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Asher Novek, Producer Asher has been a storytelling performer and producer for the past 4 years. He has lead community workshops with the Moth, Civic Hall, and the Field Innovation Team. He coaches and directed solo shows, and produces a monthly show in Brooklyn for the past 3+ years. He produces the storytelling podcast, The Whole Story, looking behind the scenes of the storytelling world. He's also a professional community organizer, working closely with several local organizations around political organizing and channeling the recent resistance energy towards tangible progress. This festival really looks to combine both of his passions - community organizing and storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1497971893640-BUQNOB23XR8OHW3D3WK3/image-asset.jpeg 2017 Festival - Nicole Ferraro Nicole Ferraro has performed in several storytelling series including WORD, Sideshow Goshko, Story Collider, Stoops to Nuts, BadyHouse Concert Series, NoName @ WordUp, and more, and she's appeared twice on The Story Collider podcast. She is also cohost of New York Story Exchange, a monthly storytelling series at Cornelia Street Cafe. Her solo show WHY SO MUCH SHAME? earned three awards and an extension in the 2016 Frigid Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1497971952243-QP59NAIFKRWCLORWHDDG/image-asset.png 2017 Festival - Anita Flores Anita Flores has written and produced for Flama, Above Average, Nerve, Paste magazine, and Laughspin. She is currently on tour with Awkward Sex and the City. She has a Youtube channel called QuesoDigital where she makes funny videos with her friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1497972171782-1CWBFB0RWOKRKC4237EW/Larry+Rosen+-+1.jpg 2017 Festival - Larry Rosen Larry Rosen is master instructor with The Moth. 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Since its founding in 2003, artists who have come through The Tank include Alex Timbers, Amy Herzog, Lucy Alibar, Mike Daisey, Reggie Watts, Kyle Abraham, Andrew Bujalski, We Are Scientists, and tens of thousands of others. https://www.speakupriseup.com/donations daily 0.75 2018-08-07 https://www.speakupriseup.com/contact daily 0.75 2018-06-08 https://www.speakupriseup.com/partners-1 daily 0.75 2018-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1526388604734-KLJR4DTE3GQ54LOAKGDG/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1499708926223-SORAW3AK1K50VNLSK22R/image-asset.jpeg Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1531796936616-DUHOO6FI6PUX124ZF18L/GOLD+Comedy%28R%29+Logo+%281%29.jpg Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1531797289093-104BOUXUY86G08AYO6EQ/Screen+Shot+2018-07-16+at+11.14.17+PM.png Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1501604179269-CO74PRIY8ZJP1TU32IPP/image-asset.png Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1501604227578-84DU9XFPLOGKCJNRWA45/image-asset.png Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1499709003764-195WQ7RSQSJVQL6CG8LL/image-asset.png Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1500497384539-HWC3K0LYR710RBPDF6UY/image-asset.jpeg Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1499982258864-QBK3KHI4W6254C4UQ7AN/image-asset.jpeg Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1500499147767-J2XQAUTFN787YV50EEKM/image-asset.png Partners & Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1501012300851-A2CTPRDYF2PAVALBVEHY/image-asset.png Partners & Sponsors https://www.speakupriseup.com/2018-festival daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1519573662523-LYZVAFQZLMB475L68GZV/gastor+almonte+headshot.jpg Board of Directors - Gastor Almonte Gastor Almonte keeps busy. He is an award-winning storyteller, standup comedian, show producer and host. He’s an active member of the New York City comedy scene, and can been seen nightly at various clubs on the east coast. He’s appeared on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, the New York Time’s featured The Liar Show, and The Story Collider. As the host Stoops2Stages, a weekly interview series, Gastor interviews various HipHop artist and comedians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1519573716381-PEFD6BALARXKOR0N7NQR/Screen+Shot+2018-02-25+at+10.35.27+AM.png Board of Directors - David Crabb David Crabb is an LA & NYC-based author, performer, storyteller & host of The Moth. In 2013, his solo show Bad Kid was named a New York Times Critics' Pick. Bad Kid the memoir was released last year by Harper Perennial. David was one of 7 performers chosen by Time Out New York for their 2013 New York Comedy Festival line-up. The Wall Street Journal praised him as a performer capable of guiding a crowd "from belly laughs to pin-drop silence." David has been a member of NYC's Axis Company Theatre since 2003, developing