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BAM 2016 Winter/Spring Season #RadioLoveFest

Brooklyn Academy of Music Public Radio Alan H. Fishman, 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 Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Susan Rebell Solomon, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Katy Clark, President Mayo Stuntz, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Laura R. Walker, President & CEO

BAM and WNYC present RadioLoveFest Produced by BAM and WNYC March 10—12

LIVE PERFORMANCES Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!®, NPR®, Mar 10, 7:30pm, OH Into The Deep: The Moth at BAM, Mar 10, 7:30pm, HT Laura Poitras and —Interviewed by Brian Lehrer, Mar 11, 7:30pm, OH Selected Shorts: Dangers and Discoveries—A Presentation of Symphony Space, Mar 11, 7:30pm, HT : Radio Revue, Mar 12, 7:30pm, OH Death, Sex & Money, Mar 12, 7:30pm, HT

SCREENINGS—7:30pm, BRC BAMCAFÉ LIVE—9:30pm, BC, free Scream, host: Sean Rameswaram, Mar 11 Curated by Terrance McKnight A League of Their Own, host: Molly Webster, Mar 12 PUBLIQuartet, Mar 11 Addi & Jacq, Mar 12

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Delta is the Official Airline of RadioLoveFest. VENUE KEY Major support provided by the Joseph & Diane Steinberg Charitable Trust. BC=BAMcafé BRC=BAM Rose Cinemas Forest City Ratner Companies is a major sponsor of RadioLoveFest. HT=BAM Harvey Theater OH=BAM Howard Gilman Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation. Opera House #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12

