11/1/06

They Have Such Honest Faces


Well, maybe not that last guy. And I'm not sure I'd let #2 date my daughter. In fact, don't trust any of them. So who's lying this time?

Monday, Nov 13 - 8pm (doors 7:30)
The P.I.T.
154 W 29th Street (bet 6th and 7th Aves)

$5
at the door or buy tickets online.

Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey ("The master storyteller.” - NY Times) has toured the country and the world with his monologues, Great Men of Genius, Monopoly and 21 Dog Years (the story of his time spent working for the internet giant Amazon.com.) The book inspired by that monologue is available on--what else?-- Amazon.com. His newest show, about truth, lies, James Frey and J.T. LeRoy, is called TRUTH: The heart is a million little pieces above all things. www.mikedaisey.com

David Dickerson
David is a writer and crossword editor originally from Tucson, Arizona. He moved to New York nine months ago after getting a Ph.D. in English at Florida State, and a four year stint as a greeting card writer at Hallmark. His humor pieces have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and Mirth of a Nation, and one of his stories was selected for Year's Best Fantasy and Science Fiction 2005. And yes, he dresses like this all the time; it's not a costume.

Christen Clifford
Christen Clifford is a performer and writer. Her most recent solo show, BabyLove, had it's world premiere in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2005 and won "Best of Fringe" at the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Her previous solo, 17 Guys I Fucked, was seen at The Culture Project, Women Center Stage, and the Oni Gallery. Her work has been published in Salon.com, Nerve.com, The New York Press, Blue, black and white magazine, and the anthology Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong (Disinfo press). As an actor, she has worked on, off and off-off Broadway at theatres like The Town Hall, The Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, HERE, SoHo Rep, chashama, Joe's Pub and at all those now defunct Theatre Row theatres, as well as regionally and internationally. She has had recurring roles on As The World Turns and The Guiding Light . Radio work includes WBAI and NPR. She is getting an MFA in non fiction writing from The New School, and is a visiting scholar at NYU. www.christenclifford.com

Peter Lubell
Peter has been speaking since his first breath. During periods of inhalation, he has written, produced and directed for many television networks, and for public radio. He's covered film festivals in print, worked as a jazz DJ in radio and told his stories at The Moth and Speakeasy. He asks that you please do not refrigerate or freeze your coffee.

Andy Christie (host)
Called "Tall, brilliant and brutally handsome" by James Frey, Andy is your basic regular guy, 4-time Moth Slam winner and co-author and illustrator of I Wasn’t Kidding (Random House), a book that explored the funny side of suicide. Not surprisingly, it died on remainder shelves. But he lives on, onstage, online and on the pages of snooty literary journals. He has been a featured Moth Main Stage storyteller and is currently working on Sicker! The Movie: A Novel.