Our last show was 10/13/26
Join us this October at Joe's Pub as we celebrate NERVE: stories of audacity, boldness, and the moment fear stopped getting the final vote. Six women and non-binary storytellers — one from each decade, 20s through 70s — share true stories of walking into rooms they weren't invited to; taking the big swing despite the odds; telling the truth everyone else was tiptoeing around; quitting, leaping, confronting, and confessing. Some acts of nerve are loud and public; some are quiet audacities no one else ever noticed. All of them changed everything.
Don't miss New York's best storytelling night — an evening of heart, humor, and hard-won courage that will leave you ready to find your own nerve!
Featuring:
Team 20s: Ava Roberts is a playwright, songwriter, and screenwriter from New York working as an executive assistant on a Netflix series. Roberts’ own writing appears on stages like 54 Below, Joe's Pub, and The Second City. Her material often explores headstrong women in complex family dynamics, usually through a comedic lens.
Team 30s: Madeleine Martin originated Jean Fordham in Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County and starred in Californication and Hemlock Grove. Her credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, What We Do in the Shadows, and The Good Wife. She voices Fionna in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake and is Assistant Professor of Performance at Florida State University.
Team 40s: A. Hunter is a career strategist, entrepreneur, and author of Dreaming on Purpose, a manifesto for Black women building careers on their own terms. A queer Black woman and advocate for care-centered workplaces, she's spoken at PepsiCo and Blend Labs, and been featured on NBC, CBS, Fast Company, Business Insider, and CNBC.
Team 50s: Molly McCloy is a four-time Moth StorySLAM winner whose memoir Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth won the Book Pipeline contest as well as the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press, her publisher.
Team 60s: Susan Kim is the co-creator of TRUTH BE TOLD, a storytelling evening at NYC’s Ensemble Studio Theatre. She has written plays, documentaries, novels, graphic novels, nonfiction, and kids’ TV. She created and teaches the Sesame Writers’ Room, training and supporting writers in kids’ TV.
Team 70s: Janice Maffei is an entrepreneur, writer, and performer. Host of Funny Over Fifty, Janice ventured into stand up in her 60s. A produced playwright and a published poet, she co-founded VisionFirst, helping teams work better together. Look for her forthcoming book, Reclaiming Plan A, in late 2027.
😘 Hosted and created by Georgia Clark, author of Play It Again, Most Wonderful, and others.