original material in New York, Paris and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Since 2012 he has performed the solo pieces Bad Kid, $1800, Story Roulette & Man In A Hole. His next memoir, Whoever You Are I Hope You're Okay, comes out in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1519573785400-DK11IFFIM05P72VQPTY2/milia+fisher+headshot.jpeg Board of Directors - Malia Fisher Malia Fisher is Co-Founder and President of Defiant Network. Defiant is a nonprofit community dedicated to helping the next generation imagine a better world.. Defiant believes that in order to make politics work for the 21st century, we need to find creative ways for people to make meaningful contributions to the political system online. Defiant is currently working to build a digital platform to crowdsource a political manifesto -- a platform for the future of the progressive movement. Learn more at www.defiantnetwork.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1519573879004-C473NU38BU4CRT6YL5VH/sherryheadshot.jpg Board of Directors - Sherry Hakimi Sherry Hakimi is the Executive Director of genEquality, a nonprofit organization dedicated to activating gender equality with and for everyone. Her work is fueled by her research-driven belief that we can collectively design our way out of sexism. Part-national security nerd, part-gender equality activist, Sherry's writing has been published in the Kennedy School Review and Fast Company, among others. Her passion for community organizing began as a CityYear volunteer during high school, and has been sustained and maintained by her deep love of creating, and crossing off, her many to-do lists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1519573921673-A6Q3WUZWJE3HM40D2433/susan+kent+headshot.jpg Board of Directors - Susan Kent Susan Kent is a writer, storyteller and show curator who’s been performing and producing work in NYC for nearly a decade. She’s storytelling curator for The Tank and her work has appeared on Snap Judgment, RISK! and The Moth Radio Hour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1519573952639-1O83TLPRK455BXAP12GM/andrew+slack+headshot.jpg Board of Directors - Andrew Slack Andrew Slack is the Civic Imagination Fellow at Civic Hall, and also an Ashoka Fellow. He is a practitioner of cultural acupuncture and the founder of Imagine Better, where he has directed campaigns around Star Wars and money in politics, Back to the Future and imagination, Superman and immigration, the Hunger Games and economic inequality, and begun to remix holidays with projects like #TeachMeYouDid and assisting in Esther Day. He started his work on Imagine Better in creating the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) where he served as Executive Director, Movement Director, and Board of Directors president for 10 years. While at the HPA, he helped direct campaigns that have sent five cargo planes to Haiti, allowed all Harry Potter chocolate to be either Utz or Fair Trade certified, and started a chapters program that now boasts close to 300 chapters in over 30 countries on six continents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1519587354546-60LAYZWHOZ6RK01ECY5E/HEADSHOT.jpg Board of Directors - Asher Novek, Producer Asher is a community organizer, tech designer, media producer, storyteller, storytelling coach, and occasional wedding officiant. Asher is involved in local political and community organizing, using tech. He is a member of his Community Board and newly minted President of the Central Brooklyn Independent Democratic club, and a facilitator of the Civic Activism working groups within Get Organized Brooklyn. He is passionate about community engagement in local issues, and working with communities to amplify their voices. 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She's the editor of BURN IT DOWN, an anthology of essays on women's anger from Seal Press, and her writing has been published by Longreads, The Rumpus, Off Assignment, The Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. Lilly is a high school drop-out with a master's degree, and she spends way too much time on twitter (where you can find her at @lillydancyger). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570666687063-CABCRRF5ZE45LR7MN77X/p.c.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - PAULA CROXSON: Paula Croxson is a neuroscientist, science communicator and musician. She is the Associate Director for Public Programs at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, and Senior Producer at The Story Collider. She is also the flautist in alternative rock band Marlowe Grey and nerdy rock band Pavlov’s Dogz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570669563737-GWQYECO01TEJDTYZHPLB/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - Vicki Eastus: Lawyer, teacher, feminist. As a lawyer, I represented more than 1500 women in the largest (successful!) sex discrimination lawsuit against the federal government. I now teach law students how to tell their clients’ stories. Storytelling is part of my activism and how I’ve gotten to know some of the best people I’ve ever met. I always carry voter registration forms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570670473000-07ZXT1X05KS5ZPTFIRL2/Berlin.