WAIT WAIT... DON’T TELL ME!® Correspondents dinner. Poundstone has had NPR® numerous standup comedy specials and television Mar 10, 7:30pm appearances, covered the ’92 election for Jay Howard Gilman Opera House Leno, and just released her second comedy CD, I HEART JOKES: Paula Tells Them in . Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!® is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program hosted by . is a correspondent for CBS News Panelists for this edition include comics, pundits, Sunday Morning, host of The Henry Ford’s and pop culture pros , Mo Innovation Nation on CBS, and host and creator Rocca, and . Along with Sagal, they of My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the Cooking test listeners’ knowledge by deducing what’s real Channel. He has appeared on most every cable news and what’s made up. Airs Saturdays at network, including , where he wowed 11am on WNYC 93.9 FM and WNYC AM 820 audiences in a small but pivotal role in the hit and Sundays at 4pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For telenovela Amor Descarado. He appeared on more information visit waitwait..org. Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His book All the Presidents’ Pets PETER SAGAL (host), prior to host of blows the lid off the White House’s deepest, Wait Wait in 1998, had a varied career including darkest secrets. stints as a playwright, screenwriter, stage director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, FAITH SALIE is an Emmy-winning contributor to travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter, and staff CBS News Sunday Morning. She helped launch writer for a motorcycle magazine. He lives in the ’s channel on Sirius XM. area with his family, and is working on She often opines on television, having appeared a book titled The Big Book of Vices, about how on the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Oprah—on the people—other people, of course—misbehave. shows, not the people. Perhaps dubiously, she Since he now has his own website, he is finally was the ethics expert for O, the Oprah Magazine. a real boy. As host of the national public radio show Fair Game, she interviewed newsmakers from Lorne (judge and scorekeeper), for Michaels to President Carter to . many, was the face, the voice, and the of Salie graduated from Harvard where she pulled the news in Chicago. Along with his co-anchor, the football away from Mo Rocca when he Walter Jacobson, Kurtis brought authority and played Charlie Brown and she played Lucy in integrity to CBS-affiliate WBBM. Since then, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She received he’s produced and hosted such shows as her master’s degree from Oxford University, Investigative Reports, American Justice, and where her fellow Rhodes scholars went on to Cold Case Files, and was also the narrator of become governors, senators, and mayors, while Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. she landed on a collectible trading card Essentially, if you hear Bill Kurtis saying your worth hundreds of cents. Her first book, name, you’ve either committed a terrible crime, Approval Junkie, will be published in 2016 by or you’re Will Ferrell. Kurtis is also the founder of Crown. Tallgrass Beef Company, where, every night, he lulls his grass-fed cows to sleep by reading them INTO THE DEEP: THE MOTH AT BAM a bedtime story. March 10, 7:30 PM BAM Harvey Theater PAULA POUNDSTONE is an Emmy-award winning stand-up comedian and NBC’s The Directed by Catherine Burns, Maggie Cino, Tonight Show correspondent. She was the Sarah Austin Jenness, and Jenelle Pifer first woman to win a Cable Ace Award for Produced by Michelle Jalowski Best Standup Comedy Special, and the first Executive directors Catherine Burns, woman to perform stand-up at the White House Sarah Haberman, and Sarah Austin #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit small town of Blackstone, MA, where he made a organization dedicated to the art and craft of name for himself by dying twice before the age of 18 storytelling, and a recipient of a 2012 John and becoming the first student in his high school to D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation be suspended for inciting riot upon himself. MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions (MACEI). Through its ongoing TED HARTLEY is CEO of RKO Pictures, producer programs—The Moth Mainstage, The Moth of movies, TV, and stage shows. He was StorySLAMs, The Moth Community & Education previously a fighter pilot and an actor. Hartley Programs, and Moth Corporate Programs—The is on the board of Orbis International, an NGO Moth has presented more than 17,000 stories, dedicated to saving sight worldwide. told live and without notes, to standing-room- only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is OMAR MUSA is a Malaysian-Australian author, downloaded over 27 million times a year, and rapper, and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio He is the former winner of the Australian Poetry Hour, produced by Jay Allison and presented by Slam and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam. He has PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, airs weekly released three hip-hop albums, two poetry books on over 500 radio stations nationwide. The new (including Parang), appeared on ABC’s Q&A, Moth Mobile App for iOS and Android, and the and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney international bestseller, The Moth: 50 True Stories at the Sydney Opera House. He has toured his (Hachette), are available now. themoth.org poetry and music extensively internationally, in Asia, the US, Europe, South America, and STEVE BURNS (host) is best known for playing Australia. His debut novel, Here Come the Dogs, “Steve” on ’s Blue’s Clues from was published by Penguin Australia in 2014 1996—2002. Since then, he has hosted and and long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. He told stories for The Moth, released a rock record was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s for grown-ups that received pretty good reviews, Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. He is toured with , made an album currently working on a new album and a novel of music for children, and appeared in strange that is set in Malaysia and Indonesia. plays, mostly in . CATHERINE PALMER is an audiologist and MATTHEW DICKS is the internationally university professor. Her stories center around bestselling author of the novels The Perfect well-meaning parenting gone wrong resulting in Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, Memoirs of an various adventures around the world. She grew Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, and up in the Boston area and lived in Taos, NM; Unexpectedly, Milo and the rock opera The Long Beach, CA; and Chicago before settling in Clowns. His novels have been translated into Pittsburgh, where she and her husband have more than 25 languages worldwide. He’s also raised their two boys. She is a frequent storyteller the humor columnist for Seasons magazine at the Pittsburgh Moth StorySLAM. and the co-host of the podcast Boy vs. Girl. When not hunched over a computer screen, he JON SPURNEY (musician) most recently fills his days as an elementary school teacher, created music for and appeared on camera a public speaker, a blogger, a wedding DJ, a in Documentary Now! with Fred Armisen and minister, a life coach, and a Lord of Sealand. , which airs on IFC. He appeared on He is a former West Hartford Teacher of the Year Broadway in the Tony award-winning musical and a 20-time Moth StorySLAM champion and Passing Strange, as well as in the version three-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories directed by , and has composed music have been featured on the Moth Radio Hour and for Show with and The This American Life. Dicks is married to friend Colbert Report. He has performed with Elton and fellow teacher, Elysha, and they have two John, Stevie Wonder, , , children, Clara and Charlie. He grew up in the , and John Cale. #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12

