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BAM 2017 Winter/Spring Season #RadioLoveFest

Brooklyn Academy of Music Public Radio* Adam E. Max, Chairman of the Board Cynthia King Vance, Chair, Board of Trustees William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board John S. Rose, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Katy Clark, President Susan Rebell Solomon, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Mayo Stuntz, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Laura R. Walker, President & CEO

*As of February 1, 2017

BAM and WNYC present RadioLoveFest Produced by BAM and WNYC February 7—11

LIVE PERFORMANCES

Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes & Anna Bass: Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host: All the Things We Couldn’t Do on the Road Feb 7, 8pm; Feb 8, 7pm & 9:30pm, HT

The Moth at BAM—Reckless: Stories of Falling Hard and Fast, Feb 9, 7:30pm, HT

Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me®, National Public Radio, Feb 9, 7:30pm, OH

Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and , Feb 10, 7:30pm, HT

Snap Judgment LIVE!, Feb 10, 7:30pm, OH

Bullseye Comedy Night, Feb 11, 7:30pm, HT

BAMCAFÉ LIVE Curated by Terrance McKnight

Braxton Cook, Feb 10, 9:30pm, BC, free

Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros, Feb 11, 9pm, BC, free

Season Sponsor:

Leadership support provided by The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust.

Delta Air Lines is the Official Airline of RadioLoveFest.

Audible is a major sponsor of RadioLoveFest. VENUE KEY BC=BAMcafé Forest City Ratner Companies is a major sponsor of RadioLoveFest. BRC=BAM Rose Cinemas

Williams is a major sponsor of RadioLoveFest. HT=BAM Harvey Theater OH=BAM Howard Gilman Additional support provided by Charles and Valerie Diker. Opera House RadioLoveFest Feb 7 & 8

IRA GLASS, MONICA BILL BARNES, Episode at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera ANNA BASS: THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, House. Touring the world with Monica and Ira ONE RADIO HOST: ALL THE THINGS WE has been one of the greatest thrills of her life. COULDN’T DO ON THE ROAD Feb 7, 8pm; Feb 8, 7pm & 9:30pm JANE COX (lighting design) has designed with BAM Harvey Theater MBB&CO for more than a decade, and her Performed by Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, and collaboration with the company is central to her Anna Bass creative life. Recent theater includes Color Purple Directed and choreographed by Monica Bill and Jitney on Broadway, Othello at NYTW, Barnes Hamlet at the Barbican in , the new play Lighting design by Jane Cox Roe currently playing at Arena Stage in DC, and Set and costume design by Kelly Hanson Amelie, a new musical arriving on Broadway Produced by Robert Saenz de Viteri this spring. Other designs include The Flick, 3acts2dancers1radiohost.com The Ambassador, All the Way, and Machinal (TONY and Drama Desk nominations). Cox has IRA GLASS is the host and creator of the public a long-standing relationship with the Oregon radio program . The show is Shakespeare Festival, and is the director of the heard each week by over 2.2 million listeners program in theater at the Lewis Center for the on more than 500 public radio stations in the Arts at Princeton University. US, Australia, and Canada, with another 2.6 million downloading each . This is Glass’ KELLY HANSON (set/costume design) has professional dance show debut. worked with MBB&CO on every company show since she first met Barnes in 2001. She MONICA BILL BARNES founded MBB&CO in is also a production designer for The Tonight 1997. Since then her work has been performed Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she does in venues ranging from Upright Citizen’s Brigade approximately 220 live shows a year. She to , and has been presented in has been nominated for an Emmy and an Art more than 75 cities throughout the US. Barnes Department Guild award. Hanson was born in began working with Ira Glass in 2012 when she Bryan, TX and earned her MFA in set design at created a solo for and performed University of , San Diego. She lives as a part of This American Life Live! Performing in with her husband and two amazing Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host across kiddos, who support her more than they know. the country has been one of her most rewarding endeavors of the past 20 years, and she is honor ROBERT SAENZ DE VITERI (creative producing ed to bring it to BAM tonight. Upcoming projects director) began working in theater as an audio include the world’s only karaoke office party script assistant to while she turned dance show (this is not fact checked, developed Let Me Down Easy. He has created but we’re pretty sure it’s true), Happy Hour, on performances and toured productions throughout February 15 at 6:30pm. Join us for a drink and the world with the Obie Award-winning Nature totally different experience. Theater of Oklahoma. He originally joined MBB&CO to tour with Three Acts, Two Dancers, ANNA BASS has worked with MBB&CO for One Radio Host in 2013. Since then he has 14 years. She has performed Barnes’ work all gone on to create and produce Happy Hour and over the country, on stages ranging from public The Museum Workout with the company. Happy fountains and city parks to Center Hour returns to NYC on February 15, and will and Carnegie Hall. Bass performed in two of run once a month, every month, hopefully for the Glass’ This American Life Live! events—catching next four years. boxes while dancing as a part of TAL’s cinema event, and appearing as a roller-skating mouse TESS JAMES (lighting director/stage manager) alongside in The Radio Drama is a freelance lighting director, designer, and RadioLoveFest Feb 9 associate designer. Throughout her career LET IT BE ME (Gilbert Becaud, Manny Kurtz, Pierre Leroyer) performed by Nina Simone courtesy of RCA Records/Sony label she has had the privilege of working with a group. Rights courtesy of Universal Music. wide range of amazing artists and companies DRINK TO ME (Ben Jonson) performed by . Courtesy including New York City Opera, BAM, New York of Capitol Records/Universal Music.

