Writer, Educator, and Storyteller
Less than one month out from our No, YOU Tell It! “Passage” show produced in partnership with Culture Lab LIC and New Women New Yorkers! Next week we start workshopping the stories and we can’t be more excited.
The show is FREE but please RSVP HERE.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2026 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program) grant.
What an unforgettable No, YOU Tell It! “Hell Gate” show!! Thank you to everyone for such an amazing evening of Hell Gate Bridge history, storytelling, art, poetry, and music.
Visit the show program here. Photo credit: Yui Kitamura
Podcast episodes featuring the live story swaps coming in October!
Follow @noyoutellit and subscribe to the No, YOU Tell It! podcast on your preferred platform.
Special thank you to:
~Our storytellers, Alicia, Jackie, Mia, and Ashley, for sharing such beautiful stories and giving incredible performances.
~Everyone who came out to see the show!
~Grove 34 for the space to have such a special evening.
~Ashley, for creating your Hell Gate-inspired art and music to inspire us all.
~Greater Astoria Historical Society for teaching us so much about the history of Hell Gate and our neighborhoods.
~Bob Singleton for his poetry and insights into the history of Astoria.
~Natalia ‘Saw Lady’ Paruz for her special, beautiful *birthday* performance.
~Brooklyn Book Festival for including us as a Bookend Event once again.
~Flushing Town Hall, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts for making this possible.
~Our amazing creative team, Erika, Kelly Jean, Chenda, and Tim, for everything to make this possible.
Stay tuned for more photos and clips from the show and to hear what we’re up to next season.
In the meantime, check out the full list of #bkbf Bookend Events and the main festival this weekend!
TONIGHT! Our Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event is ON.
Come hear these No, YOU Tell It! “Defiant” storytellers swap tales at Culture Lab NYC in Gallery B.
Doors open at 6:30 and the show starts at 7! Proof of vaccination is required.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2021 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT.
Our Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event is in two weeks! We’re teaming up with Lambda Literary again for a night of queer storytelling with a twist.
The four curated storytellers are working together to develop their true tales inspired by the theme “Defiant” on the page.
Come out to Culture Lab in Long Island City on 9/28 at 7 pm and watch as they swap and present each other’s stories on stage. Plus, literary prizes from The Astoria Bookshop!
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2021 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.
As Pride month comes to a close, I’m thrilled to announce that our next No, YOU Tell It! show is another team-up with Lambda Literary.
More information soon about No, YOU Tell It! “Defiant” coming in September as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival and produced in partnership with Lambda Literary and The Astoria Bookshop!
Honored to have spent the last couple of weeks with these fantastic storytellers as we worked together to developed their true-life tales inspired by the theme “Coming & Going” on the page.
Join us tonight at 7:30 as they trade tales and take the virtual stage to tell each other’s stories.
Click here for show program and all the info on how to join us via Zoom!
Poets and stand-ups have developed their nonfiction stories inspired by the theme “aMuse” on the page. Join us TONIGHT as they trade true tales on stage!
Thrilled to be producing No, YOU Tell It! “aMuse” at The Astoria Bookshop. THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2019 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT.
Save the date: 9/17 at 7 pm. Poets & stand-ups trading true tales!!