Monday, February 27, 8-10pm, $8

Union Hall
702 Union Street at Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11215

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Each month, Bare brings together storytellers, comedians, sex educators and others to share true tales from their own experiences of sex, desire and romance. With stories as diverse as the people telling them, Bare opens doors to bedrooms, back seats and dungeons to tell what your mama left out about the birds, bees and in-betweens.

Rack ‘em up for tales of miscues from these sure-shot storytellers:

Hosted by Jefferson (Writer, One Life Take Two)

Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez (New York Confidential)

Selena Coppock (Connotations)

David Crabb (Ask Me, Bad Kid)

Sinnamon Love (Urban X and AVN Awards Hall of Famer)

Musical Guest Jessica Delfino

. . . and you! Ever missed a break? Put your name your name to the corner pocket for a chance to bare all on the Bare stage.

And more! One lucky audience member will win Bare’s sex-toy raffle, courtesy of Babeland.

Jefferson

Jefferson is the curator and host of Bare. A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert. He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez

Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez is a writer and comedian. He is the host and creator of New York Confidential, a real dirty storytelling series running at a hush-house near you. As a ghostwriter he has worked on projects about bank bailouts, the Iraq War, and Beyonce. You may have also seen him writing naughty things on a touchpad during this season of Gossip Girl.

Selena Coppock

Selena Coppock is a stand-up comedian, storyteller and writer. She has studied both improv and sketch comedy extensively, training at ImprovOlympic (Chicago), The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (New York), and ImprovAslyum (Boston). Selena has earned spots on a multitude of comedy festivals, including the Boston Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Competition, Detroit Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival and the Ladies Are Funny Festival (Austin). Her comedy writing has been featured on McSweeney’s, the Collared Sheep, and Rock Bottom Stories and she recently sold her first book (The New Rules for Blondes) to It Books (HarperCollins) for March, 2013 publication.

David Crabb

David Crabb is a performer, writer, director and storyteller in New York City. He is a two-time MothSlam champion and co-producer of Kevin Allison’s RISK! He is also the co-creator/producer of the live storytelling series Ask Me. David has been a member of NYC’s Axis Company Theatre since 2003, developing original material in New York, Paris and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. His one-person show “Bad Kid” was met with critical acclaim and is currently enjoying its second New York  run in 2012.

Jessica Delfino

Hailing from a small town in coastal Maine, Jessica Delfino grew up with the characters from Stephen King’s novels as her neighbors, and thus, today is a quirky, critically acclaimed pop musician who sings songs mostly in the key of strife, usually with a sense of humor to them.

Sinnamon Love

Sinnamon Love is an adult film star, fetish model, professional dominatrix, writer and single mom of three teenagers living in Brooklyn. Since 1993, Love has appeared in over 250 hardcore movies, numerous men’s magazines and countless appearances on Playboy TV and Radio. In 2010, Love took on a year-long tour with The Punany Poets of HBO’s Real Sex fame, a sex positive erotic poetry and sex education theater show. She is a frequent guest on Shade 45 on Sirius/ XM radio, and is currently a staff writer and relationship columnist for TheWellVersed.com. In 2010 she was inducted into the Urban X Awards’ Hall of Fame followed by induction into the AVN Awards’ Hall of Fame in 2011. Love is an outspoken autism/Asperger’s parent advocate and has recently taken on improving sex education in inner-city schools.

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Monday, January 30, 8-10pm, $8.

Union Hall
702 Union Street at Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11215

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Each month, Bare brings together storytellers, comedians, sex educators and others to share true tales from their own experiences of sex, desire and romance. With stories as diverse as the people telling them, Bare opens doors to bedrooms, back seats and dungeons to tell what your mama left out about the birds, bees and in-betweens.

Submitted for your consideration—tales of submission from these masterful storytellers:

Hosted by Jefferson (Writer, One Life take Two)

Kevin Allison (The State, RISK! Show)

Ophira Eisenberg (The Moth)

Nisse Greenberg (Rachel and the Elf, Drawn Out Storytelling)

Dino Stamatopolous (Moral Orel, Community)

Musical guest Kim Lundie

. . . and you! Have you been submissive or been submitted to? Submit your name to the hat for a chance to bare all on the Bare stage.

