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.



HOW I LEARNED I MIGHT BE OBSESSED (VOLUME II)


Back in 2010, How I Learned brought you "How I Learned I Might Be Obsessed," featuring stories of infiltrating an anti-gay Christian conference, competitive eating,  a rock band employing chickens for percussion, chasing a one-night-stand all the way to Hong Kong, getting locked out of the house half naked with a vibrator and a baby, and also Oprah Winfrey. This month, come out for new stories on the same subject from a wicked hot lineup that may or may not include people with addictive personalities and/or some sort of borderline sociopathic bipolar disorders. (Not judging. Might be projecting.)

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The How I Learned Series Presents:
How I Learned I Might Be Obsessed (Volume II)

Featuring:
OPHIRA EISENBERG
(Storyteller / Comedian / Host of NPR's Ask Me Another / Author, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy)
JAMES BRALY
(Performer / Author, Life in a Marital Institution)
ALEX GALLAFENT
(Actor / Writer / Correspondent for the BBC)
ROSE SURNOW
(Humorist / Writer, New York Magazine; VICE)
CHRISTINE GENTRY
(Storyteller, Story Collider; The Moth)

Creator / Producer / Host:
Blaise Allysen Kearsley


Wednesday, April 24th
8:00PM / Doors at 7
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
Between Forsyth + Eldridge
B, D to Grand
F, J, M, Z to Delancey
FREE


OPHIRA EISENBERG is a comedian, writer, and host of NPR’s new weekly trivia comedy show, Ask Me Another. She has appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central, and VH-1. Selected as one of New York Magazine's Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny, and featured in the New York Times as a skilled comedian and storyteller with a “bleakly stylish” sense of humor, Ophira's debut memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy is in stores now. She is also a regular host and teller with The Moth.

JAMES BRALY is the author and performer of the monologue Life in a Marital Institution, reviewed as "gaspingly funny" by Variety and "never less than excellent" by the New York Times. The monologue has become a memoir by the same name, published by St. Martin's Press, and has also been optioned for film and television. His stories have been broadcast nationally on This American Life, NPR and Marketplace. 

ALEX GALLAFENT is a former producer for the BBC Radio in London and currently a correspondent for the BBC and Public Radio International's The World. He has performed sketch comedy and one-act plays in New York and the UK, and can be seen regularly at  The Pit with his improv troupe, Skycopter, or playing drums and trumpet with the BTK Band, NYC's hardest-drinking, improvised storytelling rock band.

David CrabbROSE SURNOW used to be a tiny baby, but then she was like, "F@#$ that." Now she's a performer and humorist whose writing has appeared in New York magazine, VICE, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Thought Catalog and elsewhere. She is 9 feet tall and weighs 6 pounds.


CHRISTINE GENTRY  joins BBQ on the short list of good things to come out of Texas. A high school English teacher at heart, she currently teaches creative writing and oral storytelling to NYC public school students while getting her Ph.D. Christine has performed at The Moth, The Story Collider, and The Adam Wade From New Hampshire Show, and her short stories have been published in Word Riot, Flashquake, and Printer's Devil Review magazines.
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