Join us at Under St. Marks for an evening of true, personal stories about science.
Hosted by Erin Barker and Brad Lawrence.
Doors open at 6:30 pm; show begins at 7 pm.
Stories by:
Brian C. Lorio is a lecturer in the Department of Speech, Communications, and Theater Arts at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. He teaches public speaking as well as various communication studies courses. At BMCC, Brian has taken an active role in his department’s storytelling initiatives and served as curator and host for the college’s storytelling programming at PAC NYC.
Brian’s work as a documentary photographer has been the focus of three solo exhibitions and has been included in several New Jersey shows in addition to a book celebrating The Garden State. Dissent Magazine, The New York Times, and the New Jersey State Archives featured his images which often cover social justice movements.
Brian was proudly raised in Davenport, Iowa and resides in Montclair, New Jersey.
Caelinn Aisling Ní Bhroin is an Irish actor, writer, and devisor based in Brooklyn. Since moving to New York last year, she has worked in Fundraising and Development at Irish Arts Center, hosted the Irish storytelling night Seanchoíche, and acted in an Off-Broadway production at the Chain Theatre.
As a graduate of Trinity College Dublin with a BA in Drama and Sociology, Caelinn is passionate about community-based performance and storytelling that lives somewhere between intimacy and disruption. She recently hosted and performed at the Irish-language event “Cailín Lofa” (Rotten Girl), a club night celebrating indigenous culture and aimed to decolonize the female body through Irish-language rap about sex, shame, and autonomy.
With experience in both theatre and film, Caelinn is drawn to vulnerable, story-forward work and is very excited to be a part of this event.
Bimini L. Wright is a writer, performer, and actor based in Brooklyn. She grew up in the tropical rainforests of Australia before trading it for the concrete jungle of New York. Her work spans theater, journalism, comedy, and live performance, with stories that blend humor, vulnerability, and sharp observation. She is also, at times, a professional mermaid and the reigning Miss Subways 2025. When she’s not onstage or on the page, she can be found crafting something weird and hanging out with her adopted pet pigeon.
Adair Heitmann, BFA, award-winning storyteller, author, poet, educator, and artist performs her true personal stories with Generation Women, True Tales Live, Tell Me Another, and Northeast Storytelling. She received a Storytelling World Honor Award, National Federation of Press Women First Place Awards, Connecticut Press Club First Place Awards, and a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant. Her poems, essays, and prose are published internationally in books and anthologies. After intense and varied careers in art, design, academia, marketing for corporate and nonprofit arenas, holistic health consulting, high tech, and digital marketing for cultural centers she is now Poet-in-Residence teaching poetry in under-resourced elementary schools. In addition, Adair leads creative writing and storytelling workshops at national conferences and local libraries. She is working on a book titled, “Water-Marked: A Story of Loss, Redemption, and Transformation.”
Justine Ang Fonte, M.Ed, MPH is the child of Philippine immigrants and an award-winning sex educator, author, and professor based in New York City. She received her Master’s in Education in Teaching from the University of Hawai’i and her Master’s in Public Health in Sexuality from Columbia University. She has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, Glamour, and the BBC and Hulu docuseries, Planet Sex. Justine is the author and voice of the Audible Original, How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex and is the co-editor of the book, Fundamental Concepts and Critical Developments in Sex Education.