KGB Bar

Hosted by Glenn Raucher.

Glenn is the former Literary Arts Director at the West Side YMCA Writer’s Voice, a position he held from September 2003 until February 2008. In his capacity as Literary Arts Director, he curated and hosted a visiting authors series, presenting over 200 authors over a 4 1/2 year span, making it one of the most active reading series in New York.  He is currently the Theater Manager of the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, and is currently fomenting a Master Plan for his own writing program.

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John Quilty is a graduate of University of Delaware’s journalism school where he was a Dupont Scholar and Rhodes Scholar nominee. He currently lives in Hell’s Kitchen, was a Guardian Angel, appeared Off-Broadway for two years in “The Countess”, is profiled in Morgan Spurlock’s film “What Would Jesus Buy?” and toured England last summer as a guest of the Arts Council of Great Britain, playing in 12 theatres from Liverpool to Brighton

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Films Brette Goldstein has cast have won awards and been official selections at Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, Hamptons, Woodstock, Woods Hole, Clermont-Ferrand, DC Shorts, Philadelphia, Boston, Austin, Great Lakes, Sante Fe and the IFP Film Market. She has produced at three regional theatres, cast over forty independent films and one hundred plays, and was the resident casting director at Washington, DC’s Folger Elizabethan Theatre for ten seasons. Brette is the former Co-Producing Director of Washington Jewish Theatre, Production Manager at Washington Shakespeare Co., and Associate Producer of the 17th Annual Washington Theatre Festival. In addition to casting indie films, commercials and industrials, she coaches audition technique, as well as consulting actors on marketing and general business management. Brette teaches acting/ audition technique at several professional studios in New York City, as well as at Muhlenberg College, University of Maryland and Montclair State University. She has also be the on-set coach for several films. Brette is currently coaching the star of the A&E series Runaway Squad, as well as human rights activists and journalists in the financial technology sector. Brette had no idea she could write for shit until Glenn Raucher told her she could. She still doesn’t really believe him.

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Allen Hoey has published six collections of poems and three novels; Once Upon a Time at Blanche’s is his most recent collection of poems. His 2008 collection of poems, Country Music, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books include A Fire in the Cold House of Being (selected by Galway Kinnell for the 1985 Camden Poetry Award), What Persists, Provençal Light & Other Poems, and The Precincts of Paradise, all poetry collections, and Chasing the Dragon: A Novel about Jazz, Voices Beyond the Dead, and On the Demon’s Trail, a mystery. His poems and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, among them The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review. His poem “A Thousand Prostrations” was included in Essential Zen (HarperCollins) and another poem, “Essay on Snow,” was included in The Best American Spiritual Writing of 2004 (Houghton Mifflin). In 1993 he accepted the Precepts as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist. He was 2001 Bucks County Poet Laureate and currently serves as Director of the Bucks County Poet Laureate Program. He received a 2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife, Debra, and their dogs in an 18th century stone cottage on an old horse farm with a view of Bowman’s Hill.