THE IDEASMYTH SALON: Stories on Stage • 28 October 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:

🧶 {The Moth Slam Winner (2X!) • Int'l 14-City Tour • St. Martin's Memoirist} 🧶 {International Soloist: Algonquin Hotel • PS122 • City Center} 🧶 {Cartoonist • The Moth Radio Hour • Guggenheim Fellow} 🧶 {Anthologized Fiction Writer • MacDowell • Essayist for Top National Glossies} 🧶 {Moth Mainstage & Radio Hour • Generation Women - StoryBoom! • WritersRead} 🧶

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

^ is an “Attention Span for Hire” who draws, photographs, writes, and performs. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, who served as the pioneering Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the NY Public Library. She is a three-time Mainstage Storyteller for The Moth. Voted Funniest Person in Philadelphia by The City Paper for her daily "Flash Moments" on WXPN. Academy Award finalist for her experimental short, "Pulse of Desire." Flash Rosenberg Studio is a full-service art, motion picture, merriment, and mischief factory, based in Harlem. She has two turtles and infinite questions.

🧶 Angela Derecas Taylor • "Angelina's Greenwich Village" (Family Fine Dining Memoir)

^ grew up in 1960’s Greenwich Village in Angelina's Restaurant, an establishment founded in 1936 by her great-grandmother. The restaurant remained owned and operated by the women on her maternal side for 55 years, and lives on today through many of her stories and shared recipes. Angela has been a featured storyteller on the Retired from careers in hospitality, and municipal government, Angela is a certified yoga teacher & sound healer who spends time in NYC, Florida and Italy, organizing yoga retreats and workshops for writers and artists through her partnership with Key to the Castle Workshop, LLC. Married for almost three decades, she and her husband are the proud parents of two adult sons, and a rescue cat named Mario Plomo. More:

🧶 James Braly • "The Monthly Nut" (Monologue)

^ 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.

🧶 Pamela Bol Riess •  "The Reclamation Project" (Novel Excerpt)

^ is the CEO of PBR Executive Search, a boutique firm she founded 20 plus years ago that recruits C-suite leaders in the nonprofit sector. Clients include Museum of the City of New York, The Moth, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Whitney Museum, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Before becoming a headhunter, Pamela identified first and foremost as a writer, graduating from Brown University with honors in creative writing and earning a masters degree from the fiction writing program at New York University. There, she studied with EL Doctorow, Bharati Mukherjee, Paula Fox, and James Lasdun. Booker Prize winning author Peter Carey was her thesis advisor. In addition to the novel she will be reading from this evening, Pamela has written articles about sex and relationships for Mademoiselle, Glamour, and Details, among others, as well as fiction and essays in anthologies including Girls and The Honeymoon Is Over.

🧶 Lisa Daehlin • "Moons & Croons & Knitting Wheels" (Operatic Yarns)

^ is no stranger to the cabaret stage, having performed incarnations of her show From Classical to Cabaret: The songs of Poulenc, Porter, Satie, and Weill in venues as varied as the underground club to the concert hall. Lisa produced and directed OperaKnit Cabaret at Performance Space 122 (PS122, NYC) and her one-woman show Twisted Stitch: Songs of Love and Knitting was featured in the Classical to Jazz Festival at Cornelia Street Café (NYC), weaving together songs of Grieg, Schubert, Yeston and a world premier cycle of songs written for her voice by Stefania de Kenessey.

She performs often as a “Opera Chanteuse”, showcasing her wide range of repertoire in a variety of styles and settings, including: as a soloist at City Center, with a dance company at Lincoln Center, in the Algonquin's Oak Room (singing Dorothy Parker songs, naturally), as a church musician, and as a choir member with the renowned Concordia College Choir in Minnesota and, with the Riverside Church Choir in New York City; in addition she has performed in NYC at St. Paul's Chapel, Interchurch Center, Cornelia Street Café, and The Players Club, plus European concerts in Italy, Germany, and in Scandinavia as an invited singer for the International Edvard Grieg Society in Bergen, Norway.

On top of her extraordinary opera career, Lisa has been chosen as recipient of a Cultural Grant Award by the American Scandinavian Society. Awarded a Masters Degree in Music and Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, she operates a private voice studio in New York City.

🧶 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 • 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

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