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Stories on the Lawn
Thanks a Lot
Moth-Style Storytelling at the Neill-Cochran House Museum
Thursday, November 13 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Doors at 7:00, Performance at 7:30
Tickets
$15 General | $10 Student | $0 NCHM Member
Join us for a night of Moth-style true personal stories that come with a heaping helping of gratitude. You’ll be thankful that you joined the fun.
Tickets:
$15 for general admission tickets, $10 for students, and free for NCHM Members. Admission includes complimentary cocktails for attendees over 21. All proceeds from Stories on the Lawn support the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Free parking is available behind the Museum.
storytellers
Kate Caldwell - Storyteller
Kate Caldwell is a performer and writer in Austin, TX with a BA in Theatre and Dance from UT Austin. She has been in a litany of plays, sketch troupes, and storytelling shows over the years. Most recently she served as the artistic director for Testify, a storytelling show and organization, from its inception in 2013 until 2021, when she had a baby but still had to work full time. She's still figuring out that whole "balance" thing. We'll see. Kate hates bios, but loves fried chicken and whiskey.
L.B. Deyo - Storyteller
L.B. Deyo is the author of Invisible Frontier: Exploring the tunnels, ruins & rooftops of hidden New York and the play Apprehension. He's acted in such Austin plays as The Intergalactic Nemesis, Cookie Cutter, and Dance, Cupcake, Dance.
Nancy L. Glass - Storyteller
Dr. Nancy Glass has published in the Missouri Review, in The Intima, in Pulse, in Examined Life, in Persimmon Tree, in Amaranth, and others. She won the 2022 Writer’s League of Texas Manuscript Contest in Nonfiction and was runner-up for the 2024 Perkoff Prize at the Missouri Review. She practiced pediatric anesthesia and hospice medicine, retiring as Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in 2022. She received her MFA (Writing) from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2023 and is completing a book of pediatric hospice essays. She knits incessantly and violates the privacy of birds all over the world.
Chris Mack - Storyteller
Chris Mack is an engineer who moved to Austin in 1990 and couldn’t figure out how to leave. He taught at the University of Texas part time for 25 years and every now and then starts up a software company. He’s married to a story teller, and this avocation appears to be contagious. He is not exactly a YouTube celebrity, but his channel LithoGuru has over two million views, and his resemblance to Count Dooku has been commented upon more than once.
Susan Mack - Storyteller and Co-Producer
A regular on the Austin storytelling performance scene, Susan Mack has more than 20 years experience with corporate and personal storytelling.
Shana Merlin - Storyteller
A TEDx Speaker, Shana Merlin is the founder of The Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation, opened in 2003 to offer classes in improv, storytelling, stand-up, and musical comedy. Shana is also a leading presenter and trainer in applied improv, using the tools and techniques from improvisational comedy to help businesses be better at collaboration, communication, creativity, and team-building. Some of her clients have included Amazon, T-Mobile, Bumble, Methodist Medical, Hoka and Deloitte.
In addition to appearing across the country and abroad at improv festivals in Amsterdam, New York, Seattle, Montreal, and Hawaii, she has also had teaching positions at St. Edwards University, Texas A&M College of Medicine and the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Shana lives in Austin, Texas with her partner and two kids.
Mike Mournighan - Emcee and Co-Producer
Mike Mournighan is an Austin based improvisor, twitch streamer, and storyteller. He is also the newest co-producer of Stories on the Lawn! During his lifelong journey to become funnier, Mike tripped over storytelling and fell in love with the art's sincerity and deep human connection. Since that accident, he's won the Austin Story Slam, become a teacher, and begun coaching in the local scene. Mike manages www.storytellingaustin.com as a free aggregator for local events and he'd love to hear your story.