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Bryan Berlin: Bryan Berlin is a storyteller based in New York City who has written for everything from sketch comedy to reality TV. He's a Moth StorySLAM winner and the creator and host of Love Hurts, a podcast where guests come on and share stories of the tough relationships in their lives. Find more info at bryanberlin.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570671195996-4B1SBT2PCTM64GIO55QH/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - Tracey Starin: Tracey Starin is a writer and storyteller from Queens. She has told stories all over NYC, and beyond, including Prose of Pie, GetherNYC, and RISK! She has produced the storytelling shows Dead Rock Stars and Riding the Rail at QED, and the upcoming Tiny Tales at The Tank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570672139057-BDXKF7KVUW9DSGM774EV/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - Jackson Fisher: Jackson Fisher is a stand up comedian, writer and improviser based in New York. He is the cohost and producer of The Tongue, a free stand up show the first Thursday of every month at Pine Box Rock Shop in Brooklyn. Jackson has been featured on Sirius XM Radio and in clubs and festivals all over New York, the US, and Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570672333629-K9Q1VRTZEUZO1C9W0NMR/3.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Aparna Nancherla: Aparna started out doing comedy in her hometown of Washington D.C. and now resides in New York City. 2016’s Elle’s Women in Comedy Issue, featured her as one of the most exciting new voices to hit the comedy scene. She is a series regular in Comedy Central’s Corporate and reprised her role in season 3 of HBO’s CRASHING. Aparna is also featured in the second season of Netflix’s The Standups. Most recently, she wrapped the writer’s room for Season 1 as Co-Producer for the Rob McElhenney/Charlie Day Apple Comedy Hero’s Quest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570666777520-FJ4U6SJFMFCKZYH6GATI/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - CHRIS CALOGERO: Chris Calogero is a comedian and writer in Brooklyn and has been featured on Funny or Die, Vice, Fusion TV and AOL’s 2 Point Lead web series and has performed in the Cape Fear Comedy Festival, What a Joke National Comedy Festival, The Brooklyn Comedy Festival, and More. Chris hosts a podcast called "Mourning Coffee" where he discusses grief, loss, death, and mourning with other comedians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570667959137-6IS9IMLK0MQB2I779U8V/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - Danubia Garrison: Former Human Rights professor and regrettable capitalist. Current freelance writer, part-time model, and therapist to random millennials. My mood is generally bleak underneath the heavy coating of a very cheery exterior. I am degree'd up in Philosophy, so I tend to talk about quantum physics with morality, neuroscience with identity, and other things that confuse people. My laugh is usually about some ridiculous experience i've had. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570669225244-1HMW9EDUR4KO72SR3QOY/Julia.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Julia Whitehouse: JULIA WHITEHOUSE (formerly Wiedeman) is a writer, performer, and storytelling teacher who has lived all over the world and is based in NYC. Her show NAKED PEOPLE ran at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC and LA as well as The Women in Comedy Festival. She is a Moth StorySlam winner and has performed live and on the podcasts of Risk!, Nights of Our Lives, Soundtrack Series, and Love Hurts as well as co-hosting the podcast The Whole Story with Asher Novek. Writing credits include McSweeney's, Popsugar, and Motherly. She also hosts Manhattan's longest-running weekly storytelling open mic Happy Hour Story Hour at The Duplex every Monday at 7 pm. And she gave birth to her two children in her apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570671531325-HOAMSLZ4AOO49FMWNPT1/e.g.