And more! One lucky audience member will win Bare’s sex-toy raffle, courtesy of Babeland.

Jefferson

Jefferson is the curator and host of Bare. A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert. He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Kevin Allison

Kevin Allison is the creator and host of the live storytelling show and podcast RISK!, and a member of the legendary television comedy troupe The State. He has appeared in Reno 911!, The Ten, VH1′s Best Week Ever, Comedy Central’s Viva Variety and Stella and HBO’s Flight of the Conchords. Kevin has written for The Village Voice, Premiere, Film Journal and more. He has written for Blue Man Group and served as the Artistic Director of The Peoples Improv Theater from 2006 to 2008. Kevin recently founded TheStoryStudio.org, a storytelling school in New York that offers workshops for businesses and individuals.

Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg, selected as one of New York Magazine’s Top Ten Comics, has appeared on Comedy Central, VH-1, Fox, E! Channel and The Joy Behar Show. Her writing has been published in four anthologies including I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics and Heeb’s collection Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish. She is a monthly contributor to US Magazine’s Fashion Police and a regular host for The Moth.

Nisse Greenberg

Nisse Greenberg is a sexual pervert and by”‘pervert” he means person who gets intimidated by the idea of going through multiple positions during the same session of intercourse. CRAZY! He prefers high fives to fucking, but only because he rarely cries during a high five. He also hosts and produces Drawn Out Storytelling and is one half of the sketch comedy group Rachel and the Elf.

Kimi Lundie

Kimi Lundie is a New York-based singer/songwriter. Kimi was born in Manhattan to a Hawaiian musician father and Polynesian dancer mother. In her first year of life, she traveled to over ten countries, finally landing in San Francisco where was raised. She began singing the National Anthem at air shows at age twelve; by sixteen, she was singing jazz and rhythm and blues at open mics. She is currently collaborating with several producers in Los Angeles and New York.

Dino Stamatopolous

Dino Stamatopoulos is a television comedy writer, actor and producer who has worked on Mr. Show, TV Funhouse, Mad TV, The Dana Carvey Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. He is also the creator of the Adult Swim programs Moral Orel and Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole. Stamatopoulos also currently plays the recurring role of “Star-Burns” on the NBC comedy series Community.

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Tuesday, January 24, 8-10pm, $8

The Black Cat, 1811 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 202/667-7960

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Bare brings together storytellers, comedians, sex educators and others to share true tales from their own experiences of sex, desire and romance. With stories as diverse as the people telling them, Bare opens doors to bedrooms, back seats and dungeons to tell what your mama left out about the birds, bees and in-betweens.

Based at Brooklyn’s Union Hall, Bare debuts in Washington DC with stories on the theme “firsts.” Tonight’s the night to pop cherries with:

Jefferson (Writer, One Life Take Two)

British “Lucky” Paul (DC Dungeon, FetFest)

JT Bullock (Writer, Poet)

Derek Hills (Writer, SpeakeasyDC)

Jennifer Luu (Life Coach, Wedding Officiant)

SM Shrake (Story League, The Moth)

Musical Guest Kimi Lundie

. . . and you! You’ve had all kinds of firsts in sex, desire and romance. Pick one and put your name in the hat for a chance to bare all on the Bare stage.

Jefferson is the curator and host of Bare. A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert.  He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around New York and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

British “Lucky” Paul is a sex educator famed for organizing kink and sex events in the Washington DC area. Proprietor of DC Dungeon, he is the founder of FetFest, an annual weekend-long BDSM festival located in rural Maryland. While his depravity knows no bounds, some of his interests include bondage, girls in shiny black latex rubber and spanking. In addition to his native UK, British “Lucky” Paul has pursued his perversions in San Francisco, Europe, Australia and elsewhere.

JT Bullock is poet, writer and storyteller who has published in academic journals, including Note Bene. He has competed in three National Poetry Slam competitions, most notably in 2006, when he ranked 19th nationally. JT was featured at Sparkle, a queer reading series at Busboys and Poets, and at Capturing Fire at The Fridge DC. Currently he is working on an autobiographical one-man show, which debuted as a work-in-progress at the Wooly Mammoth Theater through Artist Bloc.