LAURA POITRAS AND the US occupation of Iraq was nominated for an EDWARD SNOWDEN Academy Award. Part two, The Oath, focused INTERVIEWED BY BRIAN LEHRER on Guantanamo and the war on terror and was March 11, 7:30 PM nominated for two . Astro Noise, Howard Gilman Opera House her first solo museum exhibition, was curated by Jay Sanders and opened at the Whitney Museum BRIAN LEHRER (host) is host of The Brian in 2016. The exhibition consists of a series of Lehrer Show, WNYC’s daily call-in program immersive installations and new work: Anarchist; covering politics and life, locally and globally. O’Say Can You See; Bed Down Location; The show airs weekdays from 10am—noon on Disposition Matrix; November 20, 2004; and WNYC 93.9 FM, AM 820, and wnyc.org. The Last Seen. She is currently editing Asylum, an Brian Lehrer Show was recognized with a 2007 episodic behind-the-scenes series about Julian George Foster Peabody Award for “Radio That Assange and WikiLeaks. She has received many Builds Community Rather Than Divides.” honors for her work, including a MacArthur Guests range from political figures such as Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a , John McCain, , Peabody Award. She has attended the Sundance and to cultural figures such as Institute Documentary Labs as both a fellow and , Spike Lee, and Margaret Atwood, creative advisor. In 2006, the US government to homeless people and middle placed her on a secret watchlist and, through school students. Lehrer is also a commentator 2012, she was detained and interrogated at the on local and national issues. He has appeared US border each time she traveled internationally. on major TV networks and has written op-ed To protect her footage from being seized at pieces for major publications. He hosts a weekly the US border, she relocated to Berlin in television program, POTUS 2016, about the 2012. In January 2013, she received the first presidential race, on CUNY-TV. In addition encrypted email from Edward Snowden who to the Peabody, Lehrer has won numerous used the alias “.” After five months of awards, including seven New correspondence, she traveled to Hong Kong with York Broadcasters “Best Interview” Awards . Her video from Hong Kong since 2000. Lehrer has been a questioner in of Edward Snowden revealing his identity was televised New York City mayoral debates in broadcast worldwide. Her reporting on NSA mass every election from 1997 to 2013. He has surveillance based on Snowden’s disclosures hosted his eponymous program, originally won the George Polk Award for national security called On The Line, since its inception in 1989. journalism, and shares in the 2014 Pulitzer Prior, he was an anchor and reporter for the Prize for Public Service. In 2015 the Electronic NBC Radio Networks, and an award-winning Frontier Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit against author and documentary producer. Lehrer holds the US government to obtain her FBI and other master’s degrees in public health from Columbia government files. Over 800 pages have been University and journalism from Ohio State released. She has taught filmmaking at Yale and University and a bachelor’s in music and mass Duke Universities, and is on the board of the communications from the State University of Freedom of the Press Foundation. Along with AJ New York at Albany. Schnack and Charlotte Cook, she is co-creator of Field of Vision. LAURA POITRAS is a filmmaker, journalist, and artist. Citizenfour, the third installment of EDWARD SNOWDEN is a former intelligence her post 9/11 trilogy, won an Academy Award officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for for Best Documentary, along with awards from nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on the British Film Academy, Independent Spirit technology and cybersecurity. In 2013, he Awards, Director’s Guild of America, German revealed that the NSA was seizing the private Filmpreis, , and others. Part records of billions of individuals who had not one of the trilogy, My Country, My Country, about been suspected of any wrongdoing, resulting in #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12 the most significant reforms to US surveillance and The Affair. In 2014, she appeared in the policy since 1978. He has received awards for Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real courage, integrity, and public service, and was Thing as Charlotte, the mother of the character named the top global thinker of 2013 by Foreign she created in the same play 30 years ago. In Policy magazine. Today, he works on methods of real life, Nixon spends a good portion of her enforcing human rights through the application off-time fighting for funding for New York public and development of new technologies. He joined schools and for LGBT equality. the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation in February, 2014. JOHN is the writer and original star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He SELECTED SHORTS: DANGERS also wrote and directed and directed AND DISCOVERIES starring . Additional A PRESENTATION OF SYMPHONY SPACE stage appearances include , The Secret March 11, 7:30pm, BAM Harvey Theater Garden, Six Degrees of Separation, and ’s , for which he won Over 30 years ago Selected Shorts began an . He appeared as e-book editor as a performance/reading series on stage at David Pressler-Goings on Girls, and directed Symphony Space. The series was conceived a Showtime comedy pilot entitled Happyish with a simple premise: take great stories by starring the late . He is well-known and emerging writers and have currently filming How to Talk to Girls at Parties, them performed by terrific actors. The stories are a screen adaptation of ’s punk-era mostly fiction, sometimes classic, sometimes short story. new, always performed by great Broadway and Hollywood actors who bring these short stories to has appeared on stage life. The series was an instant hit; people loved in Caroline, or Change, for which she won a to be read to. Evenings are often co-hosted by Tony Award and a ; Cat writers and other interesting characters, literary on a Hot Tin Roof; and most recently A Raisin publications, and museums. Many performances in the Sun, for which she was nominated for are later included in digital compilations. The a Tony Award. Her other stage credits include radio series is distributed by Public Radio the Encores! productions of The Cradle Will International and airs Thursdays at 9pm on Rock and Purlie; the New York Philharmonic’s WNYC 93.9 FM and Sundays at 1pm on WNYC production of Company; Maggie in Cat on a Hot AM 820 and 10pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For Tin Roof opposite Terrence Howard, James Earl more information, visit selectedshorts.org. Jones, and Phylicia Rashad; Footloose; and Eli’s Coming. She has appeared on television in The (host) made her film debut in Good Wife, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Little Darlings at 12 years old and her Broadway and most recently joined the cast of Power and debut at 14 in The Story. Since the upcoming miniseries Roots. Her film work then she’s appeared in more than 40 plays, includes Dreamgirls, Disney’s The Princess & countless and television shows, and The Frog, Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls, Just received Emmy, Grammy, and . Add Water, and Half of a Yellow Sun. Rose is a Best known for her role as Miranda on HBO’s three-time NAACP Image Award nominee. , Nixon has recently appeared in the films 5 Flights Up, alongside Diane Keaton AMY RYAN was voted Best Supporting Actress and , in Josh Mond’s indie by the New York, Los Angeles, Boston, San film James White, Nikole Beckwith’s drama Francisco, and Washington, DC film critics Stockholm, Pennsylvania, opposite Saoirse circles, and nominated for an Academy Award Ronan, The Adderall Diaries, the upcoming for her performance in the film Gone Baby , as , and on Gone. Additional film credits include Birdman, television in Hannibal, , The Big C, You Can Count on Me, Capote, Before the Devil #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12

