Our last show was 5/21/2024

Life is all about the connections we make… and some are connections we never saw coming. Join us at Joe’s Pub on Tuesday, May 21 at 7pmET for our May show, “Bridging the Divide: Stories of Unexpected Connections.” Whether it’s connecting with someone from a completely different background, becoming a vegetarian after decades of meat-eating or finally seeing your work nemesis in a whole new light, change is part of what makes us human. This month, we’re celebrating the delightful ways life keeps us guessing and the power of keeping an open mind.

Team 20s: Aarushi Agni is a writer, singer, comedian, and educator living in New York City. As a comic, she's opened for acclaimed comics such as Aparna Nancherla, Ben Glieb, Jackie Kashian and Maggie Faris.

Team 30s: Mandy Velez Tatti is a journalist and aspiring memoirist. She oversees social media & newsletters for Teen Vogue and Them by day and freelance writes the rest of the time, with work published by Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, The Daily Beast, and more. She's an alumni of the Yale Writers' Workshop.

Team 40s: Andrea Coleman is a Brooklyn based writer, performer and lawyer. She's a RISK! Storyteller who's been featured in The New York Times, TimeOut NY, NPR, PBS, Forbes and Entertainment Weekly. Andrea has performed at SolocomNYC, Comedy Cellar, Comic Strip, San Francisco Sketchfest, Women in Comedy Festival and Austin Sketch Fest.

Team 50s: Lisa Dordal teaches poetry at Vanderbilt University and is the author of Mosaic of the Dark, a finalist for the 2019 Audre Lorde Award; Water Lessons (2022); and Next Time You Come Home, which was listed by Lambda Literary as one of their most anticipated books for 2023. 

Team 60s:  Michele Herman’s novel, Save the Village, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize, and she’s published two chapbooks: Victory Boulevard and Just Another Jack. Her work has appeared in recent issues of Carve, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, The Sun and LitHub. She’s a devoted teacher at The Writers Studio.

Team 70s: Helen Benedict, a professor at Columbia University, is the author of six nonfiction books and eight novels. A recipient of the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism, Benedict has been writing about refugees and war for years. Her new novel, The Good Deed, is based on this research.

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