City Center, Glimmerglass Opera, American MAIS OUI MAMBO (, Conrad Gozzo) performed by Repertory Theatre, Dallas Opera, Center Stage Billy May. Appears courtesy of Universal Songs of Polygram in Baltimore, The Public Theater, SummerScape International Inc. at Bard College, and Den Nye Opera in the FALLOUT 2A (Anthony Barilla) Rights courtesy of Anthony Netherlands. Her Broadway associate credits Barilla. include The Color Purple, Noises Off, Violet, FILAMENTS (Podington Bear) Rights courtesy of Podington Bear. and The Real Thing. She currently resides in . DEEP BLUE DAY (Brian Peter George Eno, Roger Paul Eugene Eno, Daniel Roland Lanois) Rights courtesy of Opal Music PRS.

MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY is a ART OF THE CANON (Thomas Louis Hardin) performed by contemporary American dance company that Moondog. Courtesy of Roof Records. brings dance where it does not belong. We GET UP (I FEEL LIKE BEING A SEX MACHINE) (James Brown, create and produce each work entirely from Bobby Byrd, Ronald R. Lenhoff) performed by James Brown. 100% interest. (C) 1970 (Renewed) Dynatone Publishing its own rulebook—dancing to radio interviews Company (BMI) All rights administered by Unichappell Music on the biggest stages in the world, hosting Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. a weekly show in a crowded office party, or WHAT’LL I DO (Irving Berlin) performed by Nat King Cole. leading a choreographed exercise routine in an Published by Irvin Berlin Music. Rights courtesy of Virgin art museum. The company consists of a team Records. of collaborators—Monica Bill Barnes (artistic ONE (Marvin Hamlisch, Lawrence Kleban) Rights courtesy of director/choreographer); Anna Bass (associate Sony/ATV Music Publishing. artistic director/performer); designers Kelly Several stories in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host were Hanson (sets/costumes) and Jane Cox (lighting); adapted from radio stories first heard on This American Life. and Robbie Saenz de Viteri (creative producing director). Together, this team creates the most The poem Last Days, from Donald Hall’s collection Without, is used with permission. unlikely experiences for every kind of audience. monicabillbarnes.com The national tour of Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host is exclusively co-represented by Steven Barclay Agency and Pomegranate Arts. The original production, One Radio Host, Two Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host is Dancers, presented at the Annenberg Center in in made possible with support from The Dianne April 2013, was produced by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Chad Herzog, and Dance Affiliates. and Daniel Vapnek Family Fund. It is also made possible with support from the Rockefeller AT BAM—RECKLESS: STORIES OF Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for FALLING HARD AND FAST the Arts, and Jody and John Arnhold. This Feb 9, 7:30pm work was developed during a Choreographic BAM Harvey Theater Fellowship at the Maggie Allesee National Center Directed by Meg Bowles and Maggie Cino for Choreography at Florida State University, Produced by Anna Martin and was also supported through the Media Director of production Jennifer Birmingham Fellowship Initiative at MANCC. Executive directors Catherine Burns,