Knows You’re Dead, Jack Goes Boating, Green voice can be heard on many commercial jingles, Zone, Win Win, Breathe In, and most recently, including spots for Aquafresh, Mr. Clean, Playtex, Goosebumps and Bridge of Spies. Her extensive and Febreze. She is a graduate of Vassar and theater career includes Tony-nominated roles in lives in Brooklyn. Uncle Vanya and A Streetcar Named Desire. On television, Ryan had recurring roles on In ROB FISHER is an internationally recognized Treatment, The Wire, and The Office. Upcoming music director, conductor, and pianist, and a films include The Infiltrator, Monster Trucks, and leading figure in American music and musical Central Intelligence. theater. He has been a guest of virtually every major orchestra in the country as conductor or GARRISON KEILLOR: RADIO REVUE pianist. With the New York Philharmonic, he March 12, 7:30 PM has conducted the acclaimed concert versions Howard Gilman Opera House of and as well as Mr. Keillor at 70. At Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra GARRISON KEILLOR (host) Garrison Keillor of St. Luke’s, he led gala performances of Guys was born in 1942 in Anoka, MN and began his and Dolls and . Recent radio career as a freshman at the University of highlights include debuts with the Philadelphia , from which he graduated in 1966. and orchestras, and appearances with He went to work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. in 1969, and on July 6, 1974, he hosted the Luke’s, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, first broadcast of and National Symphony Orchestras. Fisher was in St. Paul. Today, nearly 4 million listeners on founding music director and conductor of the 700 public radio stations coast-to-coast and Encores! series from its beyond tune in to the show each week. Keillor inception in 1994 until 2005. The series earned has been honored with Grammy, ACE, and a 2000 Tony Award, and in 1997, Fisher was George Foster , the National given the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Humanities Medal, and election to the American Special Achievement. He continues to be a Academy of Arts and Letters. His many books regular guest music director for the series. He include Days, The Book of Guys, also made numerous recordings for Encores!, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, and including the Grammy-winning Chicago cast the Straight Skinny, and The Keillor Reader album. In addition to collaborating in concert with (Viking). He is the host of the daily program such artists as , Kelli O’Hara, The Writer’s Almanac and the editor of several , and , Fisher anthologies of poetry, most recently, Good has conducted Patti LuPone’s engagements Poems: American Places (Viking). In 2006, with various orchestras across the country. He Keillor played himself in the movie adaptation of conducted the San Francisco Symphony in the his show, a film directed by . He Emmy-winning concert production of Sweeney has two grandsons and in 2007 he opened an Todd with LuPone and . Fisher has independent bookstore, Common Good Books, a long association with Lincoln Center’s American in St. Paul, the city where he and his wife and Songbook series as a producer and music director. daughter make their home. He has appeared as music director for the Lyrics and Lyricists series at New York’s 92nd Street CHRISTINE DIGIALLONARDO has appeared in Y. He appeared twice on In Performance at the Carousel (on Live from Lincoln Center), Annie White House for President and Mrs. Clinton. Get Your Gun; Lady, Be Good!; ; For four seasons he was music director for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Fiorello! (City Garrison Keillor’s American Radio Company and Center Encores!); The Sound of Music (Carnegie continues as a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Hall); and My Fair Lady (Avery Fisher Hall). Companion. Broadway credits as conductor/music She has performed often on A Prairie Home director include Tony-winning revivals of Chicago, Companion, both solo and with her sisters. Her Hair, , and . #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12

