Yum's The Word: Dairy Queens and Kings, featuring R. Eric Thomas, Georgia Clark, Kelli Dunham, and Craig Mangum; hosted by Robin Gelfenbien
Yum's The Word: Dairy Queens and Kings, featuring R. Eric Thomas, Georgia Clark, Kelli Dunham, and Craig Mangum
Hosted by Robin Gelfenbien
7:00pm doors | 7:30pm show | 21+
$15 advance | $20 day of show
About R. Eric Thomas:
R. Eric Thomas is a Barrymore Award-winning playwright, the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia and D.C., and he is a Senior Staff Writer for Elle.com where he writes “Eric Reads the News,” a daily current events and culture column.
He is the recipient of a 2017 National New Play Network commission and is at work on his debut memoir-in-essays, entitled Here For It, which will be published by Ballantine Books in 2019.
He has been published multiple times in The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Man Repeller, as well as Philadelphia Magazine, Newsworks, ThinkingDance, and others.
His play, TIME IS ON OUR SIDE, was commissioned by Simpatico Theater Project and developed with PlayPenn. It was the recipient of two 2016 Barrymore Awards, including Best New Play, and was named one of six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg American Theater Critics Association New Play Award. Of the play, The Philadelphia Inquirer raved, “it’s a superbly crafted two-hour mystery… Thomas creates an entire world with seeming room for all of humanity’s hopes and dreams, foibles and longings.”
Forthcoming: MRS. HARRISON (Azuka Theatre, 2018), the Midwest premiere of TIME IS ON OUR SIDE (About Face Theatre, 2018), INFINITY JONES NEEDS SOME SPACE! (development: Act II Theatre), SAFE SPACE (development: Cohesion Theater Company Playwright’s Fellowship), NIGHTBIRD (development: Interact Theatre Company/NNPN Commission)
Other plays include MIRIAM1234 (Finalist: City Theatre National National Award for Short Playwriting 2017), HUMAN RESOURCES (City Theatre Summer Shorts, 2015, Finalist: 2015 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting, published: City Theatre Anthology 2015), the wordless puppet play FRIEDA THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (developed with Aaron Cromie, FringeArts 2015), WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY IT JUST SOUNDS RIDICULOUS (Finalist: 2014 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting), ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID(Quince Productions).
With over a million social media shares, Eric’s ELLE.com column “Eric Reads the News” has quickly become an online humor staple. Covering pop culture, politics and current events, the column is a sardonic and sassy take on our world. Since its inception, it has been praised by such disparate personalities as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mariah Carey, Maxine Waters, Tamron Hall, and Tituss Burgess.
Eric is an alumnus of The Foundry, a Philadelphia playwrights lab and InterAct Theatre Company’s CORE Playwrights program, he was a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow, and is a member of Baltimore Center Stage’s Playwright’s Collective and the Cohesion Theater Company 2017 Playwright’s Fellowship.
TW: http://twitter.com/oureric
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/georgialouclark/?hl=en
FB: https://www.facebook.com/georgiaclarkauthorpage
About Georgia Clark:
Georgia Clark is the author of The Regulars and The Bucket List (both Simon & Schuster) and the host/founder of the storytelling night, Generation Women. She wrote the YA novels She’s With The Band and Parched, and is currently developing The Regulars as a TV show for E!. A native Australian, she lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and a fridge full of cheese. Georgiaclark.com
TW: http://twitter.com/georgialouclark
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/georgialouclark/?hl=en
FB: https://www.facebook.com/georgiaclarkauthorpage
About Kelli Dunham:
Kelli Dunham is the ex-nun genderqueer RN nerd comic so common in modern Brooklyn. Kelli has performed nationwide at colleges, prides, fundraisers and even the occasional livestock auction. Kelli was nominated as a 2105 White House Champion of Change (NOT under the current administration) for her work as the co-founder and producer of Queer Memoir, NYC's longest-running most super earnest LGBT storytelling event.
