Storytellers | How to Build a Fire: Hubris

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STORYTELLERS:

BETH STILLMAN:
Bess Stillman is a writer and doctor. You can read her online at BessStillman.com

JULIE WERNAU:
Julie likes to stand at desks and sit at bars and once bruised herself in a tomato fight. She doesn’t like when writers write fiction novels in which the main character is a writer and has been smoking cigarettes lately for some damn reason. She expects one day she’ll be a rockstar but doesn’t play a musical instrument. And prefers lunch to breakfast.
She writes about emerging markets and commodities at The Wall Street Journalin New York, covering everything from bullish investors in Brazil and hidden debt in Mozambique, to 9-year-old coffee and Ghana’s paltry cocoa crop. Before coming to the Journal she was the energy and green technology reporter at the Chicago Tribune.

DONNA BAILEY:
Donna Bailey was a professional actor for 25 years, starting her career in 1980. She has worked on stage, in Off, Off Broadway, Off Broadway and in regional theatres, earning her Actors Equity card in 1981. Her work in film includes Spike Lee’s Joe’s Bed Stuy Barbershop and Street Smart with Morgan Freeman and Christopher Reeve. Starting in 1990, Donna worked as a voice actor, performing in commercials for Jergens, Astra Zeneca, Metro Plus, Jello and many others. She also recorded promos for Lifetime Television, Bravo and Showtime.

As a solo artist, Donna has told stories that explore the human condition at Dixon Place, Cornelia St. Cafe, The Players Club, P.S. 122, Nyurican Poets Café, Real Characters, The Bronx Museum, The Hudson Valley Storytelling Festival, Rockland Center for the Arts, Rimes of the Ancient Mariner, We Three Productions, Biblio’s Cafe, The Womenkind Festival, Bady House Concerts, Bodega Monthly and Big Irv’s Gallery in Brooklyn, the Town School, CBGB’s and Tellebration at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York.

HOSTS:

MATT BARBEHENN: Matthew Barbehenn’s fiction has been published in several Canadian and Australian literary magazines, but very few American ones. He has taught creative writing, literature, and composition at Temple University, The Community College of Philadelphia, and Philadelphia University. He is currently working on several projects, including a book of short fiction and something that might one day be a novel. He has been living in New York for one month and he gets lost on a daily basis.

KAREN STEVENSON: Karen Stevenson is a technologist, journalist, and media entrepreneur who has lived in Brooklyn since the turn of the century.