The Moth in Toronto, Between Worlds Mainstage. Photo: Adetona Omokanye
For the first time ever, The Moth and Guild Hall partner to present Big Night: The Moth in East Hampton, a powerful evening of storytelling where five everyday people—who craft their true experiences into 10-minute tales with the help of Moth directors—share true personal stories without notes.
The team behind the Peabody Award-Winning The Moth Radio Hour, and WEBBY Award-Winning The Moth Podcast brings signature two-act Mainstage to East Hampton’s iconic Guild Hall. The night will feature a line-up of storytellers, including famed Playwright Doug Wright, on-screen personality Jameer Pond, acclaimed chef Arlene Stewart and others sharing tales of glory or defeat, win or lose, the culmination of forces both within reach and beyond control; come celebrate a Big Night. The night will be hosted by noted standup comic, writer, Moth storyteller and host Ophira Eisenberg. and This show is directed by The Moth’s executive producer, Sarah Austin Jenness and presented in partnership with Guild Hall and WSHU Public Radio.
ABOUT THE MOTH
The Moth is a nonprofit dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. For over 27 years, The Moth has presented over 60,000 true personal stories, told live, without notes, to standing-room-only audiences and virtually around the globe. Renowned for showcasing a broad range of human experiences, The Moth produces approximately 600 live and virtual shows each year and has an ongoing presence in 27 cities worldwide. Additionally, The Moth runs storytelling workshops for students, teachers, adults, advocates, and professionals from around the world through its Education, Community, Global and MothWorks Programs.
The Moth Podcast—the 2020 Webby People’s Voice Award Winner for Best Podcast Series— is downloaded nearly 100 million times a year, and each week, the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, produced by Jay Allison at Atlantic Public Media and presented by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, is heard on over 575 public radio stations. The Moth released its first card deck, A Game of Storytelling (Clarkson-Potter), and its second podcast, the Webby Award-Winning, Grown, is available on all major streaming platforms. To date, The Moth has published five critically acclaimed books: New York Times Bestseller The Moth: 50 True Stories (Hachette Books, September 2013), All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown (Crown Archetype, March 2017) — described as “wonderful” by NYT’s Michiko Kakutani and New York Times Bestsellers Occasional Magic: True Stories of Defying the Impossible (Crown Archetype, March 2019), How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth (Crown Archetype, April 2022) and its newest book, A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go (Crown Archetype, March 2024). Learn more at themoth.org.
Sponsors
Radio Partner: WSHU Public Radio
Performing Arts programming is supported in part by funding from The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and Monica and Peter Tessler. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: John and Joan D’Addario, Christine and Bill Campbell, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Michèle and Steve Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Leila Straus, and Susi and Peter Wunsch.
