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episode 26 (read plot)
Lee Berman (spinglish)
Lee Berman (heblish)
Lee Berman (fringlish)
Lee Berman (english)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 25
(read plot)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 24
(read plot)
Brad Lawrence (prose)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Leeore Schnairsohn (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 23
(read plot)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 22
(read plot)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 21
(read plot)
Lee Berman (hébrais)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 20
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 19
(read plot)
Lee Berman (zarfabrit)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 18
(read plot)
Lee Berman (engrit)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 17
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Brad Lawrence (prose + video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 16
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 15
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Sherri Eldin (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Jim O'Grady (video)
Ari Stophanes (prose)
Matt Sachs (verse)
Katherine Wessling (video)
Steve Zimmer (video)

episode 14
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 13
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Brad Lawrence (prose + video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 12
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Carolos Diamond (comic strip)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)
Julietta Wino (video)

episode 11
(read plot)
Lee Berman (englés)
Lee Berman (spinglish)
The BTK Band (video)
Miriam Jacobson (prose)
Brad Lawrence (prose and video)
Daniel Levin Becker (prose)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 10
(read plot)

Lee Berman (englais)
The BTK Band (video)
Anne-Marie Jackson (pattern poem)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)


episode 9 (read plot)
Lee Berman (heblish)
The BTK Band (video)
Ophélie Darses (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Roni Levit (image)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 8
(read plot)
Samadar Ben-David (video)
Lee Berman (fringlish)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Eitan Lieberman (video)
David Rando (prepared Rubik's Cube)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 7
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Vanessa Quintanilla (video)
Emmanuel Rodriguez (video)
Ari Stophanes (prose)
Leib Teierman (prose)


episode 6 (read plot)
Didier Bedet (video)
The BTK Band (video)
Marie Daillancourt (video)
Mónica Espina (video)
Miriam Jacobson (play)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Maëlle Lenoir (video)
François Raffinot (video)
Emmanuel Rodriguez (video)
Vincent Sterne (video)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 5
(read plot)
Lee Berman (poem)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 4
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Ann Buechner (poem)
Carlos Diamond (comic strip)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)

episode 3
(read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Ari Stophanes (prose)
Katherine Wessling (video)


episode 2 (read plot)
The BTK Band (video)

Sherri Eldin (video)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Brooks Reeves (comic strip)
Ari Stophanes (prose)


episode 1 (read plot)
The BTK Band (video)
Sherri Eldin (song)

Octavian Esanu (image)
Maria Layus (animation)
Brian Lemarié (prose)
Brooks Reeves (recipe)
Ravi Shankar (verse)
Ari Stophanes (prose)
Katherine Wessling (video)





players



editorial committee

Lee Berman Lee Berman, editor Lindsay Edgecombe Lindsay Edgecombe Matthew Saks Matt Sachs
Fred Ciporen Fred Ciporen Miriam Jacobson Miriam Jacobson Laura Silver Laura Silver
Yossi Goldlust Yossi Goldlust Mara Layus Maria Layus Katherine Wessling Katherine Wessling
  Brian Lemarié Brian Lemarié  


 
plotters
performers
 
     
 
Brian Lemariéepisode 26
Brian Lemarié is half English, half French. His recent fiction has appeared in the Massachusetts Review.
 

Frieda Klotz
episode 25
Frida Klotz spent ten years studying Greek before she decided to become a journalist. She lives in Brooklyn, and her book on Plutarch will be published next year by Oxford University Press.
 

Steve Zimmer
episode 24
Steve Zimmer is a storyteller based in New York City. He is the winner of multiple Moth StorySLAMs and GrandSLAMs.
 

Tal Michael - טל מיכאל
episode 23
Tal Michael, the mother of the little girl representing Didi in our characters page, is a writer and filmmaker.
 

Sheri Eldin
Episode 22
Sherri Eldin is an actress, model, and singer-songwriter. She has told stories at Moth storySLAMs and the Liar Show. See and hear more of her.
 

Michael Titipuchal
Episode 21
Michael Titipuchal was born in Texas, and lived there for a time before leaving for good. Now he lives in Mexico with his ex-wife's ex-dog, Lupita.
 

Miriam Jacobson
episode 20
Miriam Jacobson teaches English at the University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from The University of Pennsylvania.
 

