Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about self discovery - sometimes painful, sometimes wonderful - and always amazing - at Caveat, NYC!
Hosted by Diana Li and Paula Croxson at Caveat NYC. Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm.
In person and livestreamed. Early bird tickets available until until July 7, 7:00pm.
Stories by:
Julie Piñero is a writer, audio producer and a multimedia storyteller. She’s best known for her audio piece “Delejos”, which won the 2024 Audio Nonfiction Award at the Tribeca Festival. She produced the 2023 iHeart podcast “Who Killed JFK?” co-hosted by Rob Reiner and Soledad O’Brien. She co-story edited the podcast with Reiner, and it won a Signal Award, hit Apple’s Top 10 podcasts of the year and reached #1 on Apple Podcasts. Previously, she produced narrative non-fiction podcasts at Audible. She was also a video journalist at HuffPost. Her two solo performances, “Delejos” (2021) and “Hum” (2023) were both profiled by the Smithsonian Channel in 2023. “Delejos” was covered by the LA Times, Playbill and Insider, and “Hum” won two performance residencies and debuted at Caveat Theater in 2023.
Ann Chunharakchote (she/her) is a NY-based comedian and writer from Thailand. Her solo show, "Asian Divorce," made its international debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to positive reviews. The show’s crowdfunding campaign received contributions from Jason Reitman and Ronny Chieng. Ann was invited to participate in The Thousand Miles Project, a UCP TV writing incubator program led by Soo Hugh (Pachinko). She is a 2025 ATX TV Pitch Competition finalist and Pitch Lab participant with her one-hour thriller comedy, Killer of Your Dreams. Ann made her playwriting debut with Chef May and Bam, developed during Nana Dakin's Project YZ residency with Yangtze Repertory Theatre.
Jiawen Huang is a 5th year Psychology graduate student working in Columbia Dynamic Perception and Memory lab. He studies how prior knowledge provides a scaffold for prediction and memory. He grew up in China, and did his undergrad at University College London where he scanned people watching movies in fMRI scanner. When he is not doing research, he can be found dancing salsa, practicing Spanish, and whittling wood carvings, all of which he started doing this past year.
XiuXiu (pronounced sho sho) is a bilingual storyteller and content creator, born in Sichuan and based in New York City. By day, she collects quotes, jokes, and odd moments; by night, she sometimes shapes them into stories. She has shared the stage with fellow Mandarin-speaking performers and comedians across NYC, bringing humor and heart to audiences through cultural blends. XiuXiu believes in the magic of impermanent hair colors, the quiet power of observation, and the enduring charm of laughter — especially when shared.
Tyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her debut novel, Amphibian, is a coming-of-age story about the ecstatic pains of girlhood. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, followed her childhood as the daughter of an international pot smuggler and federal fugitive. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, British Vogue, The Guardian, National Geographic, LitHub, Vice, Electric Literature, and Condé Nast Traveler, amongst others. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook, Good Life Project, and Radiotopia's Criminal. She is also the creator of Reading the City, a weekly newsletter of bookish events taking place around New York City. Tyler now lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Find her at tylerwetherall.com.