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Season 2 "Medium"

A cartoonist, a journalist, and a bi-sexual filmmaker walk into a bar. Or wait, a recording studio. Wait, one of them is also a rabbi. No…nevermind. This week we got to talk all about storytelling in different mediums. From online videos to personal essays to film to animation to podcasts and everything in between. Be sure to check out all their respective work too!

A cartoonist, a journalist, and a bi-sexual filmmaker walk into a bar.  Or wait, a recording studio.  Wait, one of them is also a rabbi.  No…nevermind.  This week we got to talk all about storytelling in different mediums.  From online videos to personal essays to film to animation to podcasts and everything in between.  Be sure to check out all their respective work too!

Lilly Dancyger is the Deputy Editor of Narratively, where she mostly edits memoir. She also teaches memoir writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and her first book, “Hunted: A memoir of art and addiction” is forthcoming from Shanti Arts Press in summer 2018.

Tim Manley is a writer, storyteller, and educator. 

Co-creator, co-director, and writer of The Feels, online show about a bi guy with way too many feelings. Writer and illustrator of Alice in Tumblr-land, published by Penguin and optioned for TV by 20th Century Fox. Storyteller featured on HBO’s Girls, The Moth Radio Hour, Gimlet’s Surprisingly Awesome, and in his FringeFAVE solo show, Feelings. Educator with New York City’s Showcase Schools program, and elsewhere.
 

Anoush Froundjian is a writer, cartoonist and improvisor, who knows her way around a Sharpie. When she isn’t telling stories, she draws her online comic, “Anoush Talks to Stuff,” and designs clothing with her own monster illustrations. Please stop by! https://anoushtalkstostuff.wordpress.com

https://artofwhere.com/artists/anoush

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Asher Novek

Asher Novek, co-host, is a writer, producer, storyteller, and community activist. His day to day work focuses on projects that utilize technology in ways that bridge community groups to local government.

He co-produces a stand up show “This Evening” at Dean Street Bar in Prospect Heights. He also produces a monthly storytelling show in Park Slope, “So What Happened Was”, and has performed on the podcasts “Can’t Make This Up”, “the Brighter Side”, and “It’s Not Complicated.” He has written and performed two solo storytelling shows: “I Wish Someone Told Me”, which he recently reprised at The Tank’s SoloFest Redux, and “The Holy Moment”, a bi-coastal storytelling show that wove in two stories across East and West Coasts with co-writer Jake Arky. He has also been known to officiate the occasional wedding.

Julia Whitehouse

Julia Whitehouse (formerly Wiedeman), co-host, is a New York based performer, writer, and storyteller. Julia teaches workshops through the Story Collider. She is also currently the host of the weekly storytelling open mic, Happy Hour Story Hour, at The Duplex, she performed her solo show NAKED PEOPLE at UCBTNY, UCBLA, and for the Women in Comedy Festival. Her follow up solo showI’ll Show You Minehad a run at The PIT after being a part of the first Solocom Festival. She is a Moth Slam winner and performs her stories regularly Risk!, Nights of Our Lives, and Soundtrack Series podcasts and stages. Her acting performances are aplenty on youtube and once a video she was in about millennials was on the CBS Sunday Morning show.