Our next show is Wednesday October 17, 2018 at Caveat, Lower East Side.

the theme of the night is “my truth about aging”

Aging: we’re all doing it, whether you’re Team 20s or Team 80s. We want to know how YOU do it. This month at Generation Women, we're inviting our performers to tell us a story about getting older. It might be a moment of realization, of humor, of joy, of sadness, of frustration. Whatever it is, it’ll be human and true. This October, our all-star line-up will be sharing their truth about aging with you.

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List. 

Generation Women is a cross-generational storytelling night in New York City. Each month, five women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s, and her 70s+. Generation Women celebrates and amplifies women’s voices and creativity. Our diverse line-ups will make you laugh, cry, and think. We’re a unique, intimate female literary salon that brings together women of all ages. 

CAVEAT

21 A CLINTON STREET, NEW YORK, NY

DOORS AT 6:30, SHOW AT 7 PM

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Our last show was Wednesday, September 12th at Caveat, Lower East Side

The theme of the night was “Little White Lies”

We’ve all told them. And this month, we're inviting our performers to tell us their little white lies. Maybe it's a lie they were caught out in, or one they've maintained for years. Maybe it’s a lie they tell or told someone close to them, or a stranger… or even themselves. Why did they feel the need to lie? When we dig deep, what’s really going on there? And most importantly: what is their truth? This month at Caveat we want to know how you're REALLY feeling!

Team 20s: Hala Maroc is a radio personality, artist, serial entrepreneur, and overall multi-media powerhouse. She created #ontheblockwithhalamaroc, a growing online community of creatives on the rise. Her new single “it sounds like” is out now.

Team 30s: Charreah K. Jackson serves as an international love and success coach, ESSENCE Senior Editor and author of Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman's Playbook for Love & Success on St. Martin's Press. Her informed point-of-view has been featured on CNN, The Today Show, Fortune and TIME. The Atlanta native lives and loves in Harlem. 

Team 40s: Allison Silverman is a TV writer and producer.  She executive produced The Colbert Report, and co-executive produced Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Office.  Other credits include Portlandia, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and more.

Team 50: Carla Katz is a storyteller who has performed all over NYC, including at Caveat, the Fat Black Pussycat, the Magnet Theater, the Tank, MOTH story slams, and the PIT.  She had a solo show called BODY PARTS in the SOLOCOM 2017 Comedy Festival and she co-produces the On the Waterfront Storytelling Series. She is a labor lawyer, a Professor at Rutgers, and a long time union leader.

Team 60s: Martha Frankel is a writer, knitter, poker player, and yenta. She is the executive director of Woodstock Bookfest and the host of Woodstock Booktalk. She runs storyslams.com seasonally in Woodstock NY. Her memoir, Hats & Eyeglasses, traces her addiction to gambling.

Team 70s: Roseann Shaiman became a mother in her 30s, and a practicing psychotherapist in her 40s.  In her 50s, she became a certified yoga instructor.  In her 60s, she became a celebrant joining couples in marriage.  A "storylistener" by vocation, she has been inspired by Generation Women in her 70s to become a fledgling storyteller. 

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List.

 

Generation Women is a cross-generational storytelling night in New York City. Each month, five women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, and her 60s+. Generation Women celebrates and amplifies women’s voices and creativity. Our diverse line-ups will make you laugh, cry, and think. We’re a unique, intimate female literary salon that brings together women of all ages. 

CAVEAT

21 A CLINTON STREET, NEW YORK, NY

DOORS AT 6:30, SHOW AT 7 PM

thank you everyone!

Our last show was Wednesday, August 15th at Caveat, Lower East Side

The theme of the night WAs Crossing Off My Bucket List.

Hold the phone: it's our end of summer EXTRAVAGANZA! We're closing out this hot hot summer with our biggest and best show yet, full of powerhouse performers ready to bare their souls for you. Off the prompt "crossing off my bucket list", we’re inviting our all-star line-up to share with us their unique accomplishments and achievements, big and small. Laugh, cry, swoon and get inspired by the wise and wisdom of ladies of all ages. 

Team 20: Mattie Kahn is a Senior Editor at Glamour. She covers politics, style, culture, and dangerous women. 

