Name: Porchlight, a Storytelling Series, with Beth Lisick & Arline Klatte and guests Derrick Brown, Ophira Eisenberg, Shelley McClendon, Frank Portman and Phoebe Robinson
Start: 2015-01-25T20:00:00-0800
End: 2015-01-25T21:30:00-0800

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Porchlight, a Storytelling Series, with Beth Lisick & Arline Klatte and guests Derrick Brown, Ophira Eisenberg, Shelley McClendon, Frank Portman and Phoebe Robinson

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Porchlight has been showcasing San Francisco storytellers since 2002. Founded by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick as a way of getting people onstage to tell their true stories, the shows continue to attract new audiences and storytellers each month at the Verdi Club and Hemlock Tavern. In addition to collaborating each year with Sketchfest, Porchlight has worked with the San Francisco Film Festival, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Bay Area Science Festival, the Storymoja Hay Festival in Nairobi and Shakespeare and Co. in Paris. Their popular podcast lets people all over the world get a little piece of SF. $20 21+

Performers

Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte is the co-host of the successful San Francisco-based storytelling show, Porchlight.

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is a writer and actor. She is the author of five books and has appeared in films screened at Cannes, Sundance, and the San Francisco International Film Festival.Her books include the memoir collection "Yokohama Threeway" and "Other Small Shames," the New York Times bestselling... Read More →

Derrick Brown

Derrick c. Brown is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent presses in the country”, Write Bloody Publishing... Read More →

Frank Portman

Frank Portman, better known by the pseudonym Dr. Frank, is a musician, singer, guitarist, and author. He is the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience, and has remained the only consistent member of the band since... Read More →

Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg is the host of NPR's Ask Me Another. A familiar face in the comedy world, Eisenberg moved to New York in 2001 from Canada and performs stand-up regularly at comedy clubs in the city as well as headlines across the United States, Canada and Europe. She tours as a host... Read More →

Phoebe Robinson

According to Serial Optimist, NYC-based stand up-comedian and writer Phoebe Robinson "is brilliant and able to critique some really complex concepts in a sentence or two. Bask in it, people." Which is precisely what Flavorwire is trying to get the public to do when it listed her as... Read More →

Shelley McClendon

Shelley McLendon lives in Portland, Oregon where she is the creative force behind Bad Reputation Productions. She is a part of improv troupe The Liberators and sketch comedy duo, The Aces. She is also the proud owner of a Bajaj Chetak scooter, which she plans on learning how to ride... Read More →

Sunday January 25, 2015 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST
Verdi Club

Storytelling

SF Sketchfest 2015