KGB Bar

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with your hostess, Kathleen Warnock

Andrea Alton is an actor/writer who was most recently seen in The Chiselers with Emerging Artists Theatre. Other favorite theatre credits include Big Girl, Little World (NY Fringe), Reckless, End Of Summer (Kaleidoscope Theatre Co), My Name Is Art, Den of Iniquity (EAT) and Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever which she co-wrote and acted in (2008 NY Fringe Festival).  Upcoming projects include The Strangest Kind of Romance with The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival and the remounted production of Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever this winter. At DCW, Andrea will be channeling her lovable inner geek “Shelly” who will be performing her original poems about baked potatos, rainbows and her alcoholic childhood.

Jaffe Cohen is an award winning screenwriter, author, stand up comic, actor and educator. His screenplay Hit and Runway, which he co-wrote with director Christopher Livingston, won “Best Screenplay” at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Outfest, the Seattle Film Festival and the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Jaffe also has the distinction of being one of the first openly gay standup comedians on national television. His highly acclaimed one man show The King of Kings and I, directed by Michael Zam, opened in New York at the Courtyard Theater. His comic memoir with the same title was published in 1997. Jaffe is also the co-author of Growing Up Gay: from Left Out to Coming Out. He also created and performed in a sketch comedy show called In Thru the Out Door. He was a featured performer in the film documentary We’re Funny That Way. Jaffe also appeared in the films As Good As It Gets, directed by James L. Brooks and Hanging Up, directed by Diane Keaton. A native New Yorker, Jaffe is currently writing a new screenplay with the producer of Hit and Runway and a novel about a horny gay astrologer.

Janice Erlbaum is the author of GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, and HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir. Her poetry and prose has been featured in anthologies including ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, THE BUST GUIDE TO THE NEW GIRL ORDER, THE BEST AMERICAN EROTIC POEMS FROM 1800 TO THE PRESENT, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHER’S HANDBOOK: The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir, and VERSES THAT HURT: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets. She was a contributor to BUST magazine from 1994 through 2007 and has also written for the websites McSweeney’s, Nerve, and Nextbook. Her work has been featured in Glamour, Redbook, Marie Claire, Elle, Elle UK, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, and New York Times.  Janice teaches memoir writing and has addressed audiences at colleges, coffee houses, and theaters across the East Coast. She lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner, Bill Scurry, and their three cats.

Duncan Pflaster has been writing and producing plays in New York City for 10 years. Last year, his Big Epic Naked Ridiculous Fairy Tale play Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants won three MITF awards (including Outstanding Playwriting and Outstanding Overall Production of a New Comedy Play), in addition to winning the Spotlight On Award for Best New Play in 2006.  His play Eternity: Time Without End won Four Spotlight On Awards (including Best Written Original Play) in 2005.  Other plays include last month’s vampire play Suckers, Ore, or Or, The Wastes of Time, Sleeping in Tomorrow, The Thyme of the Season, Admit Impediments, Amazing Dædalus, and a panoply of shorter pieces that have been seen in festivals all over the place.  www.duncanpflaster.com.