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The Moth Comes to the Tabernacle on Martha's Vineyard on Saturday, August 9th

WCAI is proud to host the return of The Moth to Martha's Vineyard this summer. Join us for an evening of true stories told live, on the theme of "Great Expectations." It's Saturday, August 9th, at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. Show starts at 7:30pm. 

Ticket information is here.

Our host:

Ophira Eisenberg is a comedian, writer, and host of NPR’s weekly comedy trivia show, Ask Me Another. Selected as one of New York Magazine's "Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny," and featured in the New York Times as a skilled comedian and storyteller with a “bleakly stylish” sense of humor, Ophira has also appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central, The Today Show and more. Her debut memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, was recently optioned for a feature film with Zucker Productions. She is a regular host and teller with The Moth. 

Our Storytellers:

Arthur Bradford is an O. Henry Award-winning writer and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. He is the author of the books Dogwalker and Benny’s Brigade and his newest book, Turtleface, will be published by FSG in February 2015. He served as co-director of Camp Jabberwocky on Martha’s Vineyard for seven years. As a counselor at the camp, he created and developed the acclaimed How's Your News? documentary series which features a team of news reporters with mental disabilities who conduct spontaneous interviews with strangers and celebrities. The series has been broadcast on HBO, PBS, and MTV. Bradford also directed the Emmy-nominated documentary, Six Days to Air, about the making of South Park for Comedy Central, and he is currently shooting a feature documentary about Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park and The Book of Mormon. A two-time Moth StorySLAM and GrandSLAM winner, Bradford lives in Portland, Oregon where he works with incarcerated youth. 

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist who began her career as a reporter for The New Yorker and the New York Times, and went on to work as a correspondent and bureau chief for NPR and CNN. She has been awarded two Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards—one for her work on Apartheid's People, a NewsHour series about South African life during apartheid, and the other for general coverage of Africa in 1998. She has received awards from Amnesty International for her Human Rights reporting and in 2005 was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. Hunter-Gault holds some three dozen honorary degrees and is on the board of The Carter Center, The Committee to Protect Journalists, the Peabody Awards, the Johannesburg-based Taco Kuiper Awards for Investigative Journalism and is vice-president of the Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation. Currently a freelance journalist and author, Hunter-Gault has written for numerous publications and is the author of In My Place, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance and To The Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil rights Movement, for young readers. Her latest venture with her husband, businessman Ronald Gault, is producing wine from South Africa under the label Passages. She has two adult children: Suesan, an artist, and Chuma, an actor. 

 

Mary Lou Piland is a wife and mother who moved to Martha’s Vineyard eight years ago with her husband Anthony. Together they have three young men, Anthony (21), Michael (19), and Marcanthony (18), who never fail in keeping her busy. Currently, she is employed at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and recently received her Bachelor’s degree from Charter Oak College. Mary Lou is also part of the Wednesday night writers group held at the house of author Cynthia Riggs and is currently working on finishing her first book, Spumoni. 

 

Arnie Reisman has been an award-winning writer, producer and performer for several decades, in commercial and public television, radio, corporate video, publications, theatre and film. At present he writes a column, The Washashore Chronicles, for The Vineyard Gazette on Martha’s Vineyard. Since the inception of the series in 1996, he has been a regular panelist on NPR's Says You!, the weekly comedy quiz show airing in more than 120 markets, sitting next to his wife, Paula Lyons, former national consumer reporter. In 2009, with Ann Carol Grossman, he produced for PBS The Powder & the Glory, the award-winning film focusing on the business rivalry and cultural influences of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. PBS has broadcast the film every March for Women’s History Month. His national telecasts include Hollywood On Trial (Oscar-nominated documentary on the blacklist), The Other Side of the Moon (a PBS special for the 20th anniversary of the lunar landing) and PBS's AIDS Quarterly with Peter Jennings. He worked as a writer-producer for both WCVB and WGBH in Boston. He was also the executive editor of the news weekly, Boston After Dark (now the late Boston Phoenix), and serves as the chair of the annual Bill of Rights Dinner for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. The rest of his time, he writes plays and poems.

Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, which has been translated into 40 languages, is forthcoming as a feature film from Fox 2000, and was Time Magazine’s 2011 “Thing of the Year.”  His latest novel, Rage is Back, was named a Best Book of 2013 by NPR and the San Francisco Chronicle and is currently being adapted for the stage; his previous novels include the California Book Award-winning The End of the Jews and the cult classic Angry Black White Boy, taught at more than eighty schools. Mansbach is the recipient of a Reed Award, a Webby Award, and a Gold Pollie from the American Association of Political Consultants for his 2012 campaign video “Wake The Fuck Up,” starring Samuel L. Jackson.  He was the 2009-11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow, and a 2013 Berkeley Repertory Theater Writing Fellow, and will be the 2014 Artist in Residence at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, Salon.com, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.  He is currently adapting the children’s classic The Pushcart War for Park Pictures. His debut thriller, The Dead Run, has just been published by HarperVoyager; a sequel is forthcoming, as is a middle grades series from Hyperion, co-written with Alan Zweibel and entitled Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in my Ass.  He lives in Berkeley, California.