True Stories with Ophira Eisenberg & Ed Gavagan
In the spirit of The Moth Radio Hour and podcast:
TRUE STORIES at the Hotel Wolfe Island
TWO SHOWS:
Friday, July 7th // 7pm
Sunday July 9th // 3pm (click to see this event)
TICKETS: $25 — CLICK TO PURCHASE
Tickets will also be available at the door after online sales have ended.
A very special event of true tales told live — for fans of The Moth radio show and podcasts, and The Vinyl Café Story Exchange – from master storytellers Ophira Eisenberg and Ed Gavagan, with an audience volunteer to be chosen at random to tell their own 7-minute store on stage!
OPHIRA EISENBERG
CBS The Late Late Show • NPR Ask Me Another • The Moth Story Hour • Comedy Central • HBO
Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comedian, writer, and the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke with iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends were she interviews comics and creative people about their career and what it’s like to do that with kids in the mix, including Rachel Bloom, Roy Wood Jr. Samantha Bee and Tig Notaro. She also hosted NPR’s Ask Me Another where she interviewed hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Harris, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Awkwafina, Roxanne Gay, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler and more. She’s appeared multiple times on CBS’s The Late Late Show, Comedy Central, HBO, The New York Festival and is regular host and teller on The Moth Radio Hour and her stories are included in three of The Moth’s best-selling collections, including the most recent: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. Her memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was optioned for a television series, and her new comedy special Plant-Based Jokes is streaming on YouTube. Her solo show Leaving A Mark: A Comedy About Scars recently made its Off-Broadway review to rave reviews and won the Women in the Arts & Media Award for Solo Show Scripts.
ED GAVAGAN
The Moth Story Hour • TED and TEDx Talks • A&E Biography
Ed Gavagan owns a design/build firm in Manhattan. He has built homes and furniture for fancy people and humble folk on four continents, including the NYC headquarters for both Bono’s AIDS charity (RED) and The Moth, a national organization dedicated to live storytelling. In 2009, Ed began telling stories with The Moth. He has been featured on the Moth podcast, which is downloaded over 47 million times a year, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour which is heard weekly on over 470 radio stations worldwide. One of Ed’s stories was included in The Moth’s first book, The Moth: 50 True Stories, a NYT Bestseller. He also participates in Moth outreach programs and community workshops. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. He loves to tell stories and is even happier when people listen.
