Queer Memoir is New York's first and longest running LGBT storytelling series; giving voice to our collective queer experience and preserving and documenting our complex queer history. Every month, we host some of Queer New York's best known performers, and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives and bring them together to celebrate the ritual and community building value of storytelling.
WIth our storytellers..
Elsa Waithe
J Maase iii
Heather Trobe
Elliott Deline
Jefferson Bites
...
Queer Memoir is New York's first and longest running LGBT storytelling series; giving voice to our collective queer experience and preserving and documenting our complex queer history. Every month, we host some of Queer New York's best known performers, and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives and bring them together to celebrate the ritual and community building value of storytelling.
WIth our storytellers..
Elsa Waithe
J Maase iii
Heather Trobe
Elliott Deline
Jefferson Bites
Colin Wilim
YaliniDream
5-15 bucks sliding scale, no one turned away!
Queer Memoir was founded by comic storyteller Kelli Dunham and playwright Genne Murphy in January 2010. In four years they have created more than 85 Queer Memoir events, drawing in over 7200 audience members and 365 different storytellers. Queer Memoir has collaborated with 13 arts organizations in four states, conducted almost a dozen storytelling workshops and used nearly a hundred venues including the MTA, sharing stories on both the A and Q Trains.
HEATHER TROBE
Heather Dockray is a Brooklyn-based storyteller, writer, and performer. She writes regularly for the comedy website FilmDrunk/Uproxx and has been featured on Entertainment Weekly, The Onion AV Club, Gawker, and Buzzfeed. You can check out more of Heather’s work at www.heatherdockray.com or follow her on Twitter @Wear_a_helmet.
ELSA WAITHE
Comedian, Actor, and Motivational Speaker.
Typical Wildchild and Epicenter of Every Good Party!!!
J Mase III
J Mase III is a Black/Trans/Queer/Rowdy-as-Hell Poet with a capital [P] currently based in Brooklyn. As a performer and teaching poet J Mase III has rocked venues all across the US to the UK, from colleges and radio stations to group homes and youth centers. An organ donor, J Mase is the author of If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I Was the Fiercest Poet Around and creator of the annual performance event Cupid Ain’t @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement. A bit of a public intellectual (not in the snotty way, though) J Mase can also be found contributing to publications such as the Huffington Post as a repeat blogger, the Vanderbilt African American Lectionary Online to talk about LGBTQ teens in the church and the anthology Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work, to share insight about gender and genitalia.
COLIN WILHM
Colin Wilhm is a writer / storyteller living in Brooklyn. When he's not pursuing art, he works for the real estate website, Trulia. He's also a former semi-professional violinist, and helped produce the documentary film "Catfish" and another movie you've probably never heard of that starred Ryan Gosling. He is thrilled to be a part of the Queer Memoir series.
ELLIOTT DELINE
Elliott DeLine is a transgender writer and activist from Syracuse, NY. He is the author of the novel Refuse and the novella I Know Very Well How I Got My Name. His work has been featured in the Modern Love essay series of The New York Times, The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, and Original Plumbing Magazine. He is a founder and vice president of the nonprofit CNY for Solidarity, Inc., and the general coordinator of Queer Mart, an LGBTQ arts and crafts fair. Elliott currently lives in Syracuse, NY.
JEFFERSON BITES
Jefferson is the curator and host of Foreplay. 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. He is also host of Bare! True Stories of Sex, Desire and Romance, monthly in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
YALINIDREAM
Sri Lankan Tamil blood, Manchester-born, Texas-bred and Brooklyn-brewed, YaliniDream conjures Spirit through her unique blend of poetry, theater, song, and dance. Raised by her community's wounds, her artistic path is rooted in healing. YaliniDream is one of the Sri Lankan diaspora's most prominent performance poets gracing international stages in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. She was Artistic Director of APIA feminist performance company Mango Tribe, Artist in Residence at Asian Arts Initiative, a recipient of the Jerome Foundation's Fellowship in Literature and a 2013 Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan's Center for World Performance Studies. She collaborates with her partner in art and love Hip Hop MC Jendog Lonewolf as the duo DreamWolf, is a facilitator with Vision Change Win, and is a teaching artist with EM Technique.