KGB Bar

With your hostess, Kathleen Warnock

Andrew Altenburg contributes television commentary for ExtraCriticum.com, as well as on his own blog, www.andrewaltenburg.com, which includes not-boring personal stories. He also writes a regular blog for the Thirteen/WNET Facebook fan page. Librettist ("The Big Orange Splot - The Musical") and playwright ("Saturday Night at the Lucky Spear") and storyteller (Barnes & Noble) Andrew has been around the block a few times and has the scars to prove it which he’ll show you for a buck or two (hey, anything in this economy).

Jacob M. Appel’s short fiction has appeared in more than 80 literary journals including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Florida Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Raritan, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, and Threepenny Review. His prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize, and many other prizes. His stage plays have been performed at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Adrienne Theatre (Philadelphia), Detroit Repertory Theatre, Heller Theater (Tulsa), Curtain Players (Columbus), Epilogue Players (Indianapolis), Open State Theatre (Pittsburgh) and Intentional Theatre (New London). Jacob teaches fiction at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop and bioethics at New York University.

Michael M. Lynch and Steve Kaufman have been working together for the last 15 years. They were both members of the rock theatrical group The Hot Peaches. Together they have written and composed two the shows, About Face: Gay, Black, And From The Bronx, and No Fats, No Fems; A World Of Exclusions. No Fats played at La Mama to critical success. Their new show is called Living On The Real: This Childs Journey, which they will start recording soon.

CHRIS WEIKEL is a playwright and performer living in New York City who is cute as a bug, single and not a bit desperate. Really. His play PIG TALE: AN URBAN FAERIE STORY, which recently closed after a successful run at the Wings Theatre produced by TOSOS, will be featured this spring in the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival. Erin Go Bragh! He is a founding member of the revived TOSOS which has previously produced his WEIKELWORKS, SPEAKING PARTS, GARETH AND LYNETTE, and PENNY PENNIWORTH ("must see” show - 2003 FringeNYC Festival). PENNY PENNIWORTH was subsequently performed by MadLab theatre company in Ohio. Weikel has been a featured reader at “Drunken! Careening! Writers!” At KGB Bar, and several of his works have been published by United Stages. Chris is the 2007 recipient of the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Gay Playwrights, the 2008 recipient of the Irv Zarkower award from Hunter College and is proud to be a 2008-09 Dramatists Guild Fellow.

D!C!W!

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be: excellent, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and don’t run more than 15 minutes each.