On Wednesday September 16th, four Moth storytellers will share true stories, told live against the landscape of the historic and beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery. Virtual doors open at 6:15 PM ET stories begin at 6:30 PM ET. This virtual mainstage will be a platform for stories of confrontation and crossing paths—chance meetings, secret rendezvous, near misses and narrow escapes.
Hosted by Tara Clancy, the storytellers are Dion Flynn, Flash Rosenberg, Devan Sandiford and Angela Derecas Taylor, directed by Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Michelle Jalowski and Sarah Austin Jenness.
Tara Clancy is a writer, comic, and actor. She is a frequent host of The Moth Mainstage shows and has told stories on The Moth Radio Hour, NPR’s Snap Judgment, and Risk! Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review Daily, and The New York Times Magazine. She appeared on HBO’s Girls and High Maintenance, and has been a panelist on NPR’S Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Her memoir, The Clancys of Queens, was a 2016 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. More info. at www.taraclancy.com
Cited by Oprah Magazine as “one of our favorite creative thinkers,” Dion Flynn is a writer, speaker, improvisor, comedian, actor, and army veteran. He’s best known for impersonating Barack Obama and other characters, with over 100 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. If Dave Chapelle and Eckhart Tolle had a son who did improv, it would be Dion. He’s a master at using fun and innovative ways to help people connect with themselves and others, leading hundreds of recovering- and non-recovering people and healthcare and business professionals through his dynamic Improv Recovery and Improvisor’s Mindset Workshops.
Flash Rosenberg is an “Attention Span for Hire” who draws, animates, photographs, writes, and performs. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, served as Artist in Residence for LIVE from the New York Public Library where she made live-drawings of discussions in real-time, to create animated Conversation Portraits. She is a regular performer in Monologues and Madness, member of the poetry collective “Brevitas,” and taught photo-perception classes conducted entirely on the subways for Cooper Union. Her FlashThink cartoons were a weekly web feature. After delivering her first Mainstage story in 2005, she became the first, official photographer for The Moth. Flash Rosenberg Studio is a full-service cartoon, photography, motion picture, merriment, and mischief factory based in Harlem. She lives with two turtles and infinite questions.
Devan Sandiford is a published writer and three-time NYC Moth StorySLAM champion. His stories have been featured in The Washington Post, The Moth Podcast, Speak Up Storytelling, Love Hurts podcast, and Open Hands podcast. He is also the founder of Unreeling Storytelling, a Brooklyn-based true storytelling show providing a platform that sheds light on the repressed perspectives of people of color, women, and other marginalized individuals. Devan is working on his first book—a memoir in short stories removing the curtain of race to reveal hard truths about the emotional and psychological pain a human feels when being treated as less than human. Devan shares his stories to take ownership of the ways in which he internalized racism and to show how he finally learned to shed racism’s grip on his soul. Devan was born and raised in Southern California, but now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and their two sons. For more information about Devan and his book, join his mailing list at www.devansandiford.com.
Angela Derecas Taylor hails from 1960’s Greenwich Village, NYC. She was raised in a family of restaurateurs and had a 20-year career in catering and event planning, first on luxury yachts and then in exotic resorts and historic hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria. Highlights from that career include cooking for Madonna, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a 90’ sailboat and meeting the Dalai Lama. After marriage and the birth of two sons, Angela left that industry to start a new career, working in the mayor’s office in New Rochelle. She is also a Certified Yoga Instructor. In her “spare” time, Angela shares stories about all of the above. Her stories have been published in The Westchester Review and Breadcrumbs Magazine, she’s been a featured live storyteller with READ650 and Pros(e) of Pie, and has, on occasion, taken the stage at The Moth StorySLAMs in NYC. She’s a member of the For the Love of Words and Under the Bridge writer’s groups, and the recipient of a 2019 Gurfein Fellowship Honorable Mention from the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute. Find out more at http://www.foodwineandwords.com.
The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad, often featuring prominent literary and cultural personalities.
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