Team 30: Prachi Gupta is a senior reporter at Jezebel and a co-host of Jezebel's former politics podcast, Big Time Dicks. She covered the 2016 election for Cosmopolitan.com. Her writing has appeared at Salon, IndieWire, and elsewhere, and has been covered by outlets like Vox, the Columbia Journalism Review, and AdWeek.

Team 40: Glynnis MacNicol is a writer and co-founder of TheLi.st. She is the author of No One Tells You This: A Memoir. Her work has appeared in print and online for publications including ELLE.com, where she was a contributing writer; The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, The Cut,and many more. 

Team 50: Helen Little is the nation's most listened to radio personality and can be heard on iHeartRadio’s 106.7 Lite-FM in NYC. She hosts The Public Library Podcast on iHeartRadio and iTunes. A speaker, success coach, and award-winning poet, Helen has written her first novel with hopes for finding a publisher soon.

Team 60: Sandi Marx is a retired talent agent who is now a fixture on the New York storytelling scene. She is a seven-time Moth StorySLAM champion and she’s been featured on: nationally televised PBS’s "Stories For The Stage," on “Women of Letters,” and at the Women’s Comedy Festival in Boston.

Team 70: Carol K. Brown is a sculptor/visual artist who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally in over 30 solo exhibitions. Her work has been shown at the Beijing Biennial; the National Museum for Women in the Arts; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. 

Generation Women is a cross-generational storytelling night in New York City. Each month, five women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, and her 60s+. Generation Women celebrates and amplifies women’s voices and creativity. Our diverse line-ups will make you laugh, cry, and think. We’re a unique, intimate female literary salon that brings together women of all ages. Best of all, each ticket will include a signed copy of host/founder Georgia Clark's acclaimed new novel, The Bucket List!

 

CAVEAT

21 A CLINTON STREET, NEW YORK, NY

DOORS AT 6:30, SHOW AT 7 PM

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Our last show was Wednesday, July 25th at KGB Bar, East Village

THE THEME OF THE NIGHT WAS "OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE"

Our last show was a pop-up secret show at Red Room, KGB Bar (85 E 4th St, NY, NY 10003). 

Team 20: Lauren Blodgett is an immigration attorney at a New York non-profit, where she provides free legal representation to refugee children. She is the co-founder of an immigrant girls empowerment group called Las Mariposas (the Butterflies). Lauren has worked on human rights issues all over the world, including in Morocco, Jordan, Tanzania, Cambodia and more. 

Team 30: Jiji Lee is a comedy writer in New York. Her humor writing has been published in Reductress, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.

Team 40: Melanie LeGrande turned 40 in April and is living her best life in NYC. A military brat, Melanie has worked in community affairs and corporate social responsibility for almost 15 years and currently serves as vice president of social responsibility for Major League Baseball.

Team 50: Kelli Dunham is the ex-nun genderqueer RN nerd comic so common in modern Brooklyn and the author of seven books of hilarious nonfiction. Kelli's writing has appeared on New Republic, Time.com, Thought Catalog, and the NPR health blog. Mayor Bill DeBlasio once called Kelli a "show off." To her face.

Team 60: Raised in Boston and Manhattan, Joan Lebow started her career as a business journalist before leading PR and Communications for government agencies, hospitals and schools, and now consults in the field. She's the mother of two young men and loves taking pictures in her new Brooklyn neighborhood, Bay Ridge. 

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List.

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Our last show was Wednesday, July 18th at Caveat, Lower East Side

The theme the night was “What I Truly Desire” 

 

Think a sexy story, or a story about sex that isn’t sexy at all. Or maybe passion: when you discovered it, or when it discovered you. Think your desire—for the physical, the emotional, the calorie-ridden, the overpriced: whatever makes you think I MUST MAKE YOU MINE. Or maybe a first kiss, or a last kiss, or the kiss that never was, or the kiss that was everything. This month it was all about desire: for whatever, whoever, whenever. It was a truly sizzling evening.

CAVEAT

21 A Clinton Street, New York, NY

Doors at 6:30, show at 7 PM

Team 20: Ashley Gavin is a national touring comedian. Her comedy has been featured on Hulu, SiriusXM, Refinery29, and more. She's best known for her hard-hitting, intelligent, and sometimes absurd social commentary, and her webseries Gay Girl Straight Girl has over 400k views and has been featured in Galore Mag.