MUSIC CREDITS Sarah Haberman, and Sarah Austin Jenness CC RIDER (Ma Rainey) performed by Elvis Presley. Courtesy of Musician Rachel Gawell RCA/Sony Music. Audio engineer Noriko Okabe I’LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) Photographer Jason Falchook performed by Dionne Warwick. (C) 1968 (Renewed) New Videographer Joe Del Senno Hidden Valley Music Company (ASCAP) and Casa David Music (ASCAP). All rights on behalf of New Hidden Valley Music Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has Company. Administered by WP Music Corporation. All rights presented thousands of stories told live and reserved. Used by permission. RadioLoveFest Feb 9 without notes. 2017 marks The Moth’s 20th made her Pakistani in-laws proud). In 2007, anniversary year! Moth shows are renowned she delivered a boy, and in 2008, their family for the great range of human experience they of three moved to NYC. In 2013, she started showcase. Through ongoing programs in more doing stand-up because no one read her blog. than 25 cities, The Moth has presented over Her long-term goal is to be able to entertain from 20,000 stories to standing-room-only crowds bed. She is available for any kind of event— worldwide and it currently produces more than seriously, anything. @SuzieSaysSo 500 live shows each year. Additionally, The Moth runs storytelling workshops for high school NATASHA GUYNES is the founder of HER students and adults in underserved communities Resiliency Center, dedicated to supporting and through their education and community guiding vulnerable young women ages 18—25 programs. The Moth podcast is downloaded to becoming self-sufficient, independent adults. over 44 million times a year, and each week, Prior to founding HER, Guynes served on Capitol the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour Hill in the offices of Senator Harry Reid, Senator is heard on over 450 radio stations worldwide. Ben Nelson, Senator Brian Schatz, and the The Moth’s first book, The Moth: 50 True Stories Senate Commission on Long-Term Care, and (Hachette) was an international bestseller and its later worked for Media Matters for . new book All These Wonders: True Stories about She received her degree in political science Facing the Unknown from The Moth (Crown) will from Trinity-Washington University and served in be released on March 21. Americorps after graduation; she is currently an MPA candidate at the University of HOST Baltimore. A native of , Guynes DAN KENNEDY is host of The Moth podcast, lives in Washington, DC with her partner Kevin a longtime host and performer at Moth live and cats Fluff and Lovely. events, and has spent much of the last 15 years traveling the world performing and writing. ASHOK RAMASUBRAMANIAN was born in His stories have appeared in GQ magazine, on and moved to the US in 1996. Although the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio India has a rich tradition in oral folklore, Hour, in McSweeney’s, and in numerous print Ramasubramanian discovered storytelling only anthologies. He is the author of three books, by accident—a friend introduced him to the Front Loser Goes First (Random House/Crown 2003), Parlor storytelling series in Troy, NY in 2011. Rock On (Algonquin 2008, a Times of London Since then, he has been a regular at Front Parlor. Book of the Year; series rights bought by HBO) He has also performed with StoryDistrict in DC and American Spirit (Houghton Mifflin/Little and won a Moth Storyslam in Louisville, KY. He 2013, a Publisher’s Weekly starred review). was also featured once in The Moth Radio Hour. He has been a guest lecturer at Yale, and Besides storytelling, his other passions include a guest author at The Harvard Lampoon in barefoot running, reading, traveling, and solving celebration of his work anthologized in The Best differential equations. He lives in upstate New of McSweeney’s Humor. He lives in downtown York with his wife, Jennifer and kids Vinay and New York, where he is currently working on Avvai and teaches mechanical engineering at another screenplay. Union College in Schenectady, NY.

