also teaches storytelling at UCB, and has a forthcoming memoir about growing up as the most un-Jersey girl on the Jersey shore. strippedstories.com margotleitman.com

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Peter Aguero (Performer)
Peter is a Moth GrandSlam winner and front man of The BTK Band, the hardest drinking improv storytelling rock band in the whole fucking world. They host a show right here, second Monday of each month right after Adam Wade's show.



Alex Stone (Performer)
Alex is writing a book on the underground world of magic. He's also a graduate student in physics at Columbia University.

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Brian "Beezy" Douglas (Performer)
Brian is a jack of all trades, master of none. In early 2009, after over ten years resisting the advice of legendary comic Bill Hicks and not killing himself due to working in the advertising industry, Beezy dove head first into the NYC open mic circuit. In that time he's performed music all over Manhattan and Brooklyn. Since January 2010, he has produced a monthly house show, The Beezy Douglas Carnivale that has been called the new center of gravity in New York and the way the world should be. Follow along with the ride at bzdug.com

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Chris Kipiniak (Performer)
Chris is an actor and writer working out of New York. His plays have included Stalled, Save The World, The Nature of the Beast, IIIINSAAAAAAAANE! and others. His new 10-minute play, Change the Be will be part of the upcoming Drafts Fest, produced by Horse Trade Theater Group at the Red Room. His travel story, "Magic Carpet Ride" was published in the anthology Encounters With the Middle East and he has written the comic books Nightcrawler, Amazing Fantasy, and Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man for Marvel Comics. As an actor he's appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and WAY off-off-Broadway, as well as regionally and internationally. He currently works on The Smoking Gun Presents . . . on TruTV.

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Mia Lipsit (Performer)
Mia has just returned to New York after spending the past year traveling in Asia and stepping in lava. She has read her letters to Rick Springfield at Cringe and Mortified. She has other stories, too, but mostly people ask her about the lava, which, yes, hurt quite a lot.

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Michelle Leona (Performer)
Avant accordian brain smash.

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Rakexn Satyal (Performer)
Is the author of the novel Blue Boy and has been published in a variety of anthologies, including the Lambda Award-winning The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers. Satyal is currently an editor at HarperCollins and a member of the planning committee of the PEN World Voices Festival. In his spare time, Satyal sings jazz music.

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Sarah Rainone (Special Guest)
Host Guest

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Sheila Kurtz (Performer)
SHEILA KURTZ,The founder and president of Graphology Consulting Group is a consultant as a master graphologist and graphotherapist to an international clientele, Fortune 500 companies, and individuals. A lecturer and teacher in the business, therapeutic, criminal investigation and academic fields, she has been honored as Entrepreneur of the Year by the Finanical Women's Association of New York and appointed Chief Graphology Officer of The Pilot Pen Corporation. Her books on the scientific method of interpreting personality by examining personal script include Graphotypes: Change Your Handwriting, Change Your Life, Handwriting Analysis For Lovers, and Rewrite Your Life.



Curtis Eller (Performer)
Curtis (Wirewalkers & Assasins, http://www.curtiseller.com/) plays banjo and sings songs with titles like "Save Me, Joe Louis" and "Always Sugar for the Bosses.

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Heather Fife (Performer)
Heather Upright Citizens Brigade) describes a contest of wills with Stephanie, an irregular Christian soldier, for the hearts and minds of the students of Xian, China.

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Jim O'Grady (Special Guest)
JIM O'GRADY (NY Times, Moth Grandslam Champion) guest hosts.

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John Murdock (Performer)
John (Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag - Frigid Fest NY 2010) dilates on the manifest absurdity of his profession: NYC tour guide on a double-decker bus.

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Kevin Baker (Performer)
Kevin (Author, Dreamland, Paradise Alley and other historical novels) speaks of his beloved mother in the paradoxical context of Salem witchery.

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Suzanne Wasserman (Performer)
Suzanne (The Gotham Center for NYC History at The CUNY Graduate Center) relates how she dropped all to fly to Guyana and record her cousin Janet's run for the presidency.



Becky Sterling (Performer)
Actor BECKY STERLING has run until she can't anymore.

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Ed Gavagan (Performer)
Superhero ED GAVAGAN hangs on the razor's edge of destruction.

