John Fugelsang & More to Perform Original Works at The Cutting Room, 6/18

On June 18 at 8pm, Eve Brandstein will play host to award winning writers, actors and musicians performing original work at The Cutting Room located at 44 E. 32nd Street in New York.

Tickets are $15 in advance at EveBrandsteinPoetryinMotion.com or $20 at the door.

Scheduled to Appear:

• John Fugelsang
• May Pang
• Taylor Negron
• Dolly Fox
• Sylvana Joyce
• Donnie Kehr
• Michael Lally
• Susan Merson
• Elinor Nauen
• Nathan Pearson
• Mason Summit

Producer/Writer/Director Eve Brandstein has been bringing leading actors, writers and musicians together to create exceptional events since 1988. Past speakers at Poetry in Motion have included Robert Downey Jr, Judd Nelson, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, etc.

For more information about Eve Brandstein's Poetry in Motion and its history as a bi-coastal literary salon, please visit EveBrandsteinPoetryin Motion.com or checkout "The Hollywood Review by Eve Brandstein and Michael Lally" which contains original work from some of Hollywood's leading writers and performers that was first presented at Poetry in Motion. You'll find it on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1484152794).

To get tickets to this event EveBrandsteinPoetryinMotion.com.

DOLLY FOX

Dolly Fox is a writer, former Zoli model, singer and actress with credits in 25 musical comedies for regional and national tours, off Broadway and on Broadway including Snow White as the Evil Queen and Grace Farrel in Annie 2 directed by Martin Charnin. She was a contract player on All my Children for 2 years cat fighting with the legendary Erica Kane and also appeared on Another World. She wrote for Andy Warhols Interview magazine under her own byline called "Hollywood Confidential" as well as acted in video productions for Warhol. Dolly is thrilled to be reunited with Donnie Kehr since the two of them sang in NY nightclubs together for years in the late 1980's.

John Fugelsang

John Fugelsang is an actor, comedian, monologist & the host of 'Viewpoint,' weeknights at 8pm ET, on Current TV. His solo show 'Guilt: A Love Story' was nominated for the Drama League's Distinguished Performance Award. He was named Outstanding NYC monologist at Lincoln Center by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs. He once got George Harrison to give his final performance on VH1 & once got Mitt Romney's adviser to call Mitt an etch-a-sketch on CNN.

SYLVANA JOYCE

Sylvana Joyce is a classically trained pianist and professional actress, leads a showstopping performance with her powerhouse voice and natural star quality. Sylvana Joyce and The Moment's music is the perfect mix of gypsy rock, blues and cabaret that has drawn comparisons to Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Gogol Bordello and The Dresden Dolls. Six months after the band's inception, they had already received recognition from the industry, with a full week feature by MTV and Ourstage as a "Needle in the Haystack" Artist. Sylvana's band has already graced the stage over 100 times all over the Northeast, and have opened for such names as Nikka Costa, The Aristocrats, and Lettuce. SJ + The Moment are also proud to announce they've been accepted to a myriad of prestigious festivals this year, including SXSW, Musikfest, and Montauk Music Festival, and are currently #1 on Blues/Gypsy Rock Charts for NYC on ReverbNation.

Sylvana Joyce will be playing her single, "The Break" on NBC for Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase.

Donnie Kehr

Donny Kehr is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The PATH Fund. He created the annual ROCKERS ON BROADWAY benefit concert series, which celebrates it's 20th Anniversary this year. Donnie has many directed concerts and events including The Who's TOMMY 15th Anniversary Reunion concert on Broadway, the 2009 JCC Maccabi Games Opening Ceremonies at Madison Square Garden, and the launch event for UN Women in the United Nations General Assembly Hall. Mr. Kehr is a veteran Broadway Actor, Singer, Dancer & Musician. He has created roles in award winning shows such as The Who's -Tommy, Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot, The Human Comedy and The Mystery of Edwin Drood to name a few.

MICHAEL LALLY

27 books of poetry and prose (Rocky Dies Yellow, Hollywood Magic, March 18 2003, et. al.); 92nd St. Y Poetry Center's Discovery Award for The South Orange Sonnets 1972; NEA Poetry Fellowships 1974 and '81 (the poem My Life denounced in Congress as "pornography" in the right's first attempt to end the National Endowment for the Arts), PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature for Cant Be Wrong 1997; American Book Award for It's Not Nostalgia 2000. Co-founded Mass Transit poetry reading series in DC (1971-1975) and Poetry in Motion in L.A. (1988-96) among others. Day jobs included jazz pianist, editor, publisher, college teacher, book critic (for The Washington Post and The Village Voice et. al.), chauffeur, TV (JAG, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, et. al.) and movie actor (White Fang, Basic Instinct, The Cool World, et. al.), screenwriter and script doctor (Drugstore Cowboy, Pump Up the Volume, et. al.). Since 2006 Michael's been writing the blog Lally's Alley (lallysalley.blogspot.com).

