David Crabb
Host of The Moth and Risk!, author of “Bad Kid,” a memoir based on his New York Times Critics Pick solo show.
www.davidcrabb.net
“To make a really good friend, you need a really good fucked up, neurotic, New York night to make magic happen…”
Amy Heidt
Writer, director, performer: UCB, NY Fringe Fest.
@amyheidt
“I’m holding a microphone while the background track plays, just going, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry… for four minutes.”
![Hannah FriedmanAuthor of Everything Sucks, Pixar, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. https://www.hannahfriedman.com“It was open casket. [The monkey] wore a smoking jacket. In the tradition of a viking funeral, there were bananas laid out li…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb5617a3560c338da50a8d2/1566688903470-J3SDD7ZRJNRI82HJDHTN/image.jpg)
Hannah Friedman
Author of Everything Sucks, Pixar, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.
www.hannahfriedman.com
“It was open casket. [The monkey] wore a smoking jacket. In the tradition of a viking funeral, there were bananas laid out like oars...”
![Patty SchemelAuthor of “Hit So Hard,” drummer for Upset, Hole. https://twitter.com/pattyschemel?lang=en“[REDACTED] goes, ‘Well, I know how to smoke out of my cooter because I stripped in Japan with the Yakuza.’”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb5617a3560c338da50a8d2/1566688937301-6ER1ZP59OL1Y1B89XSJD/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-11%2Bat%2B4.08.02%2BPM.jpg)
Patty Schemel
Author of “Hit So Hard,” drummer for Upset, Hole.
@PattySchemel
“[REDACTED] goes, ‘Well, I know how to smoke out of my cooter because I stripped in Japan with the Yakuza.’”
Jessie Rosen
Showrunner, host of Sunday Night Sex Talks, author of “Dead Ringer.”
www.jessierosen.com
“We face each other, we flip down our bathing suit bottoms, and my deepest fears are confirmed…we are officially follicly not identical.”
Nick Scown & Kathi Watson
Scown: Writer/director of “Pretty Bad Actress” and the upcoming documentary “Too Soon: The Comedy of 9/11.”
Watson: Co-creator of “Celebrity Ghost Stories.”
“There are cowboys on jetski’s with lassos catching the bison. Why? These are shark infested waters, and the sharks have been feasting on the bison.”
Shauna McGarry
Writer for BoJack Horseman and Tuca & Bertie.
www.shaunamcgarry.com
“He’s legit. This isn’t just a one hot tub guy. This guy has multiple hot tubs...”
Peter Banachowski
Comedian and actor.
www.peterbanachowski.com
“‘Can we cut the sleeves off our shirts while we’re digging holes and roofing buildings?’ And they said, ‘No, because you might send the sex nuns into a relapse.’”
David Montgomery
The Moth host, comedian, storyteller.
buymeahotdog.wordpress.com
“My ten year old nephew is holding court, and I’m like, ‘attention is my thing.’ I go over, is he doing a magic trick? He is telling all of his favorite racist jokes…”
John Flynn
One half of “Two Old Queens” podcast, a UCBer, and a professional storyteller.
two old queens podcast
“Oh, someone DID fall, tit-first, into that cake. You can tell…”
Danielle Perez
comedian, writer, actor, as seen like literally everywhere.
www.thedanielleperez.com
“I’m not saying a glass dildo is the most noble thing to stand up for, but I took up space…”
Alison Agosti
Comedian, writer: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and more.
@AlisonAgosti
“Ignore what I said about blowdrying my dog, I’m not a caretaker.”
Dr. Dave Emmett
Screenwriter, doctor, extremely handsome Star Trek enthusiast.
“Beep-beep-beep. The heart rate monitor goes off because it’s set to go off if your heart rate goes above a hundred, and any sexual activity, it goes above. The doors fly open and nurses burst in…”
Fiona Landers
Writer, performer, The New Yorker, Reductress, Dame.
www.fionalanders.com
“Everything about this sexy aunt mug screams, ‘I have no children and that is good because I am far too busy with sex and scrapbooking my regrets.”
Jude Harris
Writer, producer, director, good at everything, it's crazy.
www.holycowboy.com
FIRST PERFORMANCE: “Entertainment Weekly said it was as if the writers of Saturday Night Live were running Buchanan’s campaign… They see me!”
SECOND PERFORMANCE: “In my DM’s, Raphael wrote…’Do you want to join the Illuminati?’”
Jessica Lee Williamson
Comic, The Moth MainStage touring member, TV Writer: Netflix's Medical Police, Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here, KCRW's UnFictional.
“He came with this really crappy xeroxed piece of paper that said ‘How to be a Ventriloquist’ and offered very vague suggestions like: DO try not to move your lips and DON’T forget to smile.”
Alex Kruger
Comedian and EX-FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
“You could only become a funeral director if you did an embalming internship. I was like, ‘absolutely not.’ But, then we found a loophole… We flew to a funeral conference to find a funeral home to bribe.”
Brittany Ross
Actor, comic, writer, as seen on Netflix's Like Father and Huge In France, ABC's The Rookie and The Middle.
“The cop said, ‘I’m gonna tow your car and take you guys to jail.’ And I told the cop, ‘Been there. Done that.’ He didn’t laugh. But, he did take us to jail.”
Chase Mitchell
Comedian and TV writer: The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Netflix's The Fix, and more.
“One of the coaches started telling me, ‘Mitchell! Ya got heart!’ I’m like, ‘That’s great! But, I also think I’ve got brain damage.”
Christina Anthony
@teenyanthony
Christina Anthony (Mixed-ish, The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window, Key & Peele) is a Los Angeles-based writer, performer, vocalist and comedian with Midwest roots.
“The cop says to us, ‘Well, just steal the car back!’”
Cory Howard
@itscampfireball
Cory Howard has been a National Storytelling Festival performer and a Moth Story Slam Grand Slam winner. He hosts his audience-centric immersive storytelling show The Campfireball at theatres, schools, libraries, community centers and backyards all over the country. Visit campfireball.net/ to see if you want to be friends.
“The accident was just family lore. Referred to as ‘THE accident...’”
Erin Lampart
@thatssolampy
Erin Lampart is a comedian, actress, dancer, and soup enthusiast based in Los Angeles. You may have seen her on Comedy Central’s hit show “Corporate,” tap dancing on stage in a lampshade, or opening for touring musician Marco Benevento and his band. Most recently, Erin has been teaching her monthly creative dance and movement class, Lamp Heart Moves.
“You can’t see the movie, it’s locked away in police evidence. But, you can see an actress playing me, playing Heather, in a reenactment of the movie, in many true crime series.”