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John Flynn (Performer)
Gad-about-town JOHN FLYNN told a lie once and became a legend.

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Peter Aguero (Performer)
Peter Aguero 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.

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Sara Peters (Performer)
Tech Writer SARA PETERS tells of a wish that seems impossible to come true.

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WITH THESE FLESH-BARING LOVELIES: (Performer)
MISS MARY CYN! SIZZLE DIZZLE! MAGDALENA FOX! JENNY C'EST QUOI! PLUS! Stage Kitten Brad Lawrance.



Chris Scott (Performer)
CHRIS SCOTT performs longform improv comedy with Gusto!, Nicole & Chris and Thank You, Robot. He regularly writes novels for National Novel Writing Month, and shares his thoughts about this fine world on twangofthevoid.blogspot.com. He owns lots of Legos.

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David Ellis Dickerson (Performer)
DAVID ELLIS DICKERSON recently published a memoir called "House of Cards: Love, Faith and other Social Expressions". He performs stories all over town, has contributed several times to This American Life, and is working on his second book.

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Jen Lee (Performer)
JEN LEE never got the memo about big city life, and treats her Park Slope walk-up like Little House on the Prairie. A resident expert on trailer-parks and church potlucks, Jen hails from Denver, Colorado, where her mother would be aghast to hear the stories she dares to tell now. You can often find her onstage at The Moth, or online at jenlee.net.

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Jill Marie Morris (Performer)
JILL MARIE MORRIS is a comedian who contributes to The Onion and writes sketches for UCB. She also works on pleasefireme.com and helps Todd Gallagher with the blog for his second book "Todd Vs. High School" (Todd is 33 and going back to high school this semester).

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John Murdock (Performer)
JOHN MURDOCK is not your Father's balloon man. A straight man in a gay world, a feminist in the sex industry, a ridiculous man in a ridiculous world. Look for Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag at FRIGID New York March 24th- February 7th.

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Sara Schaefer (Performer)
SARA SCHAEFER is a writer and stand up comedian. She's currently head blogger and researcher at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Sara also hosts an awesome comedy show called Get Off Your Knees, at The Bell House in Brooklyn.



Eliza Skinner (Performer)
Uber-talented improviser/performer ELIZA SKINNER (I Eat Pandas, Baby Wants Candy) tells how this one day stared out pretty normal (you know, not hyper-violent) and ended quite the opposite (you know, hyper-violent).

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Jacob Cummings (Performer)
Plus some communiqu?©s from JACOB CUMMINGS, who blogs about mixed martial arts. That's the Ultimate Fighting Championship stuff, where people are seriously kicking the hell out of each other. How do people take those kicks to the head and get right back up? We will find out.

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Jamie Kilstein (Performer)
Powerhouse stand up comedian JAMIE KILSTEIN(McSweeny's, Huffington Post, Citizen Radio) tells about the crazy realization he recently had about his lifelong fight with his dad.

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Jeff Simmermon (Performer)
Super-duper storyteller JEFF SIMMERMON (This American Life, The Moth) about what happens after you win " kind of " the biggest fight of your life, and how to deal with the fact that you don't know whether you even really won. Especially since you feel like a giant loser.



Adam Wade (Performer)
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).

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Juliet Jeske (Performer)
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.

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Leslie Goshko (Performer)
Leslie 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.

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Martin Dockery (Performer)
Martin with a story about maybe the saddest party ever thrown. Martin performs all over town, and tours with his award-winning solo shows.

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Tracy Rowland (Performer)
Tracy 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!



Andy Christie (Performer)
Andy 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

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Cyndi Freeman (Performer)
Cyndi 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

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Jeremy Bent (Performer)
Jeremy 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.

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John Knefel (Performer)
John 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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Juliet Wayne (Performer)
Juliet 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.

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Molly Knefel (Performer)
Molly 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.



EVERY PERFORMER WHO HAS TOLD A STORY ALL YEAR. (Performer)
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?



Burke Heffner (Performer)
Burke 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.

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Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez (Performer)
Eugene 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.

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James Braly (Performer)
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 Nights 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.

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Sarah Rainone (Performer)
Sarah 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.

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The B.T.K. Band (Performer)
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.



Anthony Atamanuik (Performer)
Anthony 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.

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Brad Lawrence (Performer)
Brad 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."