Kelli recently helped set the Guiness World Record for longest comedy show (multiple performers) at the Third Coast Comedy Club in Nashville TN, is the author of seven books of humorous nonfiction and is feverishly working on a hilarious nonfiction book about death dying and grief. New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio once called Kelli "a show-off." To her face.
TW, FB & Insta: @kellidunham
About Craig Mangum:
Craig Mangum is a designer and storyteller living in Brooklyn, NY. He has won a Moth GrandSLAM, is a two-time StorySLAM winner, and was featured on the RISK! podcast. He is also the founder and executive director of The OUT Foundation, a philanthropic network for the LGBTQ+ alumni of Brigham Young University. His one man show, "Gay Mormon Testimony Meeting" will be appearing in The New York International Fringe Festival in October 2018.
TW & Insta: @CraigNMangum
About Yum's The Word:
Yum's The Word" is the only show that blends old-school fun with modern-day storytelling. Each month comedic storyteller Robin Gelfenbien hosts this unique event replete with Mad Libs, Pin the Hose on the Fireman and her homemade ice cream cakes.*
Join Robin and some of the country's best storytellers, comedians and writers for a decadent night of stories and treats.
Time Out New York Critics’ Pick
“We love Yum’s the Word”
BonAppetit.com
One of “5 Comedy Shows to Watch”
Time Out New York Comedy
One of “5 Top Storytelling Series in NYC”
CBS New York
One of “5 Best Comedy Shows Hosted by Women in NYC”
CBS New York
*Lactaid pills available at every show. Seriously.
Listen to the Yum's the Word podcast
Refund Policy & Terms of Service: LPR does not issue refunds or exchanges for ticket purchases. All sales are final. No refunds will be processed for unused tickets or for patrons who are denied entry due to not having valid identification for will call pickup or admittance to an age restricted event. Events are subject to change in date, time, reserved seat location or scheduled act at anytime. In the case of an event cancellation, refunds will be provided via the method of payment originally used. Resale of any ticket at a price greater than the original ticket price is absolutely prohibited. We have the right to revoke or reclaim possession of any tickets from the buyer who violates such restrictions.
Yum's The Word: Dairy Queens and Kings, featuring R. Eric Thomas, Georgia Clark, Kelli Dunham, and Craig Mangum
Hosted by Robin Gelfenbien
7:00pm doors | 7:30pm show | 21+
$15 advance | $20 day of show
About R. Eric Thomas:
R. Eric Thomas is a Barrymore Award-winning playwright, the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia and D.C., and he is a Senior Staff Writer for Elle.com where he writes “Eric Reads the News,” a daily current events and culture column.
He is the recipient of a 2017 National New Play Network commission and is at work on his debut memoir-in-essays, entitled Here For It, which will be published by Ballantine Books in 2019.
He has been published multiple times in The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Man Repeller, as well as Philadelphia Magazine, Newsworks, ThinkingDance, and others.
His play, TIME IS ON OUR SIDE, was commissioned by Simpatico Theater Project and developed with PlayPenn. It was the recipient of two 2016 Barrymore Awards, including Best New Play, and was named one of six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg American Theater Critics Association New Play Award. Of the play, The Philadelphia Inquirer raved, “it’s a superbly crafted two-hour mystery… Thomas creates an entire world with seeming room for all of humanity’s hopes and dreams, foibles and longings.”
Forthcoming: MRS. HARRISON (Azuka Theatre, 2018), the Midwest premiere of TIME IS ON OUR SIDE (About Face Theatre, 2018), INFINITY JONES NEEDS SOME SPACE! (development: Act II Theatre), SAFE SPACE (development: Cohesion Theater Company Playwright’s Fellowship), NIGHTBIRD (development: Interact Theatre Company/NNPN Commission)
Other plays include MIRIAM1234 (Finalist: City Theatre National National Award for Short Playwriting 2017), HUMAN RESOURCES (City Theatre Summer Shorts, 2015, Finalist: 2015 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting, published: City Theatre Anthology 2015), the wordless puppet play FRIEDA THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (developed with Aaron Cromie, FringeArts 2015), WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY IT JUST SOUNDS RIDICULOUS (Finalist: 2014 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting), ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID(Quince Productions).
