THE IDEASMYTH SALON: Stories on Stage • 20 October 2026

THE IDEASMYTH SALON: Stories on Stage • A Storytelling Variety Show hosted by (Curator • Writer • Coach • Editor • Creative Community Entrepreneur)

FEATURING the following critically acclaimed talent (in alpha order):

🎃 {The Moth Slam Winner (2X) • Int'l 14-City Tour • St. Martin's Memoirist} 🎃 {Bestselling Author + Novelist • Substack: American Freakshow • Documentary Producer} 🎃 {Bestselling Novelist • Fine Artist • Recovering Adman} 🎃 {Singer-Songwriter with 60K+ Streams • Mad (wo)Man • Karaoke Specialist} 🎃 {Cartoonist • The Moth Radio Hour • Guggenheim Fellow} 🎃

NOTE: Actual lineup sequence will follow AGENDA BELOW

🎤 $20 COVER 🍻 $20 DINING MINIMUM (GREAT FULL DINNER + DRINKS MENU) 🥂 SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE ABOUT THE PERFORMERS (LISTED IN LAUNCHING SEQUENCE) 👇

🎃 Flash Rosenberg • (Wit Bit)

^ draws, photographs, writes, and performs. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, who served as the pioneering Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the NY Public Library, where she drew conversations between authors, artists and provocateurs to create "portraits of ideas" in real-time. Her work will be featured in the 2026 nationally touring exhibit "Citizen Artist" curated by the Delaware Art Museum She is a three-time Mainstage Storyteller for The Moth. Creator of "FlashThink Cartoons." Was voted "Funniest Person in Philadelphia" twice in the 90s by "The City Paper" for her public radio spots, "Flash Moments." She was an Academy Award finalist for her experimental short "Pulse of Desire." She taught "Perception Studies" classes for Cooper Union conducted entirely on the NYC subways. Flash Rosenberg Studio is a full-service art, motion picture, merriment, and mischief factory, based in Harlem. She lives with two turtles and infinite questions.

🎃 Glenn Kaplan • "The Happiest Halloween" • (Surreal Short Story)

^ is almost fully recovered from his careers in advertising as an agency creative director and later a client. In his pre-dawn hours, he wrote three thrillers including the New York Times bestseller, Evil Inc. His latest book, Angel of Ambition, won two national independent press awards. He now writes full-time and practices the art making he studied at Bowdoin College, Smith College, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, the Art Students League, and The New York Studio School.

🎃 Nina Burleigh • "Turn Around Don't Drown" • (Novel Teaser)

^ is a a journalist, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of a substack on politics called American Freakshow. A contributing editor at The New Republic and frequent contributor to the New York Times and New York Magazine, her journalism has been published widely including in translation in the Norwegian and Italian press. She's the author of eight books on an array of topics including archaeological forgery, scientists in 18th Century Egypt, James Smithson, Amanda Knox in Italy, and the Trump women, which were reviewed, excerpted or covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, New York Magazine, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, and other media outlets. She was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, Norway, Paris and Italy, traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East. An adjunct professor at NYU's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, Google Scholar says her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.

🎃 James Braly • "Asylum" • (Autobiographical Show Excerpt)

^ is the first two-time winner of The Moth GrandSlam and has contributed autobiographical stories to This American Life and The New York Times. His Off Broadway monologue Life in a Marital Institution: 20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour was a New York Times Critics Pick. The show spawned a fourteen-city national tour produced by Meredith Vieira Productions, a live audio recording that spent twelve weeks on the Amazon Hot 100 Comedy List, and a memoir published by St. Martins Press. In his other professional life, James ghostwrites speeches and books for executives and entrepreneurs – including a couple bestsellers he’d crow about if he hadn’t signed NDAs.

🎃 Diane Louvel • "Glitter Crash" • (Album Preview)

^ • Growing up in two epicentres of culture, fashion, and music (New York City and Paris), it isn’t a surprise that Diane Louvel ended up in the arts. Louvel started singing at a young age and writing songs in college inspired by the folk-rock musicians of the 70s. Louvel's voice is reminiscent of Gillian Welch with sprinkles of Neko Case; her songs are melody driven stories inspired by relationships, work and the comedy of life. She released an album "Above and Beyond" in 2023 which was reviewed by independent music outlets including V13, Guitar Girl Magazine, Playy Magazine. Louvel is currently working on a new EP and has a day job in advertising. Reivews: Guitar Girl Magazine: "Louvel’s sound echoes with organic authenticity, highlighted by a voice reminiscent of Joni Mitchell crossed with Ethel Cain." Citrus Magazine: "Musically she glides through the decades of classic folk and country stylings.  All-in-all this is a very solid outing". Certified Bop: "Diane’s music is a poignant blend of nostalgia and innovation."

🎃 Victoria C. Rowan • Curator + Host

^: Curator • Writer • Coach • Editor • Creative Community Entrepreneur

Curating + Hosting: NYC: 92nd St. Y • The National Arts Club • Pangea • KGB Red Room, Mediabistro.com Northwestern Connecticut: Spring Hill Arts Gathering/ Vineyards • Judy Black Park Memorial Park & Gardens • The Ideas Depot • The Stone Church + Meetinghouse

Writing: The New York Times • The Financial Times • New York Magazine • Time Out New York + dozens of other domestic and international media outlets

Clients: Support clients as coach, editor, dramaturg; a partial listing of critically and commercially acclaimed writers + other outstanding creatives

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