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Ian Roberts (Performer)
Ian is a founding member of The Upright Citizens Brigade. He performed regularly on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 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.

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Ophira Eisenberg (Performer)
Ophira is an NYC-based stand-up comedian and storyteller. She has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and VH1's Best Week Ever, and is a regular performer at The Moth and The Liar Show.



Chris Kipiniak (Performer)
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.

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Daisy Rosario (Performer)
Moth Grandslammer DAISY ROSARIO tells about a crazy drug trip... not the kind you're thinking.

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Jeff Simmermon (Performer)
And JEFF SIMMERMON who just had a story on TAL last week, tells about heading Down Under... to be a hired killer. For real.

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Melanie Hamlett (Performer)
Plus, if the tech gods are with us, MELANIE HAMLET will join us between stories via live video feed, to report in on her current cross-country adventure living in her truck.



Charlie Bethel (Performer)
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.

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Michelle Leona (Performer)
Michelle 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.

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Rick Blunt (Performer)
Rick 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.

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Steve Zimmer (Performer)
Steve is an aging yuppie from the Midwest. He is a recent winner ofthe Moth Grandslam storytelling championship.



Adam Wade (Performer)
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

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Donn Lind (Performer)
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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Jake Goldman (Performer)
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.

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Tracy Rowland (Performer)
"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.



Chris Fabricant (Performer)
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.

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John Flynn (Performer)
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

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Lindsey Hope Pearlman (Performer)
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.

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Peter Aguero (Performer)
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.

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Robert Burke (Performer)
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.



Janet Horton (Performer)
Master tarot reader JANET HORTON tells fortunes. Live on stage!

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Jim O'Grady (Performer)
JIM O'GRADY(Moth GrandSlam winner, NY Times) tells a story that he assures us will be on theme.

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John Flynn (Performer)
John 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

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Lindsey Hope Pearlman (Performer)
Linsdey 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.

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Margot Leitman (Performer)
Margot Leitman played the cult favorite character Gynoblast on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", in addition to appearances on VH1's "Best Week Ever", ESPN's "Cheap Seats", Comedy Central, and MTV. Most recently she can be heard as the voice of "Fox" on the new Spike TV cartoon "The Team", and as a featured comedian on Comedy Central.com's "Weekly Evil". Every month she and Giulia Rozzi co-host the wildly popular sex-themed storytelling show "Stripped Stories". She currently teaches storytelling through the UCB Theatre.

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Michele Carlo (Performer)
Michele Carlo has lived in four of the five boroughs of NYC and remembers when a slice of pizza cost fifty cents. Her stories have been published in several anthologies, and she is the recent winner of Smith Magazine's Next Door Neighbor Contest. As part of NYC's storytelling community, Michele appears with The Moth (two-time GrandSlammer and MainStage), L.E.S. Stories, Speakeasy and The LIAR Show. Her own series, "GeT LiT", will debut later this spring. She is currently finishing a memoir, Red Sheep, about growing up multi-culti in 1970s NYC (Citadel Press, 2010). www.michelecarlo.com

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Peter Aguero (Performer)
Peter 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.

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PJ Vogt (Performer)
PJ VOGT(On the Media), determines whether or not you should follow your dreams. Like, the dreams you have while sleeping.



Carter Edwards (Performer)
Carter 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.

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Faye Lane (Performer)
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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Martin Dockery (Performer)
Martin is a frequent performer at The Moth, Speakeasy Stories and the Liar show. He's debuting a new full length show "The Surprise", as part of the NY Frigid Fest. It will play several times in late February and Early March at The Kraine Theatre.

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Melanie Hamlett (Performer)
Melanie 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.



Aidan O’Shea (Performer)
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 Nights 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.

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David Dickerson (Performer)
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.

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Faye Lane (Performer)
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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Pia Wilson (Performer)
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.



Andy Christie (Performer)
"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 Wasn't 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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Elna Baker (Performer)
"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.

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Harry Prichett (Performer)
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.

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Katie Cercone (Performer)
"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



Arthur Jones (Performer)
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.

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Chris Gethard (Performer)
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 O'Brien, and is the author of 'Weird New York'.

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Clay McLeod Chapman (Performer)
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.

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Joan Tick and her band TREASURE (Performer)
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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Starlee Kine (Performer)
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 "It IS Your Fault".