Team 30: Piera Gelardi is a co-founder of Refinery29, and is consistently motivated by her brand’s mission: To be a catalyst for women to see, feel, and claim their power. Gelardi is one of Entrepreneur magazine’s 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs, and one of Adweek's 37 Women Who Are Disrupting the Status Quo and Championing Gender Diversity. She also sits on the board of the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

Team 40: Kathleen McKitty Harris is a fifth-generation native New Yorker whose writing has appeared in The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, and Creative Nonfiction, among others. Her essay, “A Timeline of Human Female Development,” was recently published in the anthology My Body, My Words. She has also performed at the Moth in New York City, and several other storyslams. 

Team 50: Peternelle van Arsdale is an independent book editor, essay and short story writer, and the author of two novels for young adults—The Beast Is an Animal and The Cold Is in Her Bones—that have been described as dark fairy tales. She’s now at work on her third novel. 

Team 60: Comedian Rhonda Hansome is a comedian, actor and director, and has told true stories at NY Story Exchange, Bady House StoryTelling Concert, and Yum’s the Word. Rhonda is also on the John Fugelsang SiriusXM show "Tell Me Everything" every Monday.

Team 80: Piri Halasz is a New York-born art critic, journalist, art historian, and teacher.

 

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List.

WE SOLD OUT! THANK YOU EVERYONE

Our last show was Tuesday, June 19th at Caveat, Lower East Side

The theme of the night was "anniversary" 

In honor of our first birthday (!!!), we're celebrating all things "anniversary." Technically an anniversary celebrates something that happened on a certain date in the previous year, but we’re bending the rules. Perhaps we'll hear a story about a one-week anniversary or one-day anniversary. Maybe our storytellers will unlock a memory in their past and have the chance to reflect on the fact this year is the 10 or 20 or 50 year anniversary of becoming a working woman/Royal super-fan/fighter pilot/former smoker. Maybe something memorable happened at an anniversary event they attended, or maybe someone's parents’ wedding anniversaries inspired a funny or poignant story. Regardless of the inspiration, it's party time on the Generation Women stage, and you're all invited to the celebration!

Team 20s: Felicia Fitzpatrick is the Social Media Manager of Playbill. She also hosts and produces “call and response,” a podcast that explores the intersection of blackness and performing arts. Her writing has been featured on Teen Vogue, BuzzFeed, Femsplain and Shine Text, and is the proud owner of NOW That's What I Call Music! albums 4, 7-8, 10 and 16.

Team 30s: Franchesca Ramsey is a social justice advocate, comedian, actor, writer, vlogger, sought-after speaker, and the host of the award-winning MTV web series Decoded. A former writer and correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, she currently has multiple television projects in development. Her first book Well, That Escalated Quickly was published by Grand Central, May 2018.

Team 40s: Robin Gelfenbien is a storyteller, writer, and comedian who has performed on PBS, The Moth, RISK! And Mortified. She’s the Creator and Host of the storytelling series and podcast, “Yum’s the Word,” which features her homemade ice cream cakes. 

Team 50s: Fiona Davis is the bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address. She came to New York as an actor, working on Broadway and off, before enrolling in Columbia Journalism School and eventually settling down as an author of historical fiction. Her third novel, The Masterpiece, comes out in August.

Team 60s: Elizabeth Howard is an author, journalist, consultant and entrepreneur.  She spent eight years at a Fortune 500 company before founding her own consultancy in 1987, Broadbridge International Group. She is a pioneer in the business world, working on issues related to human rights and corporate social responsibility.

Team 70s: Roseann Shaiman became a mother in her 30s, and a practicing psychotherapist in her 40s.  In her 50s, she became a certified yoga instructor.  In her 60s, she became a celebrant joining couples in marriage.  A "storylistener" by vocation, she has been inspired by Generation Women in her 70s to become a fledgling storyteller.  
 

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List.

Thanks everyone!

Our last show was Tuesday, May 29th at Caveat, Lower East Side

It's the 'BEST OF' show!

Hi everyone! As you may have heard, we're turning one-year-old preeeetty soon. To celebrate, we decided to have a "Best Of" show, and invite some of our favorite storytellers back onto the Generation Women stage. These stories made us laugh, cry, question everything, and regret nothing. We can't believe how lucky we've been to have these women grace our stage at all, and we're excited to give you all the chance to experience their stories once more.

