Liar Show storytellers have included personalities like New Yorker Magazine contributor Andy Borowitz, writer and monologist Mike Daisey, called "The master storyteller," by the New YorkTimes, and former President Bill Clinton's humor writer, Mark Katz. Depending on the night, you may also hear stories from a gang squad detective from The Bronx, a hairdresser  from Texas, or a lapsed evangelical from heaven knows where.

The show's creator and host, Andy Christie, is a writer and storyteller himself. His work has appeared in the New York Times and he is the 2007 Moth Urban Storytelling Champion.

A FEW OF OUR RECENT PERFORMERS:

MIKE DAISEY

The NY Times; Wired

ANDY BOROWITZ

The New Yorker

OPHIRA EISENBERG

Comedy Central

STEVE OSBORNE

Retired NYPD detective

JAMES BRALY

National Public Radio

NED VIZZINI

Author of “Be More Chill”

MIKE ALBO

Author of “The Underminer”

MICHAELA MURPHY

Aspen Comedy Festival

JENNIFER DEMERITT

Nerve; Bust Magazine

DAVID DICKERSON

The Atlantic Monthly

MARGOT LEITMAN

ESPN; VH1; Conan O'Brien

JOANNA PARSON

“The Audience”

PETER LUBELL

IFC; producer, director

CHRISTEN CLIFFORD

Best in SF Fringe

CYNDI FREEMAN

Edinburgh Fringe

ELNA BAKER

This American Life

 

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	ANDY CHRISTIE Andy Christie is the creator and host of The Liar Show. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, in snooty literary journals and online. His humor book, "I Wasn’t Kidding: How To Commit Suicide So They'll Never Forget It" was published by Random House in the United States and the United Kingdom. Consequently his work can be found on remainder shelves spanning two continents. He has been a featured storyteller on The Moth Mainstage and is a recent Moth Urban Storytelling GrandSlam Champion.
	OPHIRA EISENBERG A MAC Award Finalist for Best Female Comic, Ophira Eisenberg has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Fresh Faces of Comedy. She also had her own comedy special on CTV’s Comedy Now! Ophira performs regularly at renowned comedy clubs all over the world and also tours with The Moth, a NYC storytelling phenomenon and is currently featured on the Moth’s Audience Favorites CD. She is also a core performer with The Liar Show. Ophira was selected by BackStage as one of "10 Standout Stand Ups Worth Watching" in their Spotlight on Comedy Issue and hailed as a “Highly Recommended Favorite” by Time Out New York magazine. Her writing has been featured in the Crown/Random House anthology, I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics alongside that of Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Dennis Miller and Joan Rivers and the upcoming Heeb Magazine Anthology, Sex Drugs and Gefilte Fish. She is also a regular contributor for US Weekly's Fashion Police. www.OphiraEisenberg.com
	JIM O'GRADY Jim O'Grady was a reporter for The City section of The New York Times and is now research director at the Center for an Urban Future, a think tank in Lower Manhattan. O'Grady, like every other drunken narcissist in New York, tells stories at The Moth. Read his New York Times piece on The Moth and the NYC storytelling scene.
	MARTIN DOCKERY Martin is co-creator of the play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which is now running on Broadway as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His play Oh, That Wily Snake! is being read by university students as part of a McGraw-Hill anthology textbook on literature. The New York Times has called his writing “Fey and fantastic,” Backstage West has called it “deliciously enjoyable,” and the L.A. Weekly has deemed it “compelling . . . entertaining . . . divinely inspired.” His one-person show Wanderlust premiered at The Marsh in San Francisco during the Summer of 2007, and moved to New York in 2008. A frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene, he is a record seven-time finalist in The Moth’s bi-annual Storytelling Championship. www.MartinDockery.com
	FAYE LANE Faye Lane’s one woman show, I Wish It So, moved New York Magazine to gush, “She had them gobbling from the palm of her hand. They were howling, crying, falling in love with her." She is currently writing a new show, Beauty Shop Stories, which chronicles her childhood in a Texas Beauty Salon. She has performed her autobiographical stories at Caroline’s Comedy on Broadway, Comix, Time Out New York Lounge, and The Moth, where she has won Slam Championships in both New York and Los Angeles. She lives in the historic Chelsea Hotel with a curmudgeonly husband, two cigar chomping cats, and a very friendly ghost. She can be reached at FayeLane@aol.com
	PETER LUBELL Peter Lubell has written, produced and directed for National Public Radio and Independent Film Channel. He has covered film festivals, worked as a jazz DJ in radio and told his stories on many NYC stages.
	STEVE OSBORNE Steve Osborne spent 20 years in the NYPD. He retired a lieutenant in the detective bureau, where he was the commanding officer of the Manhattan Gang Squad. He has told hs hair raising stories on stages all over the U.S. He also works as a police procedural consultant for television and film.
	PETER AGUERO Peter Aguero has appeared on MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He's a member of the Chicago City Limits National Touring Company. His storytelling CD "graphicvulgarlunacy vol. II: Jacoby Appliance Parts" is available on iTunes.
	ED GAVAGAN Ed Gavagan is a Moth GrandSlam Storytelling Champion and has been featured on their mainstage. He is trained as an architect, a philosopher, a furniture maker and a motorcycle mechanic. He has probably built something in a building near you.
	JAMES BRALY James Braly was called “Never less than excellent” by the NY Times. The only two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam, he has told his stories on NPR and with The Moth/TNT National Tour. His monologue, Life In A Marital Institution, just completed an extended run Off-Broadway. www.JamesBraly.com
	JULIET WAYNE Juliet Wayne was voted Best Storyteller in Philadelphia by First Person Arts. She is a Moth mainstage performer and hosts and curates The Trainwreck a storytelling show backed by her sister's band The Resin Ballz.
	JEFF SIMMERMON Jeff Simmermon writes and curates the blog And I Am Not Lying, presenting Web weirdness, cultural commentary and narcissistic navel-gazing in equal amounts. He has packed plastic cutlery for airline food, been the percussionist for two keyboard-playing chickens, worked as a kangaroo shooter and played an insolent gingerbread boy in a low-rent children's theater. Jeff now works in online PR and is most at home surrounded by like-minded weirdos who tell stories at The Moth.