Derek Hills is a storyteller and writer from Washington, DC. He is a regular on the SpeakeasyDC stage and was a part of its 2011 Halloween special, “Boo!” He has also performed in Vijai Nathan’s “Fan-Freaking-Tastic” variety show and with DC’s Story League. Other credits include “e-Geaux (beta)” from the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival and his work with the sketch-comedy group “Orbit Chef.”

Kimi Lundie is a New York-based singer/songwriter. Kimi was born in Manhattan to a Hawaiian musician father and Polynesian dancer mother. In her first year of life, she traveled to over ten countries, finally landing in San Francisco where was raised. She began singing the National Anthem at air shows at age twelve; by sixteen, she was singing jazz and rhythm and blues at open mics. She is currently collaborating with several producers in Los Angeles and New York.

Jennifer Luu is a storyteller, wedding officiant and life coach. An avid fan of rock shows (at The Black Cat), naps, and food, she enjoys all three with her stunning special ladyfriend, Cait, with whom she shares a finicky condominium (key word: mini) in Alexandria, VA. Jennifer was last seen in Better Said Than Done’s “All in the Family,” telling a story about what winter holiday traditions look like in her giant Vietnamese American family.

SM Shrake is the co-founder and leader of Story League, a collaborative group that puts on monthly sold-out story shows and contests in Washington, D.C. He has been interviewed twice on This American Life and is a Moth StorySlam winner. His other performing credits include Mortified in D.C., New York, Boston, and San Francisco; First Person Arts in Philadelphia; The Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore; and SpeakeasyDC in the nation’s capital.

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Monday, December 26, 8-10pm, $8.

Union Hall
702 Union Street at Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11215
718/638-4400

Advance Tickets

Each month, Bare brings together storytellers, comedians, sex educators and others to share true tales from their own experiences of sex, desire and romance. With stories as diverse as the people telling them, Bare opens doors to bedrooms, back seats and dungeons to tell what your mama left out about the birds, bees and in-betweens.

Join us as this resolute crew inspires you to make new resolutions (or perhaps break a few old ones):

Hosted by Jefferson (Writer, One Life Take Two)

Andy Christie (Storyteller, The Liar Show)

Michele Carlo (Moth, Fish Out Of Aqua)

Rachel Garber Cole (InDigest Magazine, Rachel and the Elf)

Mollena Williams (Sex Educator, Actor, The Perverted Negress)

Musical guest Joe Yoga (Downward Dogs)

. . . and you! Ever gained or lost your resolve? Felt compelled to make or break a resolution? Put your name in the hat for a chance to bare all on the Bare stage.

And more! One lucky audience member will win Bare’s sex-toy raffle, courtesy of Babeland.

Jefferson

Jefferson is the curator and host of Bare. A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert.  He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Michele Carlo

Michele Carlo is a writer/performer who has lived in four of the five boroughs of New York City and remembers when a slice of pizza cost fifty cents. She has been published in Thomas Beller’s Neighborhood’s Lost & Found: Stories From New York, Chicken Soup For The Latino Soul, SMITH magazine and in the upcoming anthology It’s Always Been A War. She’s told stories almost everywhere a person can tell stories, including The Moth’s GrandSlams and Mainstage. Her memoir Fish Out Of Agua: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks was published by Citadel Press in August 2010.

Andy Christie

Andy Christie‘s writing has appeared in The New York Times, in snooty literary journals and in the Thomas Beller anthology, Lost And Found: Stories from New York. His true stories have been heard on WFUV’s Cityscape and Peabody Award-winning “The Moth Radio Hour.” He is the creator and host of The Liar Show.

Rachel Garber Cole

Rachel Garber Cole is  the elfless half of Rachel and the Elf, a sketch comedy duo that has performed The Tank, The Pit, Under St. Marks Theater, and Gotham Comedy Club. Solo, she performs as her alter ego, Rachel Cole, Singer/Songwriter, who hosts the monthly all-female comedy/variety show, Rachel Cole, Singer/Songwriter Presents: A Variety Show For the Hungry Heart. She is currently in production with the short film, Pregnant and Dying, an experiment written, directed and performed by herself. Rachel is a columnist for InDigest Magazine. You may also recognize Rachel as “Momatron: Robotic Mom Sent From the Future to Instill the Values of the Past” as part of the Five Borough Ladies Arm Wrestling competitions.

