Story District’s Top Shelf {SOLD OUT}

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Story District’s Top Shelf {SOLD OUT}

Weather update: Show will go on as scheduled. Doors open at 6:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. General seating. Avoid fees by purchasing at Lincoln or 9:30 Club box office in person (only $1 per ticket extra when you do that. Check their websites for hours.)

We are returning to the the historic Lincoln Theatre to celebrate the best of stories of the year with these fantastic storytellers

KATY BARRETT • DIA BÙI • SCOTT HOLLINGSWORTH • MIKE KANE • MEG KAYS • JOSEPH PRICE • NICK RANDHAWA • CAITLIN REILLY

Thanks to our judges for screening the top 16 choosing these final eight:

Phill Branch – Top Shelf Alum, Howard Professor, Filmmaker (check out “Searching for Shaniqua”) on HBO. http://www.phillbranch.com/
Jenn Tress – Storyteller, author (“You’re Not Pretty Enough”)
Annalisa Dias- Co-Founder, Washington DC Coalition for Theatre & Social Justice; Producing Playwright, The Welders
Wayne Manigo – co-creator of Washington DC Comedy Writers Group

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST
At its best, Story District is a spellbinding night of spoken word: Average people onstage telling true-life stories of love, high school foibles, childhood vacations or restaurant jobs, delivered without notes and without a net. Some provoke knowing laughter; others reduce the room to silence. Your average Story District show is very good, but theTop Shelf performance should be a knockout: A panel of judges have selected their favorite stories from a year’s worth of shows and invited their authors back for a greatest-hits show. Tales of haunting, booze and courtship are all on the docket: Truly something for everyone.

ABOUT THE PROCESS
For those of you new to this show, we screen and score all the stories that have been told on the Story District stage over the last 12 months (Nov 2015 thru Oct 2016) — that’s 160 stories. We — the Story District faculty — narrow that down to 16 nominees which are then screened and scored by a panel of independent judges who determine the final 8.

January 14 2017

Details

Date: January 14, 2017
Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Venue

The Lincoln Theatre

1215 U St NW
Washington, DC 20009 United States

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