The Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight Storytelling series comes to the Poetry Barn with tales of movin’ on. Featuring Michael Shaieb, Doug Stoley, Kristina Mercer, Katie Von Schleicher, and Paul Boocock. Hosted by Beth Lisick. Music by Eli Crews. Doors at 7 pm, show at 7:30 pm. By Donation.
Michael Shaieb is an author, composer, and arranger. Stage: book/music/lyrics for the choral oratorios "Through A Glass, Darkly", "Alexander's House", and "Out Of My Range (and Other Age-Related Performance Issues)" and music/lyrics for "Go-Go Beach". Film scores: “Decay”, "Last Days of Left Eye" (VH1 Rock Docs), and "Come Back Anytime”. Selected choral: “The Kushner Trilogy” and "Quiet No More", commissioned for the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. Upcoming: debut novel “The Green Barn” and a stage adaptation of “Go Ask Alice” with collaborator John Wimbs. Michael was born in Detroit and graduated from NYU Tisch with an MFA in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing. fatlab.com/michael
Doug Stoley is a musician, director and goofy actor originally from Villa Park, Il, a half hour west of Chicago. Stoley has been a mass-market morning radio DJ on Q101 in Chicago, an RCA Records recording artist with music featured on the Dumb and Dumber Soundtrack, a regular performer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, a featured improviser with the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre, an artist and animator with work featured on At Home with Amy Sedaris on Tru Tv, and a director of creative audio for TV, live productions, and numerous award-winning advertising campaigns. He also loves cats.
Boocock was in the original cast of several Elevator Repair Service shows, is a New York Innovative Theatre award-nominated monologist and was half of cult comedy-duo PREMIUM BOB. He has been in plays written by Christina Masciotti and directed by Jim Simpson, David Herskovits, Kristin Marting and Ben Williams. Film & TV work include: Hal Hartley's 'Henry Fool Trilogy', SYFY's 'Arachnoquake' and ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent.’ He co-founded writers collective Verbal Supply Company and is a contributing writer to Krautkrämer's MeatWater™ Manifesto. Boocock is the voice of Jonas Venture Sr. and others on Adult Swim’s ‘Venture Bros.’
Kristina Mercer is a Catskills-based screenwriter and compulsive joke yapper. She also assists in both script coverage and project marketing where needed, and is sometimes a student-teacher for various Zoom writers' groups. Hopefully one day AI will commandeer all of the above, so she can fully commit to petting dogs. In the meantime, she is bringing shame back to the internet and hosting Night Mic, a standup mic at Nightswim Kingston. She has never taken a leap in her life.
Katie von Schleicher is a musician, engineer & producer living in Brooklyn, NY. About her latest record, “A Little Touch of Schleicher In The Night” Pitchfork said, “…she makes being a loser sound lush, teetering between cheeky, aggressively charming pop and dreamy balladry.” As an engineer and producer, she has worked with a number of bands and solo artists including Cassandra Jenkins, Moon Mullins, Lady Lamb, and the band she currently plays in, Frankie Cosmos. Katie interviewed the late producer Steve Albini for Talkhouse and provided commentary on the audio tour for the Paul McCartney photo exhibit “Eyes of the Storm’ at the Brooklyn Museum. Top obsessions include Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and her parakeet Ursula.
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