Team 20: Madeleine Martin has appeared on Showtime's Californication, Netflix's Hemlock Grove, and has performed in seven Broadway productions. She is Fiona on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, and she is the recipient of the Marian Seldes Most Promising Young Performer Award. The theme of her night was "What I Learned About My Mother."

Team 30: Keisha Zollar is an actor-writer-comedian who has starred in Orange is the New Black, A&E’s Black and White, Comedy Central, Nightcap on PopTV, Middle of the Night, The Today Show, CollegeHumor, and more. The theme of her night was "My First Time Saying No."

Team 40: Jess Rowland is a sound artist, performer, and writer. Her recent escapades include The Disasters, a collection of short fiction, and an exhibit of Compositions for Paper Speakers at Dartmouth College. The theme of her night was "Fake News: What I Stopped Believing."

Team 50: Lois Thompson is a founding member of Comic Diversity, and has performed at Caroline's, Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy, & Stand-Up NY.  She’s been producing & hosting Blacklight Comedy Show at the Brooklyn Moon for 5 years now, and she is looking forward to, for the 4th year in a row, producing & hosting the Brooklyn Pride Celebration Comedy Show. The theme of her night was "Time's Up."

Team 60: Janice Maffei is a playwright and poet. She serves on the board of The Lilly Awards, which celebrates women theatre artists, and is a co-founder of VisionFirst, a consulting firm that helps organizations to think forward, create change and get results. The theme of her night was "My First Time Saying No."

Team 70: Martha Reeves is the winner of the Jack Kerouac Literary Prize at the "Let's Celebrate Kerouac" Celebration in Lowell, Massachusetts and author of computer poems (including "Ready When You Are, Houston") in The Geek Squad Guide to Every Computer Glitch. Martha, a humorist, resides in New York and writes her own material. The theme of her night was "Time's Up."

Team 80: June Duffy became a lawyer at 50+ and retired 5 years ago as Bureau Chief in the office of the New York State Attorney General. Before that, she was, among other things: a theater person, teacher, proof-reader and paralegal, as well as the mother of four fantastic daughters. The theme of her night was "My Alter Ego."

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List.

thanks for a great evening!

Our last show was Wednesday, May 16th at Caveat, Lower East Side

the theme of the night was "the new me"

It’s finally Spring; a time of renewal and the shedding of old skins. This month, we’re inviting our performers to tell a story about a time in their life that they evolved and made a change to who they are: the New Me. The one constant in life is change, so this May, we're reflecting on six stories that highlight personal evolution.

Team 20: Karen Chee is a comedian/writer who contributes to The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Shondaland, the Washington Post, and more. She performs regularly around town (Union Hall, Caveat, UCB, etc.), does sketch comedy with Lo-Fi, and recently opened for Ronny Chieng at Caroline's on Broadway.

Team 30: Isabelle Raphael is an Australian creative director who has worked all over the NY media landscape from Vice to Glamour, The Hollywood Reporter,  Us Weekly, The Daily Mail, amongst many (maybe too many) more.

Team 40: Sally Kohn is one of the leading progressive voices in America today. She is a  CNN political commentator and columnist, writer, activist and host of the podcast STATE OF RESISTANCE.  Her book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity--was published this spring and has been praised as the guide we all need to end the culture of hate and incivility threatening to overtake us.

Team 50: Patricia Glass is a Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor and Portfolio Management Director at major investment bank in Manhattan. A graduate of Brown, she has an MBA from Wharton and an MA from Penn and, most recently, she received her Masters in Classical Art and Archaeology at Yale. Glass has served on many non-profit boards including the Brown Club of New York and Empowers Africa (where in addition to being a trustee, she is their annual benefit auctioneer).

Team 60: Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of seven novels and twenty-seven books for children.  She is also the Fiction Editor of Lilith Magazine. 

Team 70: Susan Rieger published her first novel, The Divorce Paper, at age 67, and her second, The Heirs, at age 70. A graduate of Columbia Law School, she was a residential college dean at Yale and an Associate Provost at Columbia. Lately, she is a felt artisan.

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List

We SOLD OUT! Thanks lovelies!