DEATH, SEX & MONEY past fall, Ali wrapped ’s and March 12, 7:30 PM Adele Romanski-produced , BAM Harvey Theater Moonlight, and reprised his role as District 13’s Head of Security, Boggs, in The Hunger Death, Sex & Money is WNYC’s show that gets Games: Mockingjay—Part 2. Ali will next appear very personal about the dilemmas we all share. in Gary Ross’s civil war-era drama The Free Since launching in May 2014, the show has State of Jones with Matthew McConaughey featured intimate conversations with celebrities (STX Entertainment, releasing May 13, 2016). and listeners about money and relationships, On television, Ali will appear in and infidelity, career shifts, parenting, mental illness, Marvel Entertainment’s Luke Cage as Cornell divorce, gender identity, dying, and more. Death, “Cottonmouth” Stokes, which will premiere on Sex & Money was recently named the number Netflix in 2016. Ali can be seen on the Netflix one podcast of 2015 by New York Magazine. series House of Cards, reprising the role of Remy Danton for a fourth season (March 2016). ANNA SALE (host) is the creator and host of Ali’s previous feature film credits include The Death, Sex & Money, the interview show from Place Beyond the Pines, Crossing Over, Go WNYC Studios about the things that we think for Sisters, and The Curious Case of Benjamin about a lot and need to talk about more. Dubbed Button. On television, he appeared in Lifetime’s “The Queen of the Awkward Pause” by Fast The Wronged Man for which he subsequently Company, Sale has contributed interviews to received a NAACP Nomination for Best Actor. with and reported for This On stage, Ali appeared in productions of Smart American Life, NPR, Studio 360, Newshour, and People, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The School Slate. for Scandal, A Lie of the Mind, A Doll’s House, Monkey in the Middle, The Merchant of Venice, AMATUS spent the earlier years of her life in the The New Place, and Secret Injury, Secret South Side of Chicago across the street from the Revenge. Born in Oakland, CA and raised in Cabrini Green Projects in her father’s mosque. Hayward, CA, Ali received his bachelor of arts When dealing with multiple deaths from gun degree in Mass Communications at St. Mary’s violence it can be easy to get lost, but it can also College and a master’s in acting from New York prove one’s resilience. This happened with University. Amatus; facing adversity, she stayed determined by making art and music for the soul. Amatus’s LISA FISCHER is stepping into the spotlight at debut EP, Broken Compass, has been featured last. After four decades of singing background in blogs such as Pigeons and Planes, Afro vocals for icons like the Rolling Stones, Tina Punk, Hollywood Playlist, and The Source. Turner, Chaka Khan, and Nine Inch Nails, Her latest project, Daisy and Max, for which Fischer is finally offering her own humble, she composed the score, is a documentary heartfelt song, accompanied by her inventive for Al Jazeera America and aired in December new band Grand Baton. The busy past 18 2015. She scored Dominique Morrisseau’s Obie months have included performances at the Award-winning play Sunset Baby for Labyrinth Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals, the Theater Company. Amatus has also collaborated , and in major cities all over with artists Meshell Ndegeocello, Roy Hargrove, the world. The success of the Oscar-winning and , to name a few, and has scored documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013) projects for PBS, Shakespeare Festival, altered the course of Fischer’s musical journey. 651 Arts, POV, Ford Foundation, and Rooftop The film told her story with clips of her 1991 Films. Her new LP is set to release this spring. Grammy-winning R&B hit “How Can I Ease the Pain,” footage of her legendary duets with Mick MAHERSHALA ALI is in demand in Hollywood Jagger on “Gimme Shelter,” and testimonials with his diverse skill set and wide-ranging from colleagues like Sting and Patti Austin. background in film, television, and theater. This It showcased her virtuosity and vulnerability, #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12 opened a window on her sometimes lonely As a teenager, she was a classical South Indian life on the