Since 2009, How I Learned has featured some of the best live storytelling, comedy, and readings in New York City. It all happens a couple of times a year, and sometimes more than that, which basically means you'll have the best night of you life on those nights, repeatedly.



HAPPENING MARCH 4TH AND V EXCITED ABOUT IT


The How I Learned Series presents:
How I Learned To Get Away With It

Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
9pm Doors / 9:30 Show
Caveat, 21 A Clinton Street, Lower East Side

Featuring:

Sady Doyle
Amber Rollo
Jamie Brickhouse
Mike Brown
Abbi Crutchfield
Hosted by Blaise Allysen Kearsley

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SADY DOYLE is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why. The Atlantic predicted that "Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon." While waiting to join the feminist canon, to which she will bring a basket of muffins, Sady has wrote the book Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Awl, Buzzfeed, Rookie, Slate, Elle, and all across the Internet. She is also the founder of the blog Tiger Beatdown.

AMBER ROLLO is a writer and comedian who has headlined the New York Comedy Festival and co-hosts the monthly show Stoked Comedy. She recently earned the title "Downright Rude" when she confronted Harvey Weinstein who showed up in the audience at a downtown variety show. Her writing has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Refinery29, and elsewhere.

JAMIE BRICKHOUSE is a four-time Moth StorySLAM winner and the author of the acclaimed memoir Dangerous When Wet, hailed by Mary Karr as "required reading." His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and Out. He has been a regular guest on Risk, Story Collider, and Literary Death Match.

MIKE BROWN co-produces the critically acclaimed shows Super Video Bros., The Feel Good Show, and Comedy Outliers. He has appeared on Adult Swim and at San Francisco Sketch Fest where he was named one of Rooftop's Comics To Watch. He is the creator and star of the popular web series, Can't Stop, Won't Stop.

ABBI CRUTCHFIELD is a comedian, writer and actor. A UCB alum, she produces the live comedy hour "The Living Room Show" in Brooklyn. She has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS, Broad City on Comedy Central, and she hosted You Can Do Better on TruTV. She tours as a stand-up with the group Pink Collar Tour and improvises with the ethnically diverse indie team Nobody's Token.

BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY is the creator, producer, and host of the How I Learned series, which has been called one of NYC's Best Storytelling Shows by Time Out NY, and CBS New York named it one of the Five Best NYC Comedy Shows Hosted By Women. They also called her "awkwardly funny." She has appeared on The Moth, Risk, Story Collider, Mortified, and Literary Death Match. Her writing has been featured in Longreads, Midnight Breakfast, VICE, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, two anthologies, and several other places a long time ago, that don't even exist anymore, and are perhaps not worth mentioning by name.

HOW I LEARNED IN THE BEGINNING: ORIGIN STORIES - JAN 30 9PM AT CAVEAT!



First show of the new year. Treat yourself. It's 2020, bitch!




10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! 11/21/19 OMG I'M SO TIRED



10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW!
"How I Learned It's Not Like On TV"


Thursday, November 21st, 2019
6:30 doors / 7:00 show
21A Clinton Street, NYC

Featuring:
APARNA NANCHERLA
(Bojack Horseman; Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell)
(Another Bullshit Night in Suck City; I Will Destroy You)
(Dame Magazine; Nasty Women)
(The Moth; Shame)
(Awkward Sex in the City; Party of Two)

Hosted by
Blaise Allysen Kearsley

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HOW I LEARNED TO LIVE IN NEW YORK 06/06/2019 AT CAVEAT NYC!

Summer school is in session when How I Learned returns to her L.E.S. roots. Join us, won't you? (It's actually required.)

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HOW I LEARNED TO FIGHT BACK! WED 12/12/18 AT UNION HALL

Stories for smashing the patriarchy, or something like it. Join Marie Faustin, Ayo Edebiri, Alexander Chee, John Fugelsang, Janice Elrbaum, Vernon Payne, and host Blaise Allysen Kearsley. Partial proceeds go to EMILY's List to actively encourage more women to run for office and to get them elected.
Wednesday, December 12, 8PM (doors at 7:30) and Union Hall, Brooklyn. $12 in advance / $15 at the door. GET TICKETS

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE EVERY DAY EXCEPT ON DECEMBER 12TH FOR OBVIOUS REASONS


Hello, New York! On DECEMBER 12th, come to Union Hall for stories and booze—and help elect more women while you're at it. Activism is so easy! A portion of all the proceeds for this show will go to EMILY's List to change the face of power on national, state, and local levels. We flipped the house, but our work is far from over. WE WILL FLIP ALL THE THINGS! Tickets and details here. xo



Posted on Friday, November 16th, 2018

IT'S BEEN A MINUTE...

One Night Only! We're not playing around. 
(Also, here's the event on Facebook because that's how you know it's even real.)
Cannot wait to see you.

Posted on Thursday, March 15th, 2018