Our last show was Wednesday, April 25th at Caveat, Lower East Side

THE THEME waS "MY BIGGEST SECRET"

We’ve all got secrets. Maybe it's a real I-know-what-you-did-last-summer secret (what happens at Caveat, stays at Caveat). Maybe it involves kissing a best friend’s boyfriend, or sneaking out after curfew. Or maybe it’s liking being a certain age/weight/race (etc), even when society says we shouldn’t. Whether it’s a confession, confidential, or clandestine, this month at Generation Women, it’s time to spill!

Generation Women is a cross-generational storytelling night in NYC. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s, and her 70s+. Generation Women celebrates and amplifies women's voices and creativity. We're a unique, intimate female literary salon that brings together women of all ages.

Line up:

Team 20: Sasha Frolova is a New York City native, an actor, and a photographer. She has intertwined the two to establish a presence both on the big screen in movies like Red Sparrow and TNT’s upcoming show Snowpiercer and in art, most recently shooting for Marc Jacobs.

Team 30: Sasheer Zamata is an American actor and comedian. A Saturday Night Live alum, Zamata has found success in both the silver and big screens; most recently with a role in the upcoming film I Feel Pretty. Her stand up special, Pizza Mind, is out now.

Team 40: Donnetta Lavinia Grays – raised in Columbia, South Carolina - is a Brooklyn based actor and playwright. Her plays include Last Night and the Night Before, Laid to Rest, and The Review. Grays’s film/TV credits include The Wrester, Book of Henry, Happy!, The Blacklist and Law & Order: SVU.

Team 50: Jillian Medoff is the acclaimed author of four novels. Her latest, This Could Hurt, landed on many “Best of” lists, including Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Amazon and People. She also has a long career in management consulting where she advises HR executives on communication strategies for all aspects of the employee experience.

Team 60: Barbara Field founded Writing Life Stories and is into girl power. She worked for CBS, Harcourt Brace, The Op Ed Project and the Afghan Women's Writing Project. She published widely, including the novel The Deeper, The Bluer. She's glad to be back in NYC, where dreams are made of.

Team 70: Mary Jo Robertiello spent her childhood in Indiana and Connecticut, eight years in Rome, and the rest of her life has been in and out of NYC. Her weekly blog, nymysteries, keeps her discovering her hometown. She self-published her first novel, The Lemrow Mystery and has just finished her second detective procedural, Graphic Lessons .

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List

WE SOLD OUT! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO JOINED US

Our last show was Monday March 26th at Caveat, Lower East Side

the theme WAs "my sliding door moment"

Decisions: we make a bunch of 'em every day (gym or nap? seltzer or wine?). Most are small. Some are bigger. And over the course of a lifetime, some are quite literally life-changing. This month, we explored the one decision that changed our lives, forever.

Generation Women is a cross-generational storytelling night in NYC. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s, and her 70s+. Generation Women celebrates and amplifies women's voices and creativity. We're a unique, intimate female literary salon that brings together women of all ages.

Team 20: Alyssa Coscarelli is Refinery29’s Senior Fashion Market Editor and is a style influencer in her own right. Constantly keeping the pulse on the market, Alyssa will try any trend at least once, covering fashion brands, styling tips, and overall industry happenings for Refinery29. She also shares her city-inspired outfits, inspirations, and adventures daily with her enthusiastic Instagram following.

Team 30: Azita Ardakani is a Canadian Iranian immigrant and a five year transplant to New York City. She founded Lovesocial.org, an award winning digital impact agency, and is now a partner at Honeycomb Portfolio, a female founded impact investment fund.

Team 40: Leyla Martinez is a senior at Columbia University, studying Human Rights. She is also the President/Founder of Beyond the Box Initiative, which is an organization that seeks to eliminate structural barriers to higher education, housing, employment and civic participation for people who have criminal convictions.

Team 50: Julie Klam has published several books, including The Stars in Our Eyes and You Had Me At Woof, and wrote for the VH1 television show Pop-up Video, where she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Class Writing. Currently, she writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the magazines that haven’t folded.

Team 60: Marcia Butler was a professional oboist for twenty-eight years until her retirement in 2008. She is the author of the nationally acclaimed memoir, The Skin Above My Knee, which was listed in “35 OVER 35” as a notable debut author. Her first novel will be published in 2019.

Team 70: Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is the author of Miriam the Medium (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and indie Finalist, Kaylee’s Ghost. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and more. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry, and she teaches writing at UCLA Extension.

Hosted by Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars and The Bucket List

we SOLD OUT! thanks to everyone who joined us