road, earned her a second Grammy dancer, an athlete who played multiple sports, award, and left audiences eager to see and hear and a writer who was published in a variety more. Fischer set out on her first tour with no of magazines. She would become a doctor in recordings or video to help book and promote her 20s and had a practice in her hometown. shows, headlining first in small clubs, moving She would eventually give up her practice to get quickly to festivals and concert halls. Journalists, married and raise two children, Hari and Ashok. music business insiders, and supporters jumped She would return to work in the 1990s, eventually in to spread the word. “Her glamorous girl next running a hospital’s catheterization lab. door quality makes fans all over the world think she’s their own secret discovery,” said Broadway ROSIE PEREZ, an Academy Award, Golden World. Fischer has found ideal coconspirators Globe, and Emmy-nominated actress and in Grand Baton. The band’s organic fusion of choreographer, has been drawing attention with African, Middle Eastern, and Caribbean rhythms, riveting dramatic performances since the 90s psychedelic soul, and progressive rock reflects in Spike Lee’s renowned classic Do the Right Fischer’s freedom of expression. Thing, Ron Shelton’s White Men Can’t Jump, and Peter Weir’s Fearless. Perez returned to HARI KONDABOLU is a Brooklyn-based, Broadway this past year for the highly ­successful Queens-raised comic praised by The New York Fish with Larry David. On the big Times as “one of the most exciting political screen, her performance in Fearless garnered her comics in stand-up today.” In 2014, he released a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination. his critically-acclaimed debut standup album Perez’s film credits include Andrew Bergman’s Waiting for 2042 on indie label Kill Rock Stars. It Could Happen to You, among many others. Kondabolu has done standup on The Late Show She received rave reviews for her performance with David Letterman, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel in The Ritz and made her Broadway debut in Live, and John Oliver’s New York Standup Show. the hit revival of Terence McNally’s Frankie and His Comedy Central Presents half-hour television Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Perez received special debuted on the network in 2011. He critical acclaim for her directorial debut, Yo Soy was also a writer and correspondent for the Chris Boricua Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!, a documentary Rock-produced Totally Biased with W. Kamau which celebrates Puerto Rican pride. Throughout Bell on FX. A regular on public radio, he was her career, Perez has been a vocal activist for interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on a number of causes and serves as the Artistic NPR, and has appeared on , All Board Chair for Urban Arts Partnership. Perez Things Considered, Studio 360, Bullseye, and details her childhood upbringing and career in her WTF with Marc Maron. He has also been profiled book, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I by and on PBS NewsHour. Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Kondabolu attended both Bowdoin College and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair). Wesleyan University, graduating from the former institution with a BA in comparative politics CARMEN SERRANO and Rosie Perez are half- in 2004. A former immigrant rights organizer sisters. Their dad was a cook in the Merchant in Seattle, he also earned a masters in human Marines. Serrano was born in New York City, but rights from the London School of Economics her dad was wary of a kid growing up in 1970s in 2008. He was NYU’s APA Institute’s Artist New York, so he moved the family to Puerto in Residence for the 2014—15 academic year Rico for her teen years. Like her father, Serrano and was named one of Mic’s 50 most impactful believes cooking is a form of art. She graduated leaders, cultural influencers, and breakthrough from the French Culinary Institute and worked innovators of the next generation. at the Church preparing meals for homeless people. UMA KONDABOLU was born the town of Tenali in the state of Andhra Pradesh in South India. #RadioLoveFest Mar 10—12

