The show before that was 11/19/19
Funny over 50
Michele Carlo is a writer/performer who has appeared on several stages, including Joe’s Pub, RISK!, the MOTH MainStage, on NPR, and the PBS show Stories from the Stage. She is the author of the NYC-set memoir Fish Out of Agua, which is also a radio show/podcast currently airing on Radio Free Brooklyn.
Rebecca Danigelis is a 78 year-old mother of 3 from Liverpool, England. Once a french translator for the British government, she immigrated to the US in the 70s to work in hotel management. After being abruptly fired from her job three years ago, Rebecca filmed a bucket list journey with her son which will be featured in their upcoming documentary Duty Free, premiering in 2020.
Kelli Dunham is the genderqueer ex-nun storytelling nurse comic so common in modern Brooklyn and author of seven hilarious books. Also, Mayor Bill DeBlasio once called Kelli a "show off." To her face.
Verna Gillis won her first story slam at age 68 and most recently again at the Bookfest in Woodstock 2019. Her one older-woman show, Tales From Geriassic Park: On the Verge of Extinction, won Best Comedic Script at the United Solo Theatre Festival in 2014, and she has a published book of one-liners, I Just Want to be Invited; I Promise Not to Come.
Rhonda Hansome is a comedian, actor and director, and has told true stories at NY Story Exchange, Bady House StoryTelling Concert, and Yum’s the Word. Rhonda is also on the John Fugelsang SiriusXM show "Tell Me Everything" every Monday.
Cory Kahaney is a comedian with recent appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, was a hit on the 2016 season of America’s Got Talent, was featured in Catskills on Broadway, and was a grand finalist on NBC’S Last Comic Standing. Kahaney was also named Best Comedian in NYC by Backstage and has specials on Comedy Central and HBO.
Sandi Marx is a retired talent agent who is now a fixture on the New York storytelling scene. She is a seven-time Moth StorySLAM champion and she’s been featured on: nationally televised PBS’s "Stories For The Stage," on “Women of Letters,” and at the Women’s Comedy Festival in Boston.
Carol Prisant has been an antiques dealer and appraiser. She’s written both of Antiques Roadshow’s encyclopedias, another book on connoisseurship, a dog memoir, and last year, she published her first novel, Catch 26. For the past thirty years, she’s been the New York editor of The World of Interiors magazine.
Martha Reeves is the winner of the Jack Kerouac Literary Prize at the "Let's Celebrate Kerouac" Celebration in Lowell, Massachusetts and author of computer poems (including "Ready When You Are, Houston") in The Geek Squad Guide to Every Computer Glitch. Martha, a humorist, resides in New York and writes her own material.
Pamela Vassil is retired, but hardly retiring. Writer. Community Board (CB6) member, Parks & Historic Preservation Committee Chair. Activist. Volunteer. Mother. “Gramma.” Friend. Figuring out how to survive on Social Security. All while in search of a really funny joke and a really good man who can tell it
Created/hosted by Georgia Clark.