STORYTELLERS BOOTS RILEY is a co-founder of the critically SUZIE AFRIDI was born and raised in Jericho, acclaimed and overtly political hip-hop group in the West Bank. When she was 14 her family , as well as the group’s lead producer, moved to San Jose, CA. She attended San arranger, and songwriter. Riley is an activist Jose State University then pretended to be a whose fervent dedication to social change is the tax professional until her husband decided on overriding influence on every Coup album: his a whim to move to Dubai, where she lived for involvement in music was informed by earlier three years doing random jobs (none of which work in radical community organizing. Since RadioLoveFest Feb 9 its last release in 2012, The Coup has toured and pop culture pros , Mo Europe and the US extensively. In the summer Rocca, and . Along with Sagal, they of 2014, The Coup’s Shadowbox premiered at test listeners’ knowledge by deducing what’s real ’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. news and what’s made up. Airs Saturdays at Boots’ latest projects include the screenplay Sorry 11am on WNYC 93.9 FM and WNYC AM 820 to Bother You, published by McSweeney’s and and Sundays at 4pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For set to begin production later this year, as well as more information visit waitwait..org. a book of lyrics and anecdotes Tell Homeland Security—We Are The Bomb, out now on (host), prior to becoming host of Haymarket Books. Wait Wait in 1998, had a varied career including stints as a playwright, screenwriter, stage KAHLIE TOWLE grew up in rural Idaho, and director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, has made her home in Portland, OR with her travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter, and staff partner Karen, daughter Tegan, and dogs Letti writer for a motorcycle magazine. He lives in the and Reese. A true animal lover, Towle is a area with his family, and is working on veterinary anesthetist by day and a storyteller by a book titled The Big Book of Vices, about how night. Finding her place in storytelling culture people—other people, of course—misbehave. has been a dream come true: Towle has told Since he now has his own website, he is finally stories for Moth StorySLAMs and GrandSLAMs, a real boy. BackfencePDX Russian Roulette and Main Stage, 7 Deadly Sins, and The Best of RISK!. (judge and scorekeeper), for Next on her to-do list is getting her novel in many, was the face, the voice, and the hair of progress onto best-seller list. the news in Chicago. Along with his co-anchor, Walter Jacobson, Kurtis brought authority and MUSICIAN integrity to CBS-affiliate WBBM. Since then, RACHEL GAWELL, from rock bands to chamber he’s produced and hosted such shows as music ensembles to experimental noise music, Investigative Reports, American Justice, and distinguishes herself by pairing a rigorous Cold Case Files, and was also the narrator of conservatory skill set with enthusiasm for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. expanding what is possible on the cello. Her Essentially, if you hear Bill Kurtis saying your main creative project is Baba Sonya, whose May name, you’ve either committed a terrible crime, 2016 release The People Things Work Out For or you’re Will Ferrell. Kurtis is also the founder of Sessions, The Album enjoyed viral success on Tallgrass Beef Company, where, every night, he . Gawell has toured internationally and lulls his grass-fed cows to sleep by reading them her playing is featured on many studio albums. a bedtime story. Rachel studied at Peabody Conservatory and Rotterdams Conservatorium in The Netherlands, PETER GROSZ began his comedic training at iO and specialized in improvisation and avant- Chicago and wrote and performed in four revues garde music at the Institute and on ’s ETC stage. Films include Bowdoin’s Gamper Festival of Contemporary The Weatherman, The Promotion, Stranger Than Music. A Maryland native, Gawell now lives in Fiction, and Slow Learners. credits Brooklyn. Rachelgawell.com. include Key and Peele, , Inside , Vinyl, and a recurring role WAIT WAIT... DON’T TELL ME!® as lobbyist Sidney Purcell on . He won two National Public Radio writing for Feb 9, 7:30pm and wrote for Late Night With . He Howard Gilman Opera House has been the co-star of a national commercial Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!® is NPR’s weekly campaign for Sonic Drive-In since 2002. hour-long quiz program hosted by Peter Sagal. Panelists for this edition include comics, pundits, RadioLoveFest Feb 10

PAULA POUNDSTONE is an Emmy-award JON FAVREAU served as ’s head winning stand-up comedian and NBC’s The speechwriter from 2005—2013, a role that Tonight Show correspondent. She was the was far more senior and influential than Jon first woman to win a Cable Ace Award for Lovett’s. Since leaving the White House, Favreau Best Standup Comedy Special, and the first has spoken about politics and speechwriting woman to perform stand-up at the White to audiences throughout the world, written House Correspondents dinner. Poundstone has for publications like The Daily Beast and The had numerous standup comedy specials and Ringer, and started a political podcast with three television appearances, covered the ’92 election of his Obama friends in the ideologically diverse for Jay Leno, and just released her second bellwether of . Favreau grew up comedy album, I HEART JOKES: Paula Tells outside of and graduated from the College Them in Boston. of the Holy Cross.