BAMCAFÉ LIVE run the gamut from delicate, folk-tinged ballads 9:30pm, BAMcafé to layered, beat-driven electric harp grooves.

TERRANCE MCKNIGHT (BAMcafé Live band RADIOLOVEFEST curator) is the WQXR weekday evening host. CINEMA CURATORS Previously, he also hosted the former Saturday Films screen at 7:30pm, BAM Rose Cinemas evening program, All Ears with Terrance McKnight, a show about musical discovery, March 11, Scream which was honored with an ASCAP Deems Presented by SEAN RAMESWARAM Taylor Radio Broadcast Award in 2010. Like Glenn Gould and Drake, Rameswaram was McKnight’s musical experiences—from born and raised in Toronto where, at a young club soloist and accomplished pianist, to age, he began to cultivate a passion for public professor at Morehouse College, and finally as broadcasting and the arts. He eventually crossed producer and host of several music programs for the continent for the well-manicured suburbs public radio—have consistently juxtaposed the of Los Angeles, where he began to cultivate a European classical tradition alongside American passion for repertory cinema and quesadillas. classic traditions, such as jazz, gospel, African- Rameswaram joined WNYC in 2012 as a American spirituals, and other musical genres. producer for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. In McKnight has hosted and produced several 2014, he created its spinoff podcast, sideshow, audio documentaries for WQXR on subjects such which celebrated mash-up musicians, malt as Langston Hughes, Dr. Martin Luther King, liquor, and animated GIFs. He’s now working Jr., Hazel Scott, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and on a new show that promises to do for art and Florence Beatrice Price. As a speaker, McKnight culture what Serial has done for murder. has worked with Chamber Music America, the Mellon Foundation, American Opera Projects, March 12, A League of Their Own and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among Presented by MOLLY WEBSTER, features others. producer and guest host at WNYC’s Radiolab. Her ability to comprehend and totally immerse March 11 herself in complicated issues has helped PUBLIQuartet, an acclaimed, forward-thinking Radiolab investigate everything from international quartet, has been shaking up the city’s classical surrogacy and metamorphosis, to what happens music scene, emphasizing a repertoire of when you can’t escape your own beating new works by emerging artists. PUBLIQuartet heart. After focusing on biology in college, she showcases daring contemporary pieces and graduated from ’s science original compositions that incorporate jazz, world writing program and began to pursue science music, and electronic influences. Fresh from journalism, reporting and producing for outlets its sold-out debut at Carnegie Hall, it takes the like National Geographic Adventure, Scientific stage at BAMcafé for a genre-busting evening of American, Nature, and Freakonomics Radio, cutting-edge classical music. as well as creating live science conversations at the World Science Festival, where she focused March 12 on the spaces where science converged with The duo ADDI & JACQ was voted “best emerging big ideas. An Ohio native, when she’s not at band in NYC” as winners of the 2015 WNYC Radiolab, you’ll find her outside, staring off into Battle of the Boroughs. Vocalist Addi McDaniel, the distance. who has been praised as “a powerhouse with a brass-plated voice” (), and the “exceptionally virtuosic and sensitive” (Classical Source) harpist Jacqueline Kerrod fuse classical music with an irresistible pop sensibility. For their BAMcafé debut, they perform songs that New York Public Radio

Board of Trustees Cynthia King Vance, Chair Tom Finkelpearl, ex officio Ellen Polaner John S. Rose, Vice Chair Martha J. Fleischman Jonelle Procope Susan Rebell Solomon, Vice Chair MaryAnne Gilmartin Jon W. Rotenstreich Mayo Stuntz, Vice Chair Loretta Brennan Glucksman Joshua Sapan Howard S. Stein, Treasurer Emily Tow Jackson Herb Scannell Alan G. Weiler, Secretary Alan Jenkins Lauren Seikaly Laura R. Walker, President and CEO Julia Kahr Peter Shapiro Jean B. Angell Anton J. Levy Peter Tague Tom A. Bernstein Joanne Banks Matthews Nicki Newman Tanner John Borthwick John McGinn Andrea L. Taylor Richard S. Brail Bethany Millard Wilma S. Tisch Judith M. Carson Gwendolyn Adams Norton Mary White, MD Charles M. Diker Richard A. Pace Bradley A. Whitman

