2014 Winter/Spring Season JUN 2014 Bill Beckley, I’m Prancin, 2013, Cibachrome photograph, 72”x48” Published by: BAM 2014 Winter/Spring Sponsor: BAM 2014 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 Karen Brooks Hopkins, 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 Jun 4—8 LIVE PERFORMANCES VENUE KEY Radiolab® Trusts No One, Jun 4, 7:30pm, OH BC=BAMcafé Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!®, Jun 5, 7:30pm, OH BRC=BAM Rose Cinemas Voices Carry: Stories of Inside Frequencies FB=Fisher Building HT=BAM Harvey Theater The Moth, Jun 5, 8pm, BC OH=BAM Howard Gilman Ask Me Another®, Jun 6, 7:30pm, OH Opera House Studio 360® with Kurt Andersen, Jun 6, 7:30pm, HT This American Life: One Night Only at BAM, Jun 7, 7:30pm & 10pm, OH Soundcheck®, Jun 7, 7:30pm, HT Sunday in New York with Jonathan Schwartz, Jun 8, 3pm, HT SCREENINGS Stop Making Sense, curated by Brian Lehrer With guest Jonathan Demme | Jun 4, 7:30pm, BRC The Princess Bride, curated by Brooke Gladstone Intro by Brooke Gladstone | Jun 8, 7:30pm, BRC BAMCAFÉ LIVE Curated by Terrance McKnight Villalobos Brothers, hosted by Helga Davis Jun 6, 9pm—free, BC BROWN RICE FAMILY, hosted by Terrance McKnight Lead support for RadioLoveFest provided by Jun 7, 9pm—free, BC American Express Delta Air Lines StoryCorps listening station | Jun 5—8, FB DeWitt Stern Major support for RadioLoveFest provided by Talk: Dave Isay with guest Scott Simon Charles & Valerie Diker and Jun 8, 1pm | FB Santander RadioLoveFest Jun 4 RADIOLAB® TRUSTS NO ONE Jun 4, 7:30pm, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House RADIOLAB® is WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning cult sensation about wonder, discovery, and big ideas. Co-hosted by Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad, the show tackles topics as diverse as why Kenyans win marathons, what is time, and why left-handedness persists. Radiolab® podcasts are downloaded over four million times each month and the program is carried on 470 stations across the nation. Airs Thursdays at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, and Saturdays at noon on WNYC 93.9 FM and 6pm on WNYC AM 820. For more information visit radiolab.org. JAD ABUMRAD, the son of a scientist and a ROBERT KRULWICH, in addition to co-hosting doctor, did most of his growing up in Tennes- Radiolab, reports for National Public Radio. see, before studying creative writing and music Krulwich Wonders is his NPR blog featuring composition at Oberlin. Following graduation, he drawings, cartoons, and videos that illustrate wrote music for films and reported and produced hard-to-see concepts in science. For 22 years, documentaries for local and national public radio Krulwich was a science, economics, general as- programs, including On the Media, Studio 360 signment, and foreign correspondent at ABC and with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things CBS News. His specialty is explaining complex Considered, and WNYC’s “24 Hours at the Edge subjects, science, technology, economics, in a of Ground Zero.” While on staff at WNYC, Abum- style that is clear, compelling, and entertaining. rad conceived of one of public radio’s most popu- On television he explored the structure of DNA lar shows—Radiolab, for which he is a co-host using a banana; on radio he created an Italian and producer. The program won the prestigious opera, “Ratto Interesso,” to explain how the George Foster Peabody Award and explores big Federal Reserve regulates interest rates; he also questions in science, philosophy, and mankind. pioneered the use of new animation on ABC’s Under Abumrad’s direction, the show uses a Nightline and World News Tonight. He has won combination of deep-dive journalism, narra- Emmy awards for a cultural history of Barbie, tive storytelling, dialogue, and music to explore for a Frontline investigation of computers and and discover. Abumrad was a 2011 MacArthur privacy, a George Polk and an Emmy for a look at Fellow; he also produced and hosted “The Ring the Savings & Loan bailout, and the 2010 Essay & I,” an insightful look at the enduring power Prize from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Krulwich of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. It aired nationally and also won the AAAS Science Journalism Award internationally and earned 10 awards, including for a 2001 a NOVA Special, “Cracking the Code the prestigious 2005 National Headliner Grand of Life”; the Extraordinary Communicator Award Award in Radio. from the National Cancer Institute; and an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award. Krulwich earned a BA in history from Oberlin College, and a law degree from Columbia University. RadioLoveFest Jun 5 WAIT WAIT... DON’T TELL ME!