Susan Merson

Susan Merson is a writer, producer, actor and director. Susan is currently Producing Artistic Director of NY THEATRE INTENSIVES, a 6 week theatre program that focuses on new plays and the collaborative process. She's an actress with credits on, of and off Broadway, in tv and film, Her many plays have been seen at theatres across the US and Canada. Most recently, NYC has seen WHITE BIRCHES at the Avant Garde Arts Festival, CARLA TELLS US WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BLUE BEDROOM at Berkshire Playwrights Lab, I BELIEVE IN MARRIAGE at the League of Professional Theatre Women's One Act Festival and WHEN THEY GO AND YOU DO NOT at both the EstroGenius Festival and EST/6th Floor/NY and the Fountain Theatre in LA. Her newest play with music, created with Shellen Lubin BETWEEN PRETTY PLACES will be presented in the Sublet Series this August at HERE Susan is the author of DREAMING IN DAYLIGHT, WHEN THEY GO AND YOU DO NOT and YOUR NAME HERE; AN ACTOR WRITERS GUIDE TO SOLO PERFORMANCE.

ELINOR NAUEN

Elinor Nauen is the author most recently of So Late into the Night, a book-length autobiographical poem in ottava rima, and My Marriage A to Z: A big-city romance. She once told "walked into a bar" jokes at CBGB. She lives in NYC and makes her living as a science & health writer.

TAYLOR NEGRON

Taylor Negron is currently performing his show "The Unbearable lightness of being Taylor Negron" -a fusion of story and song- in the NYC area, directed by opera Director David Schweitzer and co starring songwriter/singer Logan Heftel.

The show debuted at the prestigious Green Room at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in Scotland and was included in the "2009 best of New York Solo festival "at The SoHo Playhouse. Negron directed the original Stage Musical production of "Who Loves You, Baby" exploring the return of the late, self-proclaimed Macho man "Telly" Savalas, the production played to sold out audiences at Huron Club in the SoHo Playhouse and ran for more than 2 years. He is a contributor for The Huffington Post and XOJane Magazine. His comedy essays are currently published in many anthologies. Taylor Negron has starred in his own HBO special and has appeared on The Tonight Show. His films included, Easy Money, Punchline, Stuart Little, The Last Boy Scout, Angels in the Outfield, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and the much-ballyhooed hit The Aristocrats.

May Pang

The world-renowned confidant and companion of John Lennon, May Pang has been in the public eye for over three decades. Her career in the music industry spans 40 years, beginning with Allen Klein's company, ABKCO Industries, the firm which managed the Beatles Apple Corps. Ltd and the Rolling Stones.

In 1970, Lennon and Yoko Ono hired Pang as their personal assistant. She would eventually became their production coordinator -- playing a key role in records by Lennon, Ono and Harry Nilsson. In 1974, Pang was awarded an RIAA Gold Album Award for her work on Lennon's Walls and Bridges, the #1 hit album which included Lennon's first and only #1 single in his lifetime, "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night." Warner Books published her memoir, Loving John, in 1983.

In 2008, St. Martin's Press released Instamatic Karma, a collection of Pang's personal photographs of John Lennon. Fine art prints of these portraits have been exhibited in major galleries across the country. In this age of "social awareness", Pang was asked to participate as an artist on a CD called: ALL ABOUT BULLIES...BIG AND SMALL. The CD won a Grammy for The Best Children's CD category in 2012.

NATHAN PEARSON

Whether through his career in Social Services, or his presence on the spoken word scene, Nathan Pearson, AKA Nathan P. has found a way to uplift, motivate, inspire as well as entertain those he cross paths with. Beginning in 2000 when he became a Nuyorican Poet's Cafe Grand Slam finalist and slam host, his poetic travels have taken him to several college campuses, 3 poetic off broadway productions, two chat books, 1 cd and countless performances, Nathan has been blessed to meet with and perform with a Fort Knox vault of talented artists. You can friend Nathan on Facebook under Nathan Pearson. Just look for the trademark fedora.

MASON SUMMIT

Mason is a 16 year-old singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, CA. Since age 13, he has been playing around L.A. at venues such as Room 5 lounge, Genghis Cohen, and the House of Blues. 2012 saw the release of Mason's debut album, Absentee. Songs from Absentee have been featured on internet radio shows such as BuddhaMan's International Experience and Skycast Indies. In May 2013, Mason began hosting Mason's Noise Parlour, a quarterly series at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA to showcase the talent of other teen musicians and writers.

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