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American Express Company The William & Mary Greve Ruth and Harvey R. Miller Lauren Seikaly and Michael Huber Jean B. and Christopher C. Angell Foundation Mr. Malcolm Mogul and Dr. The Selz Foundation James Attwood and Leslie Williams The Guenther Family Harriette Mogul Silverstein Properties Thomas S. and Patricia Y. Bain The Guilford Fund The Ambrose Monell Foundation Simons Foundation Raymond E. and Lucille P. The Marc Haas Foundation Eleanor and Howard Morgan Marilyn and Jim Simons Benedetto Peter and Beth Hammack Victoria and Stephen Morris Alfred P. Sloan Foundation James and Frances Berger The Healthcare Foundation of Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Smart Family Foundation Steffi and Robert Berne New Jersey National Endowment for the Arts Susan and Peter Solomon Richard and Susan Braddock The Hearst Foundations National Endowment for the The Spektor Family Foundation Richard and Laura Brail Mr. and Mrs. Martin F. Heller Humanities The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Carson Family Charitable Trust Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in National Science Foundation Charitable Trust Charina Endowment Fund the New York Community Trust New York City Department of Theodore Stanley Simona and Jerome A. Chazen Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cultural Affairs Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation Corporation for Public Broadcasting Max Kade Foundation, Inc. The New York Community Trust W. Clement & Jesse V. Stone Judith-Ann Corrente Kaplen Brothers Fund New York State Council on the Arts Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Diker Jane and Gerald Katcher New York State Department of Lise Strickler and Mark Gallogly The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Jeffrey Kenner and Hyunja Laskin Education Elizabeth and Mayo Stuntz Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Pamela P. Kindler Stavros Niarchos Foundation The Geraldine Stutz Trust, Inc. Enoch Foundation John S. and James L. Knight The Overbrook Foundation H. Anna Suh and Ross A. Garon Epstein Teicher Philanthropies Foundation Theodore Petroulas and Nasim Peter and Cheryl Tague Katherine Farley and Jerry Speyer Oliver Kramer Alikhani Nicki and Harold Tanner Martha J. Fleischman Jay B. Langner The Pinkerton Foundation The Thompson Family Foundation, FJC, A Foundation of Donor-Advised Iris & Junming Le Foundation Ellen and Len Polaner Inc. Funds Leir Charitable Foundations Jonelle Procope and Frederick Terrell Tiger Baron Foundation Ford Foundation Katherine Leitch and Terence Richard Ravitch Wilma S. Tisch Sidney E. Frank Foundation Kooyker Charles H. Revson Foundation The Tow Foundation The Fund for New Jersey Anton Levy The Rockefeller Foundation Lee and Cynthia King Vance Diller-von Furstenberg Family Dottie Litwin-Brief and Donald Brief Allie Rogers and Eun Mi Kim The Agnes Varis Charitable Trust Foundation The Reva & David Logan Foundation Elihu and Susan W. Rose Rosalind P. Walter The Gage Fund Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Lubman John and Elizabeth Rose Lulu and Anthony Wang The Howard Gilman Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Mr. and Mrs. Jon Rotenstreich Elaine and Alan G. Weiler MaryAnne Gilmartin Foundation Susie Salomon Kathleen and Seymour Weingarten Loretta Brennan Glucksman Lawrence Maisel and Susan Grant Ann and Richard Sarnoff WETA Robert D. Goldfarb James S. and Ellen F. Marcus Herb Scannell and Sarah Reetz Mary White Becky and Mike Goss The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Scheide Fund Beth and Brad Whitman Eugene and Emily Grant MetLife Foundation Roberta Schneiderman The Winston Foundation The Jerome L. Greene Foundation Bethany and Robert B. Millard The Schumann Fund for New Jersey Wyncote Foundation

New York Public Radio Senior Staff

Laura R. Walker Graham Parker President and CEO General Manager of WQXR and Vice President of NYPR

Dean Cappello Michele Rusnak Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer for WNYC Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance, Administration and Business Affairs John Chao Vice President of Partnerships and New Business Dana Teplitsky Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Thomas Hjelm Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer Peter Weingard Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Margaret Pomeroy Hunt Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer