Our last show was 11/9/22

Theme: Plot Twist: Stories You Never Saw Coming

Plot twist! Sometimes, life throws you a curveball. In our last show for 2022, we’ve invited our line-up to tell us stories of change. It might be a transformation they initiated, or a transition that happened to them. New paths can be invigorating and exciting, or confusing and downright scary. Regardless, the only constant in life is change, so this November, come hear a night of stories about forging your own path, wherever where that path takes you…

Team 20s: Ayla Zuraw-Friedland is a queer literary agent and sometimes-writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in GAY the Magazine and The Cape Cod Poetry Review. She lives in Brooklyn with her two cats, Cleocatra and Motor.

Team 30s: Haley Swanson is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College and co-editor of Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Glamour, Electric Literature, Bustle, and elsewhere. She's received support from Disquiet International, an NES Artist Residency, and teaches writing at Catapult.

Team 40s: Kavita Das worked in social change for close to fifteen years. She is currently a full-time writer and wrote her first book, Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar, telling the life story of Grammy-nominated Hindustani singer Lakshmi Shankar. Kavita also created the popular “Writing About Social Issues” nonfiction seminar, which inspired her second book, Craft and Conscience: How To Write About Social Issues.

Team 50s: Fiona Davis is the New York Times-bestselling author of historical fiction set in iconic New York City buildings, including The Magnolia Palace and The Lions of Fifth Avenue, a Good Morning America book club pick. She lives in New York City and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.

Team 60s: Rita Rigano is a New York City-based storyteller, appearing at corporate events and storytelling shows locally and online. She previously performed extensively in the Westchester area as a solo storyteller and as part of The Rigano Family Storytellers, a troupe that told original versions of well-known fairy tales. She teaches business communication and presentation skills at Yeshiva University.

Team 70s: Carren Strock has often been called a Renaissance woman. Equally at home with a paintbrush and canvas, a needle and thread, or a hammer and nails, she is as eclectic in her writing as in her other interests. While best known for her ground-breaking book Married Women Who Love Women and More, now in its third edition. She is the author of seven other books in various genres.

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of Island Time, and others.