Mollena Williams

Mollena (Mo) Williams is a performer, actor, writer and BDSM educator. She is International Ms Leather 2010 and  Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009. Mollena travels North America and Europe speaking on kink, BDSM, power exchange relationships, consensual master/slave relationships, and negotiating all of it safely.  Author of The Toybag Gude: Taboo Play, Mollena’s essays appear anthologies including Best Sex Writing 2010, The Lust Chronicles, Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink and the forthcoming Ulimate Guide to Kinky Sex. Mollena is a featured educator with KinkAcademy, columnist for SexIs Magazine and a founding member of San Francisco’s Crowded Fire Theater Company and blogs at The Perverted Negress.

Joe Yoga

Joe Yoga is a New York City-based singer songwriter, among other things. He plays all over the city, both solo and with his band Downward Dogs. He is working on several recording projects and a book that should keep him busy for a while.

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Monday, November 28, 8-10pm, $5

Union Hall
702 Union Street at Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11215
718/638-4400

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Each month, Bare brings together storytellers, comedians, sex educators and others to share true tales from their own experiences of sex, desire and romance. With stories as diverse as the people telling them, Bare opens doors to bedrooms, back seats and dungeons to tell what your mama left out about the birds, bees and in-betweens.

“More” is the theme to be moored by this full-throated crew:

Hosted by Jefferson (One Life Take Two, Writer, Storyteller)

Diana Adams (Activist, Attorney, Polyamory Expert)

Kevin Allison (The State, Risk!, Storyteller)

Mike Amato (Actor, Writer, Comedian)

Kelli Dunham (Queer Memoirs, Comedian, Storyteller)

Abby Ehmann (Burning Man, Smutmeister, Event Planner)

Musical guests Eden & John’s East River String Band

. . . and you! Ever wanted more or felt enough was enough? Put your name in the hat for a chance to bare all on the Bare stage.

And more! One lucky audience member will win Bare’s sex-toy raffle, courtesy of Babeland.

Jefferson

Jefferson is the curator and host of Bare. A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert.  He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Diana Adams

Diana Adams is an activist for sexual freedom between consenting adults. An attorney and mediator whose law practice serves LGBT, poly, kinky and other nontraditional families in New York, Diana is a renowned speaker on legal alternatives to marriage and the future of the American family. She sits on the Advisory Council of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation. A prominent public face for poly, Diana is a leader of Open Love NY and hostess of Poly Cocktail. Her poly family was featured on MTV’s True Life in 2009. She is the recipient of the 2011 Sexual Freedom Award from Folsom Street East.

Kevin Allison

Kevin Allison is the creator and host of the live storytelling show and podcast RISK!, and a member of the legendary television comedy troupe The State. He has appeared in Reno 911!, The Ten, VH1′s Best Week Ever, Comedy Central’s Viva Variety and Stella and HBO’s Flight of the Conchords. Kevin has written for The Village Voice, Premiere, Film Journal and more. He has written for Blue Man Group and served as the Artistic Director of The Peoples Improv Theater from 2006 to 2008. Kevin recently founded TheStoryStudio.org, a storytelling school in New York that offers workshops for businesses and individuals.

Mike Amato

Mike Amato is an actor, writer, comedian and playwright who blogs for The Huffington Post. He’s performed in the Edinburgh Fringe festival and the Montreal Comedy festival and his prose can be seen in several online and print journals. On December 7, he’ll be hosting the comedy and burlesque show “Grab-Ass!” at the Bowery Poetry Club.

Kelli Dunham

Genderqueer nerdcomic Kelli Dunham is the host and co-founder of New York’s only LGBT storytelling event, Queer Memoir. She performs at colleges, coffeehouses and pride events nationwide. Her comedy has been seen on Showtime and the Discovery Channel as well as once—just once—at a livestock auction. She wants to be your friend on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and any other future social networking platform, where her screen name is always (get this cleverness) kellidunham.