MO ROCCA is a correspondent for CBS Sunday TOMMY VIETOR, before seeking fame and Morning, host of The Henry Ford Innovation fortune through podcasting, spent nearly a Nation on CBS, and host and creator of My decade working as a spokesman for President Grandmother’s Ravioli on the . Barack Obama. Vietor served as President He has appeared on most every cable network, Obama’s National Security Spokesman, where including Telemundo, where he wowed he was the media’s primary contact on all audiences in a small but pivotal role in the hit foreign policy and national security issues, and telenovela Amor Descarado. He appeared on as Assistant White House Press Secretary, where Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County he handled foreign policy, education, and labor Spelling Bee. His book All the Presidents’ Pets issues. In case you’re still reading, he was also blows the lid off the White House’s deepest, Obama’s flak in Iowa during the caucuses and darkest secrets. worked in his Senate office. Now he spends his days tweeting and getting interrupted by Jon JON FAVREAU, JON LOVETT, AND Lovett. He grew up in Boston and graduated TOMMY VIETOR from Kenyon College. Feb 10, 7:30pm BAM Harvey Theater SNAP JUDGMENT LIVE! JON LOVETT is a straight shooter widely Feb 10, 7:30pm respected on all sides. He earned this reputation Howard Gilman Opera House (which is seriously fantastic, ask people) as Dramatic tales, killer beats and the edgiest new a speechwriter for and as a talent in storytelling come together for a weekly presidential speechwriter in the Obama White radio hour and podcast driven by the creative House. Lovett has written truly excellent force that is host Glynn Washington. It’s a raw, speeches, really great, on a range of policy musical brand of storytelling that dares listeners issues. He helped write the president’s annual to see the world through the eyes of another— remarks to the White House Correspondents storytelling with a beat, with a mission to “rock Dinner. Many people say Lovett is one of the the world.” Produced by Snap Judgment and funniest guys to do this. The jokes are just WNYC Studios, and distributed nationwide by terrific. In the years since he’s become a really WNYC. big league writer in Hollywood. He had a hit sitcom on NBC called 1600 Penn which was GLYNN WASHINGTON is the host and executive cancelled by some crooked, disgusting people. producer of Snap Judgment, heard on over Totally rigged deal. Also Jon has a great brain. 400 public radio stations nationwide (and He went to Williams, OK? One of the top guys. downloaded over two million times each month.) Distributed by WNYC Studios, Snap delivers a raw, intimate, musical brand of storytelling, daring listeners to see the world through the RadioLoveFest Feb 10—11 eyes of another. Before creating Snap Judgment, BBC, and NPR. He’s the host and creator of Washington worked as an educator, diplomat, the circus and variety show Tourettes Without community activist, actor, political strategist, Regrets, which Huffington Post called “the best fist-shaker, mountain-hollerer, and foot stomper. underground performance show in America”. He composed music for the Kunst Stoff dance DeWolf has written and directed the feature film performances in San Francisco, rocked live Smoked and dozens of award winning shorts. To spoken word poetry in , joined a band in watch his films and his album Vaudevillian check Indonesia, wrote several screenplays, painted a out jamiedewolf.com. daring series of self portraits, released a blues album, and thinks his stories are best served JAMES JUDD is a stage performer and writer. with cocktails. He has regaled millions of public radio listeners with his comedic autobiographical monologues. DON REED is an award winning multi- From his one-man show Killer Quack to his hyphenate storyteller/comedian/playwright/ performances at the Fringe festival to producer born and raised in Oakland, CA. His his new book Now I Know, he blazes a path stories often cover an arc from hilarity to tragedy of destruction while pursuing a wide range of and back again. His five acclaimed one-man professions. His escapades have landed him shows have run off-broadway from NYC to in a Chinese brothel, in a shark cage, and in a San Francisco. He is best known for his courtroom defending a client even he wanted appearances on HBO, Showtime, and locked up. JamesBJudd.com with Jay Leno, but best remembered for his autobiographical Snap BELLS ATLAS emerges from the vibrant cultural Judgment story “I Miss Toni.” and musical backdrop of Oakland, CA. Blending heavy percussion, soulful vocal harmonies, and KATIE LEAVITT, while in elementary school, thoughtful arrangements, this dynamic group has was spotted in a crowd of hundreds at a concert arrived at a sound uniquely its own. Primarily by her mother, who was looking for the only comprising four core members with a musical two raised hands clapping totally out of sync. chemistry that compliments and surprises, She is thrilled to now be a part of storytelling the sonic palette created by Bells Atlas is deep with a beat. Leavitt spent several years on E!’s and exciting. It captures the spirit of eclectic The Soup, recurring in sketches that required influences (soul, West African and Brazilian minimal clapping, and now splits her time rhythms, noise pop, psychedelia) and draws between entertainment and the far lower-key a wide audience with diverse tastes, setting industry of forensic social work. the stage from a world of its own. Its musical intuitions explore cinematic sonic landscapes JEN KOBER, originally from Louisiana, has and relentless movement. You can find the bounded onto the national scene with her hard group’s album and Hyperlust EP on Bandcamp hitting power hour of stand-up and storytelling. and iTunes. She has appeared on HBO’s Treme and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and most recently appeared on BULLSEYE COMEDY NIGHT The Middle (ABC) and Kevin Hart’s sitcom The Feb 11, 7:30pm Real Husbands of Hollywood. Take home Kober’s BAM Harvey Theater double CD which she will be selling in the lobby For one night only, Bullseye from NPR brings after tonight’s show! JenKober.com its discerning taste for culture to Brooklyn, with a curated lineup of comedians performing as JAMIE DEWOLF is an internationally touring part of RadioLoveFest 2017. Your host for the writer, performer, playwright, film director, and evening is Guy Branum, the host of Bullseye’s showman from Oakland, CA. He’s a three-time sister show Pop Rocket. Coming with him from Poetry Slam Grand Champion, an HBO Def the west coast is Solomon Giorgio, and we’ll Jam poet, and has been featured on A&E, Vice, also have East Coast favorites , RadioLoveFest Feb 11

