The Moth Mainstage visits Pittsburgh again with maybe its very diverse cast right here yet. The new York-oriented phenomenon features people advising their stories, instead of cards. Brand new Aug. twenty-five Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures payment called Constant: Tales of your own Hopeless is managed of the comedian Rudy Hurry (Def Funny Jam). Storytellers include Kimberly Reed, a great transsexual New york-created filmmaker just who formerly is an effective Montana senior high school quarterback titled Paul McKerrow; Said Sayrafiezadeh, composer of acclaimed memoir Whenever Skateboards Might be Free, on the expanding right up from inside the Squirrel Mountain in the mid-eighties because man from a keen Iranian dad and you will Jewish-Western mom, one another socialist activists; going to comedic storyteller Elna Baker, writer of The York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween night Moving; and you may veteran Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Sally Kalson. Then there’s Sala Udin, whoever “impossible” tale boasts a youth to your pre-Civic Arena Lower Hill; joining new Freedom Cyclists new out of senior school, when you look at the 1961; lifestyle within the political activism in addition to Black colored Arts Way, including an earlier union with playwright August Wilson; a stretch inside the government jail; and you can 10 years on Pittsburgh Area Council. Continua a leggere