THE IDEASMYTH SALON: Stories on Stage • 16 December 2025

THE IDEASMYTH SALON: Stories on Stage • A Storytelling Variety Show hosted by (Curator • Writer • Coach • Editor • Creative Community Entrepreneur )

FEATURING the following critically acclaimed talent (in alpha order):

🎁 {The Moth Slam Winner (2X!) • Int'l 14-City Tour • St. Martin's Memoirist} 🎁 {1 Million Views (TikTok) • "House Concert Series" (PBS) • Main Songwriter "Sidewalk Series" (Berklee College of Music) }🎁 {NY International Fringe • Bay Street Theater (Sag Harbor) • American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora (Miami)} 🎁 {Cartoonist • The Moth Radio Hour • Guggenheim Fellow} 🎁 MORE TALENT INFO TO COME 🎁

NOTE: Actual lineup sequence will follow AGENDA BELOW

🎤 $20 COVER 🍻 $20 DINING MINIMUM (GREAT FULL DINNER + DRINKS MENU) 🥂 SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE ABOUT THE PERFORMERS (LISTED IN LAUNCHING SEQUENCE) 👇

🎁 Flash Rosenberg • (Monologue)

^ draws, photographs, writes, and performs. Founder of Flash Artists, a troupe of over 40 costumed artists who created interactive arts experiences and photo souvenirs for every conceivable kind of event. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, who served as the pioneering Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the NY Public Library, where she drew conversations between authors, artists and provocateurs to create "portraits of ideas" in real-time. Her work will be featured in the 2026 nationally touring exhibit "Citizen Artist" curated by the Delaware Art Museum She is a three-time, Mainstage Storyteller for The Moth. Creator of FlashThink Cartoons. Voted "Funniest Person in Philadelphia" in the 1990s by The City Paper for her public radio spots, "Flash Moments." An Academy Award finalist for her experimental short "Pulse of Desire." She taught "Perception Studies" classes for Cooper Union conducted entirely on the NYC subways. Flash Rosenberg Studio is a full-service art, motion picture, merriment, and mischief factory, based in Harlem. She lives with two turtles and infinite questions.

🎁 Adelaide Mestre • "I Wish It So" (Musical Memoir Teaser)

^ is an award-winning actress, singer, writer and solo show performer. In her work, she mines the autobiographical material of her anamalous childhood growing up in an anomalous family of artists and other big personalities. She has performed in numerous theatrical productions, musicals, cabarets, and films, including Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives.Adelaide has written and performed several solo shows including: Dead Mosquito at Emerging Artists Theatre's One Woman Standing Festival and Out of Step at Where Eagles Dare Theatre. Her ten-minute play, It’s My Amygdala was produced at the Estrogenius Festival and the SoHo Playhouse. Her full-length musical memoir, Top Drawer premiered in the New York International Fringe Festival and has since enjoyed multiple productions at theatres in New York and cities around the country. In 2017 Adelaide received the Bill Bowers Award of Excellence at the SaraSolo Fesival in Sarasota, Fl and in 2018 performed to sold out shows in Miami at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora. Most recently her show was produced at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor and the Southampton Cultural Center. www.AdelaideMestre.com

🎁 James Braly • "The Blue Box " (A Secret Santa Story)

^ is the first two-time winner of The Moth GrandSlam and has contributed autobiographical stories to This American Life and The New York Times. His Off Broadway monologue Life in a Marital Institution: 20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour was a New York Times Critics Pick. The show spawned a fourteen-city national tour produced by Meredith Vieira Productions, a live audio recording that spent twelve weeks on the Amazon Hot 100 Comedy List, and a memoir published by St. Martins Press. In his other professional life, James ghostwrites speeches and books for executives and entrepreneurs – including a couple bestsellers he’d crow about if he hadn’t signed NDAs.

🎁 Harper Lovey • "The Holidays with C'est Lovey" (Bedroom Pop Holiday Set)

^'s C'est Lovey wants to spend the night with you. On a cold winter night come listen to some heart-warming music to feel cozy and understood. A bedroom pop band that is sure to blow your pajamas off.

C’est Lovey considers music the most powerful medium to foster emotional understanding. Together this duo has been writing and performing music together for over 5 years. In 2020 they were featured on PBS and have been mentioned in multiple articles over the years. In 2024 they released their first full album followed by a headlining album release concert.

🎁 Victoria C. Rowan • Curator + Host

^: Curator • Writer • Coach • Editor • Creative Community Entrepreneur

Curating + Hosting: NYC: 92nd St. Y • The National Arts Club • Pangea • KGB Red Room, Mediabistro.com Northwestern Connecticut: Spring Hill Arts Gathering/ Vineyards • Judy Black Park Memorial Park & Gardens • The Ideas Depot • The Stone Church + Meetinghouse

Writing: The New York Times • The Financial Times • New York Magazine • Time Out New York + dozens of other domestic and international media outlets

Clients: Support clients as coach, editor, dramaturg; a partial listing of critically and commercially acclaimed writers + other outstanding creatives

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Host or Publisher Curator: Victoria C. Rowan • Creatrix • Ideasmyth