Maeve Higgins, and Hari Kondabolu. The HARI KONDABOLU is a Brooklyn-based comic Bullseye Comedy Night brings some of the most whom The New York Times called “one of important, trenchant, and funny voices to the the most exciting political comics in stand-up Harvey Theater stage. today.” In 2014, he released his debut standup album Waiting for 2042 on Kill Rock Stars. He GUY BRANUM is a writer and comedian who was NYU’s APA Institute’s artist in residence hosts Bullseye’s sister show, the culture round (2014—15). He has done standup on The Late table Pop Rocket. He’s also the host of the Show with David Letterman, , Jimmy upcoming TruTV series : The Game Kimmel Live, , and ’s Show. He’s appeared on E!, MTV, G4, CurrentTV New York Standup Show. His and lots of other channels you’d need to upgrade Presents half-hour television special debuted your cable to watch. He’s written for Punk’d on in February 2011. He was also a writer and MTV and Fashion Police on E!. That means he’s correspondent for the -produced watched the Grammys at Joan Rivers’ house. Totally Biased on FX. In the UK, Kondabolu has Jealous? Branum also writes for the “Gay Voices” appeared on BBC 3’s Russell Howard’s Good section of The Huffington Post and occasionally News, Live at the Electric, and Channel 4’s 8 out makes web vidoes where he dances around 10 Cats, and performed at the 2011 Edinburgh without his shirt on. But mostly, Branum is very, Fringe Festival. He has performed at festivals very beautiful and good at having sex. including the HBO Comedy Festival, SXSW, Aspen Ideas Festival, and Just for Laughs. SOLOMON GEORGIO emerged from the When in NYC, he co-hosts the talk show The comedy scene with his own brand of indignant Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project with his irreverence. He intertwines biting social younger brother Ashok, and their podcast. commentary with stories of his life as an openly He wrote the Nov 2011 cover story for Spin gay African immigrant. Georgio had his television magazine about , and is a former debut in February 2015 as the featured video blogger for World Compass. Kondabolu comedian on Conan, and immediately followed was born and raised in Queens, NY. He it up with an appearance on Last Call with attended Bowdoin College and Wesleyan Carson Daily, Comedy Central’s This Is Not University, graduating from the former with a Happening, and The Meltdown with Jonah & BA in comparative politics in 2004. A former Kumail. He is also the host of several episodes immigrant rights organizer in Seattle, he also of Viceland’s Flophouse. earned a masters in human rights from the London School of Economics in 2008. MAEVE HIGGINS, a TV star in her native Ireland, has performed all over the world, PHOEBE ROBINSON is a stand-up comedian, including in Edinburgh, Melbourne, and most writer, and actress whom Vulture.com, recently Erbil. Now based in New York, she’s Essence, and Esquire have named one of the made a name for herself there too. In a good top comedians to watch. She has appeared on way! She co-hosts Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and Last Call on National Geographic and has appeared in with Carson Daly; Comedy Central’s , Comedy Central’s . Higgins The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, and @ hosts a live show every month with author Jon midnight with Chris Hardwick, as well as TBS’ Ronson and is a frequent guest at the Eugene Full Frontal with . Robinson’s Mirman Comedy Festival. She is writing a book writing has been featured in of funny essays for Penguin, due for publication and on Glamour.com, TheDailyBeast.com, in late 2017. She also makes great radio and is VanityFair.com, Vulture.com, and NYTimes.com. currently hosting a podcast about immigration She was also a staff writer on MTV’s hit talking called Maeve In America for . head show, Girl Code, as well as a consultant on Higgins says “yikes” a lot and her favorite food is season three of Broad City. Most recently, she peanut butter. created and starred in Refinery29’s web series RadioLoveFest BAMcafé LIVE—Feb 10 & 11

