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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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MARK KATZ
Mark Katz , “The reigning king of humor speechwriters” (New York Times) has careened though journalism, politics, advertising and comedy, to land in the corridors of power as a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. He is the author of Clinton & Me (Hyperion Books) www.SoundBiteInstitute.com
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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. FayeLane@aol.com
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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MIKE DAISEY
Mike Daisey has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by the New York Times for his groundbreaking monologues, including How Theater Failed America, the six-hour epic Great Men of Genius, and the international sensation 21 Dog Years, based on his book by the same name.
He’s been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, a commentator for PRI’s Studio 360 and NPR’s Day To Day, a contributor to WIRED, Slate, Salon and Vanity Fair. His first work as a playwright, The Moon Is A Dead World, will be produced in Seattle this season. He has been the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, three Seattle Times Footlight Awards, and a MacDowell Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his director and collaborator, Jean-Michele Gregory.
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ROBYN FRANK
Robyn is from Minnesota. She has been acting and producing in New York City for the past three years. She is more than pleased to be a founding member of Sweeter Theater Productions and a proud graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater. Robyn currently resides in Brooklyn. She has no pets.
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JOANNE SOLOMON
After six years flying around the world in the off-Broadway show De La Guarda, Joanne is relieved to be performing without a harness. Joanne can be found performing at the Moth slams, or in a classroom at NYU where she teaches English as a Second Language.
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TRACY ROWLAND
Tracy Rowland is that rare New Yorker who likes to talk. Except she’s from New Jersey, which makes her rarer still. She has appeared onstage with The Moth, Speakeasy and the notorious BTK Band. Tracy makes her living as a promotion and marketing editor at NBC, and is responsible for that Dateline promo involving 50-year-olds who want to hook up with your teenage daughter. She’s got a one-eyed cat, a passport and a knack for physical injury. The stories write themselves.
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