Join The Moth for a collection of the best "love hurts" stories. Part One of this compilation represents some of the best stories, recorded live, from our Mainstage Series, Stories at The Moth, which is held monthly in New York City and occasionally beyond.Featured storytellers include:
Brian Finkelstein, a writer, comedian, and actor. His show, First Day Off in a Long Time, was selected for the HBO/USCAF in Aspen and named Best in Comedy 2005 by Time Out New York.
Elna Baker, a comedic storyteller and monologist and creator of the solo comedy shows, If You See Something, Say Something (Fringe 2006) and A Mexican-Mormon (LaMama E.T.C. director, Elizabeth Swados).
James Braly, the only two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam. Stories from his show, Life in a Marital Institution, have been featured on NPR, and at the Whitney Museum, the Long Wharf Theater, and the Moth National Tour.
Dina Pearlman, an actress, comedian, and writer living in New York with her husband and their little boy. She's been seen on Sex & the City, Law & Order, and in three Spike Lee movies.
Andrew Solomon, whose last book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the 2001 National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He writes regularly for The New Yorker and The New York Times.