Abby Ehmann

Abby Ehmann is a Manhattan-based woman-about-town. A self-described “smutmeister,” she has covered almost every conceivable sexual topic: obscure fetishes and carnal obsessions, nightclubs and erotic events, sex toys, adult DVDs, not to mention tales of her personal sexploits. She is also an Event Planner, hosting everything from singles’ mixers to sex parties. And no, they’re not the same thing! For three months each year, she works for Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert. In addition, she designs costumes, embellishes chapeaux and generally makes money by making trouble.

Eden & John's East River String Band

Drawing from traditional American country blues, Eden & John’s East River String Band creates authentic renditions of songs from the 1920s and early 30s. Founded in 2006, the New York City-based duo have released four albums and toured the US, Canada and Europe. Mainstays Eden Brower (vocals, ukulele, guitar, kazoo) and John Heneghan (vocals, guitar, mandolin, kazoo) are often joined by such musicians as underground comic legend Robert Crumb (Cheap Suit Serenaders), stride pianist Terry Waldo (Leon Redbone, Woody Allen) and multi-intrumentalist Dom Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops). Their 2011 release, “Be Kind To A Man When He’s Down,” features Crumb on mandolin, Conte on fiddle and banjo and Flemons on guitar.

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Each Bare! show features a raffle prize courtesy of Babeland. Killy “Mockstar” Dwyer chose the raffle prize for the premiere show and reviewed it prior to the raffle. She picked the Remote Panty Vibe, a pair of panties outfitted with a frontal pocket designed to hold a remote controlled vibrator. Never having used a remote device, Killy decided to review it live on stage.

Bare! host Jefferson handed over a package containing the Remote Panty Vibe. Killy began by wriggling into the panties, lifting her tutu to show how they fit. “I’m excited about this little pocket,” she said, tucking a finger into the pouch. “It—oh!—it’s right where it should be, just over my clit. I don’t know about you, but I need a little clitoral stimulation to get off.” She paused for a moment, enjoying her exploration of the pocket. “You all know about clitoral stimulation right? Raise your hands if you know about it.” She looked out over the audience. “Those of you who didn’t raise your hands need to pay special attention. The rest of you, well, I know you’re paying attention. You know what I’m talking about.”

She showed the vibrator. “See? It’s a cute little egg with a tail. The tail is how it gets the signal from the remote control.” She turned it for closer examination. “Hmm, I guess this could go inside you . . .”

“It can indeed,” nodded Jefferson. “In that case, you’d want to leave the tail outside your body. For that use, I’d recommend putting the vibrator inside a condom. That makes clean up a breeze.”

Killy smiled. “Now, I hadn’t considered that. But for now, we’re going to talk about using it for clitoral stimulation so I can show off my panties.” She lifted her tutu. “Okay, so now the vibrator is going into the pocket . . . ooh, there.” She jumped a few times. “Yeppers, that’s right where it ought to be.” Killy jumped again, apparently for her own enjoyment.

She held up the remote. “Now, this is the thing that makes it all happen: the remote control. The person holding this is the person who controls this,” she said, pointing to her tutu. “So, the question is: who wants to be in control of my panties?” She looked at Jefferson. “No, not you . . . I could offer it to my husband, but he gets to play with it later . . . any volunteers?” Hands flew up. A male voice called out. “Oh! I like that enthusiasm. Come up here, mister.” The volunteer came forward and introduced himself as Yannis. “You’re French?” Killy asked. “That’s already working for me.” The audience groaned. “A girl can like an accent!” Killy reprimanded. “Okay, Frenchie, you take the remote and then . . .”

Killy fell quiet. Yannis grinned. Jefferson asked, “Oh, is that . . .?”

Killy nodded, her mouth widening. Her knees went together. “Uh, yeah, that’s . . .” She turned and bent over. “Geez! Okay. Okay!” She turned back to the audience, her cheeks flushed. “Okay, so I suppose that’s the fast speed.”

“There’s another speed?” Yannis asked, looking at the remote. “Ah, there are these buttons.” He pushed one. Killy straightened up. “Ah, okay, yes. Yes, that’s nice. Very nice and easy.” She grinned, resting a forearm on her microphone stand. “Well, I tell you, I could do this all day.” Suddenly, she stiffened. Yannis grinned. “And there’s the fast speed again!” Killy writhed for a few moments. “Okay, Frenchie, okay,” she said, holding out a hand. “Any more of that and we’ll be married. Hand over the remote.” Yannis surrendered the device. Killy took it, smiled and pushed buttons for a few moments.

