Live Wire with Sarah Marshall, Camille Dungy, Angela Nissel, and Kassa Overall
Schedule
Thu May 14 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
The Alberta Rose Theatre | Portland, OR
Full event information can be found on our website:https://www.livewireradio.org/live-shows/2026514
Live Wire is thrilled to have Sarah Marshall, Camille Dungy, Angela Nissel, and Kassa Overall for our next show!
Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show based in Portland, Oregon. Hosted by Luke Burbank and announced by Elena Passarello, the show artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all kinds of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Live Wire champions discovery by producing engaging, spirited, and genuine live and listening experiences for a local and national audience.
About the guests:
Sarah Marshall is a writer, podcaster, and media critic focused on setting straight our collective memory—or at least getting to the bottom of why we believe and in turn define ourselves by popular narrative and myth. Why is the maligned woman a staple of our news media? Why do we believe that serial killers are brilliant? How do we keep stumbling into all these moral panics? These are some of the questions that propel Sarah forward. She is the host of the popular modern history podcast "You’re Wrong About," which has been highlighted in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Time Magazine. Her latest project, "The Devil You Know," is an 8-part podcast with the CBC that explores the tangled web of the Satanic Panic and its continued impact in culture today.
Camille T. Dungy is the author of "Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden." "Soil" was named book of the month by Hudsons Booksellers, received the 2024 Award of Excellence in Garden and Nature Writing from The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, and was on the short list for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Dungy has also written four collections of poetry, including "Trophic Cascade," winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection "Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She edited "Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry," the first anthology to bring African American environmental poetry to national attention. She also co-edited the "From the Fishouse" poetry anthology and served as assistant editor for "Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade." Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, 100 Best African American Poems, Best American Essays, The 1619 Project, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, over 40 other anthologies, plus dozens of venues including The New Yorker, Poetry, Literary Hub, The Paris Review, and Poets.org. You may know her as the host of "Immaterial," a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Dungy’s honors include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, an Honorary Doctorate from SUNY ESF, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.
Angela Nissel is author of the national bestselling comedic memoirs "The Broke Diaries" and "Mixed," and a prolific television producer and writer whose credits include "The Other Black Girl," "Mixed-ish," and "Scrubs." Prior to her television career, she had illustrious careers as a temp for the IRS, a stripper, and a "sleep apnea auditor" watching people snore overnight in a local hospital. She currently lives in Los Angeles and enjoys beating people half her age in video games. In her new poignant and hilarious memoir, Angela chronicles her odyssey as she tries to remain "like her mother" in the face of grief. Delightfully self-deprecating, unsparing in its honesty, yet filled with wacky humor and joy, "Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom is Dead" is an unforgettable portrait of love, yearning, loss, and resilience that reveals the indelible power of introspection to save our lives.
Kassa Overall is a drummer, rapper, and producer redefining the boundaries of jazz. Raised in Seattle, he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory before touring with Jon Batiste, Vijay Iyer, and Gary Bartz, among others. On "CREAM," his fourth solo album, he pays homage to the twin passions of his youth—hip-hop and jazz drums in the tradition of Elvin Jones—transforming beloved songs from the 90s and aughts into timeless standards that are rhythmically adventurous, witty, and often sublime. He has appeared on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series, and his live performances have drawn praise from Gilles Peterson, Thom Yorke, and Iggy Pop. He is a 2025 recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation Prize.
Where is it happening?
The Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St,Portland,OR,United States
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