THE IDEASMYTH SALON: Stories on Stage • 20 January 2026

THE IDEASMYTH SALON: Stories on Stage • A Storytelling Variety Show hosted by Victoria C. Rowan (Curator • Writer • Coach • Editor • Creative Community Entrepreneur )

FEATURING the following critically acclaimed talent (in alpha order):

⛄️James Braly {The Moth Slam Winner (2X!) • Int'l 14-City Tour • St. Martin's Memoirist} ⛄Taylor Mali {4X National Poetry Slam Winner • Author of 7 Books Including "What Teachers Make" • Game Designer: Metaphor Dice} ⛄Adelaide Mestre {Playwright & Singer "Top Drawer" [Int'l Fringe Festival] • "Husbands & Wives" [Woody Allen Movie] • Voice Coach} ⛄️Jack Pleasants {96k Followers onTikTok • Pete’s Candy Store • Working with U2 & OneRepublic's engineer} ⛄️ Flash Rosenberg {Cartoonist • The Moth Radio Hour • Guggenheim Fellow} ⛄️

NOTE: Actual lineup sequence will follow AGENDA BELOW

🎤 $20 COVER 🍻 $20 DINING MINIMUM (GREAT FULL DINNER + DRINKS MENU) 🥂 SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE ABOUT THE PERFORMERS (LISTED IN LAUNCHING SEQUENCE) 👇

⛄️ Flash Rosenberg • (Comic Monologue)

^Flash Rosenberg draws, photographs, writes, and performs. She had a jolly gig as a Pink Elf for Philadelphia Lord & Taylor's to relay gift wishes from children too terrified to sit on Santa's lap. She performed in "Making Light: A Rabbi & a Humorist Celebrate Hanukkah" at the 14th Street Jewish Y. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, who served as the pioneering Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the NY Public Library, where she drew conversations between authors, artists and provocateurs to create "portraits of ideas" in real-time. Her work will be featured in the 2026 nationally touring exhibit "Citizen Artist" curated by the Delaware Art Museum She is a three-time Mainstage Storyteller for The Moth. Creator of "FlashThink Cartoons." Was voted "Funniest Person in Philadelphia" twice in the 90s by "The City Paper" for her public radio spots, "Flash Moments." She was an Academy Award finalist for her experimental short "Pulse of Desire." She taught "Perception Studies" classes for Cooper Union conducted entirely on the NYC subways. Flash Rosenberg Studio is a full-service art, motion picture, merriment, and mischief factory, based in Harlem. She lives with two turtles and infinite questions.

⛄️ James Braly • "My Father Was A Snowman " (Cold Ballad)

^ James Braly is the first two-time winner of The Moth GrandSlam and has contributed autobiographical stories to This American Life and The New York Times. His Off Broadway monologue Life in a Marital Institution: 20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour was a New York Times Critics Pick. The show spawned a fourteen-city national tour produced by Meredith Vieira Productions, a live audio recording that spent twelve weeks on the Amazon Hot 100 Comedy List, and a memoir published by St. Martins Press. In his other professional life, James ghostwrites speeches and books for executives and entrepreneurs – including a couple bestsellers he’d crow about if he hadn’t signed NDAs.

⛄️ Adelaide Mestre • "I wish it so" (Musical Memoir)

^Adelaide Mestre is an award-winning actress, singer, writer and solo show performer. In her work, she mines the autobiographical material of her childhood and family history, chronicling the trials and tribulations of growing up in an unusual family among artists and other eccentric personalities. She has performed in numerous theatrical productions, musicals, cabarets, and films, including Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives. Adelaide has written and performed several solo shows including: Dead Mosquito at Emerging Artists Theatre's One Woman Standing Festival and Out of Step at Where Eagles Dare Theatre. Her ten-minute play, It’s My Amygdala was produced at the Estrogenius Festival and the SoHo Playhouse. Her full-length musical memoir, Top Drawer premiered in the New York International Fringe Festival and has since enjoyed multiple productions at theatres in New York and cities around the country. In 2017 Adelaide received the Bill Bowers Award of Excellence at the SaraSolo Fesival in Sarasota, Fl and in 2018 performed to sold out shows in Miami at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora. Most recently her show was produced at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor and the Southampton Cultural Center.

⛄️ Jack Pleasants • "Stillpoint Serenade" (New Age Indie Rock)

^Jack Pleasants [Accompanied by Oliver Wendell-Braly]

⛄️ Taylor Mali • "I Thought I Hated Poetry" (Poetry Jam)

^Taylor Mali is a spoken word poet, teacher advocate, and game designer from New York City. His poetry is both accessible and literary, and even though he was once told he was “just like Billy Collins except even worse,” Billy Collins himself calls Taylor Mali a “poet of unique properties whose performances are leavened by charm and wit.” Mali is a four-time National Poetry Slam champion and one of the original poets to appear on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. The author of five collections of poetry and a book of essays on teaching, he is also the inventor of Metaphor Dice, a game that helps writers think more figuratively. He is a 13-generation New Yorker, living in Brooklyn where he is the founding curator of the 20-year-old poetry series Page Meets Stage. Instagram: taylor_mali

⛄️Victoria C. Rowan • Curator + Host

^Victoria C. Rowan: Curator • Writer • Coach • Editor • Creative Community Entrepreneur

Curating + Hosting: NYC: 92nd St. Y • The National Arts Club • Pangea • KGB Red Room, Mediabistro.com Northwestern Connecticut: Spring Hill Arts Gathering/ Vineyards • Judy Black Park Memorial Park & Gardens • The Ideas Depot • The Stone Church + Meetinghouse

Writing: The New York Times • The Financial Times • New York Magazine • Time Out New York + dozens of other domestic and international media outlets

Clients: Support clients as coach, editor, dramaturg; here a partial listing of critically and commercially acclaimed writers + other outstanding creatives