The latest installment of Brooklyn’s hot new storytelling series, You Went to College for That, with all new stories and great new storytellers, will be back at Union Hall October 6 at 7:30 PM. The second semester will continue on November 3 and December 8.
“You Went to College for That?” is an opportunity for New York’s best storytellers to present stories about their college days — love, classes, booze, experiments with drugs, experimenting in organic chemistry, growing up and being young. The stories can focus on any part of their lives, but each storyteller must teach the audience something that they learned in their major. We hope that the show will become part of the community of great storytelling in New York.
The show is hosted and curated by acclaimed standup comic and storyteller Ophira Eisenberg, (B.S., Anthropology, McGill University). Selected as one of New York Magazine’s Top 10 Comics, Ophira has appeared on Comedy Central, Fox, VH-1 and NBC. Her writing has been published in five anthologies, including I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics and Heeb Magazine’s collection Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish. She is also a regular contributor for Us Weekly’s “Fashion Police” and YourTango.com. Her debut stand-up comedy CD As Is is available on iTunes.
This month’s storytellers include:
Cyndi Freeman: (Hotsy Totsy Burlesque, Standard Issues Storytelling) Theatre, Emerson College
Mark Katz: (The Moth, author of Clinton & Me) Political Science, Cornell
Adam Wade: (Moth Grad Slam Champion, College Stories) Communications
Brian Wecht: (Story Collider) Mathematics and Music, Williams College, Ph.D. in Physics, UC San Diego
Here’s what Capital New York thought of our standing-room only first show:
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2010/08/281204/park-slope-hears-booze-fueled-stories-love-and-higher-education/
Tickets are only $10.
Union Hall is located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, right off the corner of 5th Avenue at 702 Union Street. R Train (Union Street), Q, 2, 3, 4 or 5 Train (Atlantic Avenue), F Train (4th Avenue). 718-638-4400 www.unionhallny.com