Woke Bae and, alongside Jessica Williams of currently working on his debut album. His , she is the creator and costar of newest music features not only his abilities as the hit WNYC podcast 2 Dope Queens as well as a saxophonist and songwriter, but also his the creator and host of the new WNYC podcast vocals. Braxton melds all of these elements into Sooo Many White Guys. Robinson lives and his music creating a unique genre, blending performs stand-up in Brooklyn, and posts weekly sound that could be described as Millennial musings about race, gender, and pop culture on Jazz— accessible to the avid jazz listener as well her blog, Blaria.com (aka Black ). as to the R&B and soul music lover. blaria.com | : @dopequeenpheebs Feb 11, 9pm BAMCAFÉ LIVE BAMcafé TERRANCE MCKNIGHT (BAMcafé Live band GERARDO CONTINO Y LOS HABANEROS curator) is the WQXR weekday evening host. The explosive Los Habaneros mix musical styles Previously, he also hosted the former Saturday from their native Cuba with the sounds from evening program, All Ears with Terrance New York City, now their home. They transcend McKnight, a show about musical discovery, traditional musical genres to create a real fusion. which was honored with an ASCAP Deems The band comprises a young generation of Taylor Radio Broadcast Award in 2010. Havana-trained musicians, including director McKnight’s musical experiences—from glee club and singer Gerardo Contino, artistic director and soloist and accomplished pianist, to professor at pianist Axel Tosca Laugart, and percussionist Morehouse College, and finally as producer and Yusnier Sanchez Bustamante. The band’s first host of several music programs for public radio— album, Somos Latinos (2013), released to have consistently juxtaposed the European critical acclaim, was produced by Latin Grammy- classical tradition alongside American classic nominated Luisito Quintero, and included traditions, such as jazz, gospel, African-American Grammy-winning bassist John Benitez. Los spirituals, and other musical genres. McKnight Habaneros have toured in Peru, Canada, Qatar, has hosted and produced several specials for and the US. They have played at the Kennedy WQXR including I, Too, Sing America: Music Center for the Arts as official performers for in the Life of Langston Hughes, A Beautiful TEDMED, American Folk Festival, BAM, BB King Symphony of Brotherhood: A Musical Journey Blues Club, Subrosa, Greene Space, Sounds in the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., A Musical of Brazil, Le Poisson Rouge, Bronx Museum, Biography of Pioneering Pianist Hazel Scott, American Museum of Natural History, Live at the and A Musical Biography of Florence Beatrice Gantries, Roulette, Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Taj, and Price. Other activities for McKnight include others. Their second album, Los Habaneros, will appearances as a panelist or speaker with be released in Spring 2017. Chamber Music America, the Mellon Foundation, American Opera Projects, and the Metropolitan GERARDO CONTINO (director), born in Havana, Museum of Art’s concert and lecture series, was lead singer of Cuban supergroup NG La among others. Banda and joined the Max Weinberg Orchestra as lead Latin singer and Larry Harlow’s Latin Feb 10, 9:30pm Legends Band. He has toured throughout the BAMcafé world, performing at salsa and jazz festivals, and BRAXTON COOK is one of this generation’s has played with countless renowned artists. He brightest up-and-coming alto saxophonists and received his education in Law at the University songwriters. He has performed alongside Wynton of Havana and his Master’s in Law (LLM) Marsalis, Jon Batiste, and has toured the world at Cardozo School of Law in the prestigious many times over with Grammy-nominated Intellectual Property Program. trumpeter Christian Scott while attending The Juilliard School. As a bandleader, he has already recorded and released two projects and is now

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