“Killy . . . ?” Jefferson asked.

“Oh, sorry!” Killy fumbled the remote, switching it off. “I can save that for later. So anyway, that’s the basics of these pleasure panties. Any questions?”

Someone asked if the remote worked over long distances. “Well, before the show, I tried them out to be sure the batteries functioned. Two women helped me in the ladies room; I suppose I’m dating them now, come to think of it. We tried some short distances and it worked fine. But I don’t think you can use this for a long distance relationship.”

Killy was asked if she was sad to be giving up the panties for the raffle. “Oh no, these are mine!” she exclaimed. “I think we have another pair to give away?”

“Indeed,” Jefferson nodded. “Thanks to our friends at Babeland.” Everyone attending Bare! had been given a raffle ticket. The first number pulled happened to belong to Killy’s husband. Foul was cried and another number pulled. Denise was the lucky winner. Happy remote controlled jollies, Denise!

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Bare brings together storytellers, comedians, sex educators and others to share true tales from their own experiences of sex, desire and romance. With stories as diverse as the people telling them, Bare opens doors to bedrooms, back seats and dungeons to tell what your mama left out about the birds, bees and in-betweens.

The first installment of Bare focuses on—what else?—first times. Come to Union Hall to pop cherries with these scintillating performers:

Hosted by Jefferson (Writer, Storyteller, One Life Take Two)

Killy “Mockstar” Dwyer (Comedian, Musician, Alter Ego)

Ophira Eisenberg (Comedian, Author, The Moth)

Dave Hill (Comedian, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, This American Life)

Lolita Wolf (Sex Educator, Author, Princess)

Musical guest Molly Ruth

. . . and you! You have a story about a sexy first time. Put your name in the hat for a chance to bare all on the Bare stage.

And more! One lucky audience member will win Bare’s sex-toy raffle, courtesy of Babeland.

Jefferson is the curator and host of Bare. A sex educator, writer and storyteller, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, detailing his life as a parent and pervert. Follow his blog, Twitter and Facebook for upcoming appearances.

Killy "Mockstar" Dwyer

Killy “Mockstar” Dwyer is a comedic performance artist and co-host of Alter Ego at Fontana’s. Every third Sunday, Alter Ego makes a party of the underground performance scene, with dance, music, art and burlesque. Her recent album with Kill the Band, “Famous Baby,” includes songs of hope, inspiration and girl balls.

Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg, selected as one of New York Magazine’s Top Ten Comics,  has appeared on Comedy Central, VH-1, Fox, E! Channel and “The Joy Behar Show.” Her writing has been published in four anthologies including I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics and Heeb’s collection Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish. She is a monthly contributor to US Magazine’s Fashion Police and a regular host for The Moth.

Dave Hill

Dave Hill hosts The Dave Hill Explosion at the Upright Citizens Brigade and starred in the television show The King of Miami. Dave currently appears on HBO, Cinemax, the comedy website Super Deluxe and fronts the band Valley Lodge. A contributor to This American Life, he hosts the Dave Hill’s Podcasting Incident. Dave has published in The New York Times, Salon.com, and Huffington Post; a book of essays will soon be published by St. Martin’s Press.

Molly Ruth

Molly Ruth’s forthcoming debut LP, “Birth Against the Nation,” includes songs about animals, incest, fear, glory, murder, God, honor, blasphemy, tragedy, fervor, frenzy, longing, dreams, deserts, pain, devotion, crossroads, blood, birds, minds, time and war.

Lolita Wolf

Lolita Wolf discovered BDSM in the late ‘eighties when “being online” meant accessing phone sex lines. An activist who defends sexual freedom for all consenting adults, Lolita helps the community to flourish while keeping a primary focus on having fun. Lolita has taught at events across the country, serving on the boards of many sex-positive organizations. The author of Spanking and CBT in a Nutshell, Lolita was recently featured in The New York Times’s “One in Eight Million” series.

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