Rory Scholl
episode 19
Rory Scholl rocks people's faces off as lead guitarist for The BTK Band when he is not touring as an improv comic.
 

Kate Malone
episode 18
Kate Malone is a schoolteacher with a background in film and fine arts who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She writes stories for children and blogs about travel, art and Buddhist studies.
 

Samuel Frederick
episode 17
Samuel Frederick is Assistant Professor of German at Clemson University.
 

Daniel Levin Becker
episode 16
Daniel Levin Becker is the youngest member of the Oulipo and an accomplished photographer of arguably interesting surfaces. He lives in San Francisco.
 

Roni Levit
Episode 15
Roni Levit is a graphic artist, a graduate of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She has a weekly column, Hamispar hanosaf, in Globes, and is the author of Atlas Israel.
 

Jeff Scherer
Episode 14
Jeff Scherer plays mandolin with The BTK Band, regulars on UpRightDown. He is a writer, designer, comedian, and corporate marketing tool..
 

Brad Lawrence
Episode 13
Brad Lawrence is a writer, storyteller, burlesque performer, and occasional superhero based in Brooklyn.
 

Matt Sachs
Episode 12
Matt Sachs lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he writes poems, essays, and plays. He was educated at Vassar College and Princeton University.
 

David Rando
Episode 11
A (Rubik's) Cubist, David Rando is also an assistant professor of English at Trinity University.
 

Maëlle Lenoir
episode 10
Maëlle Lenoir works for a French NGO that helps outer-city children of promise gain access to higher education.
 

Miriam Jacobson
episode 9
Miriam Jacobson teaches English at the University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from The University of Pennsylvania.
 

Stephanie Schacht
episode 8
Stephanie Schacht is a graduate student in Sociology at Princeton University.
 

Cécile Saint-Paul
episode 7
Cécile Saint-Paul works with Compagnie Les endimanchés as artistic producer, and actress. She has appeared in Woyzeck, Sunday Clothes, and many other plays. Her super-8 films have been screened at Centre Pompidou and Cinéma la clef.
 

Adam Molho
episode 6
Adam Molho was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. He lives in Paris, and invites you to crash on his couch.
 

Peter Aguero
episode 5
Peter Aguero was born and raised in South Jersey. He is a Moth Grandslam Champion and instructor for The Moth's Outreach Program. Peter loves his mom.
 

Yahav Michael
episode 4
Yahav Michael is a storyteller and inventor. He is the author, with his wife Tal, of the forthcoming children's book The Laughing Man from Carmel Press.
 

Ian Monk
episode 3
Ian Monk is a member of the OuLiPo. He is the author of Writings for the Oulipo, Plouk Town, et cetera. His translations of George Perec appeared in Three by Perec.
 

Rania Salem
episode 2
Rania Salem is a graduate student in Sociology at Princeton University.
 

Lee Berman
episode 1
Lee Berman is the editor of uprightdown. He has written three unpublishable novels, and is currently working on a fourth.
 
Didier Bedet
Didier Bedet is a photographer and actor. He has appeared, most recently, in La cantatrice Chauve, Du vent dans les branches de Sassafras, L'atelier, and Médée.
 


Samadar Ben-David studied at Nissan Nattiv Acting Studio, Jerusalem. She is a member of Yiddishpiel Theater and has recently appeared on The Lior Schlein Show.
 

Lee Berman
Lee Berman is the editor of uprightdown. He has written three unpublishable novels, and is currently working on a fourth.
 

BTK
The BTK Band is New York's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band: Peter Aguero (Lead Vocals), Rory Scholl (Guitar), Ian Dunn (Guitar), Margot Bercy (Percussion), Jeff Scherer (Mandolin, Melodica), Eric March (Piano), Daniela Schiller (Drums), Elizabeth Blue (Flute, Mandolin). Watch some of their antics.
 

Ann Buechner
Ann Buechner was born in South Korea, and she grew up in Madison, WI. She earned her MFA from Cornell University in 2004. Her poems have appeared in URD, Barrelhouse, Equilibrium, and The Madison Review. She lives in Busan, South Korea. Hair scares her.
 

Marie Daillancourt
Marie Daillancourt graduated from business school but is looking for a new direction. She is a co-founder of the theater troupe La Dix Compagnie.
 

