On April 18, 2013 at 8PM join Don Cummings, Sarah Fearon, Marian Fontana, Deborah Goldstein, Martin Kleinman, Leah Mitchell, Anya Ulinich and Adam Waring for the Second Annual Funny Pages, an evening of music, mirth and merriment curated by Marian Fontana.
The Old Stone House, 336 Third Street in Park Slope between 5th and 4th Avenues. The $5 suggested donation includes refreshments.
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FUNNY PAGES CURATED BY MARIAN FONTANA
Bios of the performers in order of appearance:
ADAM WARING spent fifteen years as a television writer in Hollywood,
where he served on the writing staffs of Two and a Half Men, Still Standing,
Dharma and Greg, and Married with Children, among others. He is
currently a copy director at Showtime Networks. He is also a tenor in the
New York Choral Society, and hard at work on his first novel about the
perils of giving yourself over to your career in corporate America. He is
proud to share the stage tonight with his husband, Don Cummings.
DON CUMMINGS’ play, A Good Smoke, was a semifinalist for the Eugene
O'Neill theater conference. It had a reading at The Public Theater starring
Meryl Streep and has been optioned for production. The Fat of the
Land was a semifinalist for the Kaufman & Hart Award for new American
comedy. The Winner was a finalist for the Heideman Award at A.T.L. Piss
Play is about Minorities received the Golden Pineapple award for best play
at The Cringe Festival. His short film BOX, is currently screening in
festivals. A graduate of Tufts University and The Neighborhood Playhouse
and a member of the E.S.T. Writers Unit, he also writes essays.
www.doncummings.netwww.opentrench.blogspot.comANYA ULINICH grew up in Moscow, Russia, and immigrated to Arizona
when she was seventeen. She holds an MFA in visual arts from the
University of California, Davis. Her first novel, Petropolis, was published
by Penguin in 2007, and has since been translated into ten
languages. Ulinich's short stories and essays have appeared in The New
York Times, Zoetrope: All-Story, n+1, and PEN America Journal. She has
taught writing at NYU and Gotham Writer's Workshop. Anya is currently
working on a graphic novel, "Magic Barrel By Lena Finkle," which will be
published by Penguin in the summer of 2014. She lives in Brooklyn with her
two daughters.
LEAH GRAY MITCHELL, an accomplished musician,actress and dancer,
was one half of the acclaimed duo, Two Chicks and a Casio, who played
three sold out seasons at the D-Lounge in the Hotel Delmonico. After
releasing their second album, Back2Bitter, they played Joe’s Pub and
numerous venues in New York City and Boston. Jane magazine sponsored
a West coast tour to San Fransisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. She has
performed in numerous film and theater projects and runs her own ballet
school on Staten Island. Leah is graduate of New York City's famed High
School for the Performing Arts and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase.
MARIAN FONTANA’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair,
Salon.com, The Guardian and more. Her memoir, A Widows Walk was
published by Simon and Schuster and was as the Top Ten Great Reads of
2005 by People magazine and the New York Times best selling biography
list and was nominated for a Books for A Better Life Award. Her essays
have appeared in the anthologies Money Changes Everything and The
Time of My Life for Random House and most recently in the Apocalypse for
Sock Monkey Press. She has been featured on This American Life, CNN,
Good Morning America and All Things Considered. She recently
completed her second memoir that was optioned by CBS. Her plays and
one-woman shows have appeared at Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard
Theater, Variety Arts and more. She recently performed stand-up comedy
at Gotham, the Metropolitan Room and other venues. She currently serves
on the board of the New York Writers Coalition. She recently started
ALPHABLOG on her website marianfontana.com
SARAH FEARON is a native New Yorker, graduated from the High School
of Performing Arts in Manhattan and New York University. She has worked
as a stand-up comic, writer/producer, actress, and stunt person. Some
feature film credits include The Departed, Reversal of Fortune, Liebestraum
and Dancing in September. Sarah has done stand-up comedy at Gotham,
Metropolitan Room, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, Stand Up New York
and more. Currently working on a moc-umentary film "The Snazzy Story"
as the cult favorite over the top real estate character Snazzy Peabody.
Snazzy sells the Highline, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State. you name it she
sells it. Snazzy is a collaboration with director Lizzie Donahue, a long time
Park Slope resident.Sarah is a Board Member of the Irish American Writers and Artists, regular at Artists Without Walls and advocate for the clean ocean organization
Mission of Mermaids. Sarah.Fearon@corcoran.com
MARTIN KLEINMAN is New York City story teller. He has captivated
audiences with his tales of real New Yorkers (see:
www.therealnewyorkers.com )in venues from KGB Bar to Brooklyn’s Union
Hall to Boston’s AWP Conference. A native New Yorker, he lived in The
Bronx, Queens and, most recently, Brooklyn for 25 years. In 2010, he
moved atop a mountain in the northwest Bronx, from which he surveys the
full length and breadth of his home town, the world’s greatest metropolis.
Tonight, Kleinman will read from his collection of short fiction, “Home
Front,” which will be published later this spring by Brooklyn’s own Sock
Monkey Press.
DEBORAH GOLDSTEIN is a media sales director turned freelance writer
and blogger. She publishes the humor blog, Peaches & Coconuts and is a
contributing editor for the community website LesbianFamily.com. She has
also participated in spoken word events such as Edgy Suburban Moms,
Listen To Your Mother and BlogHer’s Voices of the Year; not to mention
Staten Island’s renowned Art by The Ferry. Her memoir-in-progress is a
dark comedy entitled, “Dad is Dead. Please Call Me.” Deborah would like
to tell you that she is living every Jewish, gay mom’s dream with her
partner Gabriella in the suburbs of New Jersey. She would like to tell you
that a corporate salary can not compare to the satisfaction of staying at
home with her two boys except that she has to pay for two Bar Mitzvahs, so
she questions her choices every day of her life…except on days like today.