With over a million social media shares, Eric’s ELLE.com column “Eric Reads the News” has quickly become an online humor staple. Covering pop culture, politics and current events, the column is a sardonic and sassy take on our world. Since its inception, it has been praised by such disparate personalities as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mariah Carey, Maxine Waters, Tamron Hall, and Tituss Burgess.
Eric is an alumnus of The Foundry, a Philadelphia playwrights lab and InterAct Theatre Company’s CORE Playwrights program, he was a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow, and is a member of Baltimore Center Stage’s Playwright’s Collective and the Cohesion Theater Company 2017 Playwright’s Fellowship.
TW: http://twitter.com/oureric
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/georgialouclark/?hl=en
FB: https://www.facebook.com/georgiaclarkauthorpage
About Georgia Clark:
Georgia Clark is the author of The Regulars and The Bucket List (both Simon & Schuster) and the host/founder of the storytelling night, Generation Women. She wrote the YA novels She’s With The Band and Parched, and is currently developing The Regulars as a TV show for E!. A native Australian, she lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and a fridge full of cheese. Georgiaclark.com
TW: http://twitter.com/georgialouclark
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/georgialouclark/?hl=en
FB: https://www.facebook.com/georgiaclarkauthorpage
About Kelli Dunham:
Kelli Dunham is the ex-nun genderqueer RN nerd comic so common in modern Brooklyn. Kelli has performed nationwide at colleges, prides, fundraisers and even the occasional livestock auction. Kelli was nominated as a 2105 White House Champion of Change (NOT under the current administration) for her work as the co-founder and producer of Queer Memoir, NYC's longest-running most super earnest LGBT storytelling event.
Kelli recently helped set the Guiness World Record for longest comedy show (multiple performers) at the Third Coast Comedy Club in Nashville TN, is the author of seven books of humorous nonfiction and is feverishly working on a hilarious nonfiction book about death dying and grief. New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio once called Kelli "a show-off." To her face.
TW, FB & Insta: @kellidunham
About Craig Mangum:
Craig Mangum is a designer and storyteller living in Brooklyn, NY. He has won a Moth GrandSLAM, is a two-time StorySLAM winner, and was featured on the RISK! podcast. He is also the founder and executive director of The OUT Foundation, a philanthropic network for the LGBTQ+ alumni of Brigham Young University. His one man show, "Gay Mormon Testimony Meeting" will be appearing in The New York International Fringe Festival in October 2018.
TW & Insta: @CraigNMangum
About Yum's The Word:
Yum's The Word" is the only show that blends old-school fun with modern-day storytelling. Each month comedic storyteller Robin Gelfenbien hosts this unique event replete with Mad Libs, Pin the Hose on the Fireman and her homemade ice cream cakes.*
Join Robin and some of the country's best storytellers, comedians and writers for a decadent night of stories and treats.
Time Out New York Critics’ Pick
“We love Yum’s the Word”
BonAppetit.com
One of “5 Comedy Shows to Watch”
Time Out New York Comedy
One of “5 Top Storytelling Series in NYC”
CBS New York
One of “5 Best Comedy Shows Hosted by Women in NYC”
CBS New York
*Lactaid pills available at every show. Seriously.
Listen to the Yum's the Word podcast
Refund Policy & Terms of Service: LPR does not issue refunds or exchanges for ticket purchases. All sales are final. No refunds will be processed for unused tickets or for patrons who are denied entry due to not having valid identification for will call pickup or admittance to an age restricted event. Events are subject to change in date, time, reserved seat location or scheduled act at anytime. In the case of an event cancellation, refunds will be provided via the method of payment originally used. Resale of any ticket at a price greater than the original ticket price is absolutely prohibited. We have the right to revoke or reclaim possession of any tickets from the buyer who violates such restrictions.