Ophélie Darses
Ophélie Darses hisse âne agronomie que haine de jaunir. Chie vole honte ire sa ta Freine te je Haine de J.O. date elle pesa août heure site y te Jules de reine gaine accès se tue ail heure aide eu quai chions.
 

Carlos Diamond
Carlos Diamond has abandoned fiction and animation in favor of comic stripping. His fiction has appeared in various small publications around the world, notably The Rabelaisian.
 

Sheri Eldin
Sherri Eldin is an actress, model, and singer-songwriter. She has told stories at Moth storySLAMs and the Liar Show. See and hear more of her.
 

Octavian Esanu
Octavian Esanu directed the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, and has published and exhibited in several countries. He is temporarily based in Princeton, New Jersey.
 

Mónica Espina
Mónica Espina is an Argentine-born theater director living in Paris. She is the founder and director of Quebracho Théâtre. Her work is centered around a multidisciplinary search for new theatrical forms.
 

Anne-Marie Jackson
Anne-Marie Jackson is a DPhil student in English at Oxford University.
 

Miriam Jacobson
Miriam Jacobson teaches English at the University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from The University of Pennsylvania.
 

Brad Lawrence
Brad Lawrence is a writer, storyteller, burlesque performer, and occasional superhero based in Brooklyn.
 

Maria Layus
Maria Layus is an animator, graphic and web designer, and illustrator based in New York.
 

Brian Lemarié
Brian Lemarié is half English, half French. His recent fiction has appeared in the Massachusetts Review.
 

Daniel Levin Becker
Daniel Levin Becker is the youngest member of the Oulipo and an accomplished photographer of arguably interesting surfaces. He lives in San Francisco.
 

Maëlle Lenoir
Maëlle Lenoir works for a French NGO that helps outer-city children of promise gain access to higher education.
 

Roni Levit
Roni Levit is a graphic artist, a graduate of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She has a weekly column, Hamispar hanosaf, in Globes, and is the author of Atlas Israel.
 

Eitan Lieberman
Eitan Lieberman is a musican and music therapist. He teaches children with mental disabilities at Shaked Waldorf School in Tivon, Israel.
 

Jim O'Grady
Jim O'Grady was a longtime reporter for The City section of The New York Times. He tells stories at The Moth.
 

Vanessa Quintanilla
Vanessa Quintanilla is a Mexican artist. Her work is currently on display at the Mexican Women's Museum.  She participated in the Festival de miniMETRAJES.
 

François Raffinot
François Raffinot is a choreographer currently working in Paris. He as served as director of various dance companies and centers, including Ris t Danceries and the Choreography Department at of Ircam-Centre Georges Pompidou.
 

David Rando
A (Rubik's) Cubist, David Rando is also an assistant professor of English at Trinity University.
 

Brooks Reeves
Brooks Reeves is a writer living in Wyoming. He is the author of The City That Cried Wolf, among other things.
 

Emmanuel Rodriguez
Emmanuel Rodriguez doesn't like working in that little office at the Ministiry of _____, and he spends all his spare time making stupid videos.
 

Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar is associate professor of English at CCSU and founding editor of Drunken Boat. He has published a book of poems, Instrumentality, and co-edited Language for a New Century. Listen to some of his poems.
 

Leeore Schnairsohn
Leeore Schnairsohn is a fiction writer, translator, and Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Princeton University.
 

Ari Stophanes
Ari Stophanes is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature. His recent fiction has appeared in Hameorer.
 

Leib Teierman
Leib Teierman voint in New York, vu er lernt zikh yiddishe geshikhte un literatur. Er hot aroysgegeben tsvei bikher, Der Nisters Milkhome un Der Birgerkrig tvishn Pinkhus un Kahanovitch.
 

Julietta Wino
Julietta Wino is a storyteller. You can see her at Moth storyslams and grandslams, the Liar Show, Risk!, and other storytelling venues.
 

Katherine Wessling
Katherine Wessling is a writer and actor. Her essays have appeared in the anthology Have I Got a Guy for You, in Speak and Swing magazines, and on Morning Edition.
 

Steve Zimmer
Steve Zimmer is a storyteller based in New York City. He is the winner of multiple Moth StorySLAMs and GrandSLAMs.
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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