2016 Winter/Spring Season MAR 2016 Elizabeth Murray, If Only Cup, 1997—98 Published by: Season Sponsor: BAM 2016 Winter/Spring Season #RadioLoveFest Brooklyn Academy of Music New York 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 Edward Snowden—Interviewed by Brian Lehrer, Mar 11, 7:30pm, OH Selected Shorts: Dangers and Discoveries—A Presentation of Symphony Space, Mar 11, 7:30pm, HT Garrison Keillor: 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 Season Sponsor: American Express is the Founding Sponsor of RadioLoveFest. 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 Boston. Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!® is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program hosted by Peter Sagal. MO ROCCA 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 Paula Poundstone, Mo Innovation Nation on CBS, and host and creator Rocca, and Faith Salie. 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 Telemundo, 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.npr.org. Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His book All the Presidents’ Pets PETER SAGAL (host), prior to becoming 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 Entertainment Weekly’s channel on Sirius XM. Chicago 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 BILL KURTIS (judge and scorekeeper), for Michaels to President Carter to Zach Galifianakis. many, was the face, the voice, and the hair 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 Star Trek 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 Nickelodeon’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 The Flaming Lips, 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 Brooklyn. 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. Bill Hader, 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 film version three-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories directed by Spike Lee, and has composed music have been featured on the Moth Radio Hour and for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The This American Life.