® NPR® Jun 5, 7:30pm, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!® is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program hosted by Peter Sagal. Panelists for this edition include comics, pundits and pop culture pros Peter Grosz, Jessi Klein, and Mo Rocca. Along with Sagal, they test listeners’ knowledge by deducing what’s real news and what’s made up. Airs Saturdays at 11am on WNYC 93.9 FM and WNYC AM 820 and Sundays at 4pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For more information visit waitwait.npr.org. PETER SAGAL (host), prior to becoming host of JESSI KLEIN is a New York City native and Wait Wait in 1998, had a varied career including writer/comedian who is currently the head stints as a playwright, screenwriter, stage writer and an executive producer of Inside Amy director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, Schumer on Comedy Central. She has also travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter, and staff written for Saturday Night Live. In 2010 she writer for a motorcycle magazine. He lives in the taped her first half-hour stand-up special for Chicago area with his family, and is working on Comedy Central. Despite her diverse comedy a book titled The Big Book of Vices, about how experience, she is still overwhelmed by writing people—other people, of course—misbehave. bios and hates referring to herself in the third Since he now has his own Web site, he is finally person, so I’m switching to first right now. a real boy. There, that’s better. I’m currently working on my first book, to be published by Grand Central PETER GROSZ has been performing Publishing. Depending on how tonight goes, you improvisation and sketch comedy since 1995. might be interested in following me on Twitter He is an alum of the Second City’s ETC stage; where I am @jessirklein. a founding member of the Improv Olympic ensembles Preponderate, JTS Brown, and Four MO ROCCA is a contributor to CBS Sunday Square, and improvised with Asssscat at the Morning with Charles Osgood and the host UCB theater in New York. Grosz has appeared of The Tomorrow Show with Mo Rocca on in the films The Weatherman, Stranger than CBSNews.com. He has appeared on most every Fiction, and The Promotion, and has written for cable network, including Telemundo, where The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show and The he wowed audiences in a small but pivotal Colbert Report. If you’re craving a burger when role in the hit telenovela Amor Descarado. He you hear his voice it’s because he also co-starred appeared on Broadway in The 25th Annual with TJ Jagodowski in a bunch of commercials Putnam County Spelling Bee. His book, All The for Sonic drive-in restaurants. Presidents’ Pets, blows the lid off the White House’s deepest, darkest secrets. RadioLoveFest Jun 5 VOICES CARRY: STORIES OF INSIDE FREQUENCIES THE MOTH RADIO HOUR LIVE Jun 5, 8pm, BAMcafé THE MOTH, since its launch in 1997, has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Its programs are renowned for the wide range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it in often unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience. For RadioLoveFest, The Moth presents Voices Carry: Stories of Inside Frequencies which will focus on stories from the world of public radio. Steve Burns hosts guests poet and performer Al Letson and actress Cristin Milioti. Airs Wednesdays at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, Saturdays at 2pm on WNYC 93.9 FM and 7pm on WNYC AM 820. For more information visit themoth.org. STEVE BURNS (host) is best known for playing for Black History Month. Produced by the Public Steve on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues from Radio Exchange and distributed by NPR, State 1996—2002. Since then, he has hosted and of the Re:Union travels to an American town to told stories for The Moth, released a rock record discover things people do to create community for grown-ups that received pretty good reviews, and transcend their circumstances, focusing on toured with The Flaming Lips, made an album vital cultural narratives. Letson also works as a of music for children, and appeared in strange professional playwright and actor. Drawing on plays, mostly in Brooklyn. his background as a performance poet, Letson seamlessly weaves spoken word into the fabric AL LETSON’s soul-stirring, interdisciplinary work of his theater work.