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FUNNY PAGES CURATED BY MARIAN FONTANA
Bios of the performers in order of appearance:
ADAM WARING spent fifteen years as a television writer in Hollywood,
where he served on the writing staffs of Two and a Half Men, Still Standing,
Dharma and Greg, and Married with Children, among others. He is
currently a copy director at Showtime Networks. He is also a tenor in the
New York Choral Society, and hard at work on his first novel about the
perils of giving yourself over to your career in corporate America. He is
proud to share the stage tonight with his husband, Don Cummings.
DON CUMMINGS’ play, A Good Smoke, was a semifinalist for the Eugene
O'Neill theater conference. It had a reading at The Public Theater starring
Meryl Streep and has been optioned for production. The Fat of the
Land was a semifinalist for the Kaufman & Hart Award for new American
comedy. The Winner was a finalist for the Heideman Award at A.T.L. Piss
Play is about Minorities received the Golden Pineapple award for best play
at The Cringe Festival. His short film BOX, is currently screening in
festivals. A graduate of Tufts University and The Neighborhood Playhouse
and a member of the E.S.T. Writers Unit, he also writes essays.
www.doncummings.netwww.opentrench.blogspot.comANYA ULINICH grew up in Moscow, Russia, and immigrated to Arizona
when she was seventeen. She holds an MFA in visual arts from the
University of California, Davis. Her first novel, Petropolis, was published
by Penguin in 2007, and has since been translated into ten
languages. Ulinich's short stories and essays have appeared in The New
York Times, Zoetrope: All-Story, n+1, and PEN America Journal. She has
taught writing at NYU and Gotham Writer's Workshop. Anya is currently
working on a graphic novel, "Magic Barrel By Lena Finkle," which will be
published by Penguin in the summer of 2014. She lives in Brooklyn with her
two daughters.
LEAH GRAY MITCHELL, an accomplished musician,actress and dancer,
was one half of the acclaimed duo, Two Chicks and a Casio, who played
three sold out seasons at the D-Lounge in the Hotel Delmonico. After
releasing their second album, Back2Bitter, they played Joe’s Pub and
numerous venues in New York City and Boston. Jane magazine sponsored
a West coast tour to San Fransisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. She has
performed in numerous film and theater projects and runs her own ballet
school on Staten Island. Leah is graduate of New York City's famed High
School for the Performing Arts and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase.
MARIAN FONTANA’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair,
Salon.com, The Guardian and more. Her memoir, A Widows Walk was
published by Simon and Schuster and was as the Top Ten Great Reads of
2005 by People magazine and the New York Times best selling biography
list and was nominated for a Books for A Better Life Award. Her essays
have appeared in the anthologies Money Changes Everything and The
Time of My Life for Random House and most recently in the Apocalypse for
Sock Monkey Press. She has been featured on This American Life, CNN,
Good Morning America and All Things Considered. She recently
completed her second memoir that was optioned by CBS. Her plays and
one-woman shows have appeared at Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard
Theater, Variety Arts and more. She recently performed stand-up comedy
at Gotham, the Metropolitan Room and other venues. She currently serves
on the board of the New York Writers Coalition. She recently started
ALPHABLOG on her website marianfontana.com
SARAH FEARON is a native New Yorker, graduated from the High School
of Performing Arts in Manhattan and New York University. She has worked
as a stand-up comic, writer/producer, actress, and stunt person. Some
feature film credits include The Departed, Reversal of Fortune, Liebestraum
and Dancing in September. Sarah has done stand-up comedy at Gotham,
Metropolitan Room, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, Stand Up New York
and more. Currently working on a moc-umentary film "The Snazzy Story"
as the cult favorite over the top real estate character Snazzy Peabody.
Snazzy sells the Highline, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State. you name it she
sells it. Snazzy is a collaboration with director Lizzie Donahue, a long time
Park Slope resident.Sarah is a Board Member of the Irish American Writers and Artists, regular at Artists Without Walls and advocate for the clean ocean organization
Mission of Mermaids. Sarah.Fearon@corcoran.com
MARTIN KLEINMAN is New York City story teller. He has captivated
audiences with his tales of real New Yorkers (see:
www.therealnewyorkers.com )in venues from KGB Bar to Brooklyn’s Union
Hall to Boston’s AWP Conference. A native New Yorker, he lived in The
Bronx, Queens and, most recently, Brooklyn for 25 years. In 2010, he
moved atop a mountain in the northwest Bronx, from which he surveys the
full length and breadth of his home town, the world’s greatest metropolis.
Tonight, Kleinman will read from his collection of short fiction, “Home
Front,” which will be published later this spring by Brooklyn’s own Sock
Monkey Press.
DEBORAH GOLDSTEIN is a media sales director turned freelance writer
and blogger. She publishes the humor blog, Peaches & Coconuts and is a
contributing editor for the community website LesbianFamily.com. She has
also participated in spoken word events such as Edgy Suburban Moms,
Listen To Your Mother and BlogHer’s Voices of the Year; not to mention
Staten Island’s renowned Art by The Ferry. Her memoir-in-progress is a
dark comedy entitled, “Dad is Dead. Please Call Me.” Deborah would like
to tell you that she is living every Jewish, gay mom’s dream with her
partner Gabriella in the suburbs of New Jersey. She would like to tell you
that a corporate salary can not compare to the satisfaction of staying at
home with her two boys except that she has to pay for two Bar Mitzvahs, so
she questions her choices every day of her life…except on days like today.
LIKE BROOKLYN READING WORKS ON FACEBOOK
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