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Dr. Edith Gonzalez: Dr. Edith Gonzalez is an historical archaeologist with four graduate degrees in various sub fields of anthropology. She has a secret love of Lord of the Rings, 70’s disco, and doughnuts in all their forms. Find her on The Story Collider and RISK! Podcasts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570671817070-WUEOXUWWOZIXSS87N3CX/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - Sammie James: Sammie James is a comedian and story teller from New Jersey; where she hosts and produces The LGBT showcase Queerly Comedic. Sammie also hosts the podcast All Of My Friends Are Animals and The NYC Trans Variety show We Are Trans. She performs all over the country; including past appearances at Cinder Block Comedy Festival, Charm City Comedy Festival and Bechdal Test Fest; and she is soon to be your favorite disabled, nerdy, butch trans woman in comedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570672424894-2TCGRW8CGUO0GLY6BQHZ/2.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Anita Flores: ANITA FLORES has produced and starred in videos for Buzzfeed, Univision, and Pride.com. She hosts a monthly comedy show called Party of Two. She is currently on tour with Awkward Sex and the City and has a podcast called I’m Listening where she explores different themes and pivotal moments from the show Frasier with a new guest each episode. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1572111644852-6J3F4T9KSWA1XH6YPQFN/Headshot_Alice089.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Alice Payne Alice Payne is a lawyer turned mom turned comedian. She's one in a million, primarily because of her ultra-rare genetic disorder. Inspired by Ali Wong, Kathleen Madigan and needing to laugh about the side effects of her chronic illness, Alice took to the stage and let it all out. She can be seen in LA at Flappers, the Ice House, and her audiologist's office getting her hearing aids adjusted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570667385136-87YA4C6E0Y9Y4R0E3XCT/robin.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Robin Gelfenbien: Robin Gelfenbien is the self-proclaimed Ambassador of Fun and an NYC-based storyteller, writer and comedian. She’s a three-time Moth Story SLAM winner who has performed on PBS, RISK!, Mortified and countless other shows. She’s also shared the stage with Hannah Gadsby, Trevor Noah and more. Robin is the Creator and Host of the storytelling series and podcast, “Yum’s the Word,” that features her homemade ice cream cakes. The show has been named a New York Times and Time Out New York Critic’s Pick. Guests have included Tim Gunn, Jason Biggs, Joy Behar and stars from “Orange is the New Black.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570667775837-4JASMUQM52DHX717VG59/sandi.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Sandi Marx: Sandi Marx can be seen and heard at comedy festivals and on a multitude of shows and podcasts such as Risk, Story Collider and an upcoming Moth. She is also the subject of an upcoming documentary, “ The Fabulist”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570670132270-W14OAC12FIFOODLCARFD/Nelson.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Nelson Lugo: Nelson Lugo, (magician, former ringmaster, and Batman enthusiast) became a storyteller by never winning a Moth Story Slam. He is a frequent guest artist on many NYC storytelling stage shows and his stories can be heard on the Storycollider Podcast, RISK: The Podcast, as well as the EPIC PIEcast that he co-hosts with Schaffer the Darklord for NerdyShow.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570671366174-S1ODBIZHENWBHCUN3JN4/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - Vara Cooper: Vara Cooper is a Moth Story Slam champion, Risk! podcast alum, and winner of the 2017 National Story Slam at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. When Vara is not on stage, she is coaching other performers and consulting with businesses in all matters related to personal narrative...or she’s knitting. Vara is owned by two Basset hounds, and her favorite color is green. For more information, visit www.varacooper.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570671989464-SSDGZAC1F1X7HES1XYWB/blah.jpg 2019 Festival Performers - Michele Carlo: Michele Carlo has told stories across the U.S., including the MOTH’s MainStage, RISK! live shows and podcast, NPR and the PBS series "Stories from the Stage." She is the author of the NYC-set memoir Fish Out of Agua, and hosts a podcast of the same name on Radio Free Brooklyn. www.michelecarlo.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ff7d75414fb53637dd7d4f/1570672249527-JL7EIZ0V2OTMHSCDQJ9L/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Festival Performers - Adrien Behn: Adrien Behn is a triple threat storyteller. She is a podcaster, live storyteller, and writer. She has been on RISK! And the best of RISK! Podcast. You can also see her anywhere else someone will let her tell stories without interruption ( except for laughter, that is preferred, if not encouraged). 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