The 4th Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival Set for UNDER St. Marks, 11/4-11

This November, FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade presents the Fourth Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival. With storytellers from a variety of ethnic, national and sexual backgrounds, this year's festival promises to break the mould and bring you stories that are both intensely individual and strikingly universal. Don't miss out on six days of stories that will make you laugh, cry and want to hear more! This year's festival will run November 4-11 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A). Tickets ($10-$15) may be purchased in advance at www.horseTRADE.info.

The Adam Wade Show

Written & Performed by Adam Wade

Monday, November 3 @ 7pm $10

The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)

Adam Wade (Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer, NPR regular), a staggering 20-time Moth Story Slam winner, has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for his special monthly show. And he's making his Gotham Storytelling Festival show EVEN MORE SPECIAL. A super surprise featured guest will also be starting the evening off.

Sideshow Goshko Storytelling Series

Wednesday, November 4 @ 7pm $15

Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post, Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion) invites some of NYC's top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives. There's a challenging trivia game and a free wine giveaway where one lucky audience member will walk away with their very own bottle of Sideshow Sauce! Featuring guest storytellers from NPR's This American Life, MTV, VH1, The New York Times, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and more!

Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret

Created by Rob Dub & Gregory Levine

Wednesday, November 4 @ 9:30pm $10

Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret is Gotham's Premiere Variety Show: Comedy, Music, Burlesque, Vaudeville, and More! Hosted by Canadian import Jillian Thomas; featuring Bill Chambers and Gregory Levine - and a rotating cast of the entertainment cream of NYC, America and Canada. Created and Produced by Rob Dub and Gregory Levine.

Bad Feelings: The Club I'm Not a Part Of

Featuring Andy Christie, Susan Kent, & Sherry Weaver

Thursday, November 5 @ 7pm $15

Bad Feelings is a storytelling show started by Nisse Greenberg two years ago to explore those stories that we want to tell, but that don't wrap neatly into the packaged narrative we usually tell about our lives. Bad Feelings is about those stories that happened and are true, but feel alienating to the person telling them. We'll explore stories of realizing that you are not the person you pretend to be, and that you are not a part of the club you wanted to be a part of.

Family Legends

Hosted by Brad Lawrence & Cyndi Freeman

Thursday, November 5 @ 8:30pm $15

Every Storyteller got their start somewhere and usually that start is with the family legends that taught them how transporting it could be to listen to a life. Now Nefarious Laboratories presents an evening of those family legends, the stories that made the storytellers, from some of New York's best raconteurs. Come and have a seat, just like at the kitchen table, while they tell you about the scandals and the incidents and the feats of daring by relations, near and distant, that influences them to turn their own lives into great stories.

$1800

Written & Directed by David Crabb

Friday, November 6 @ 7pm $15

So, I found $1800 in cash. With a little detective work I might be able to find its rightful owner. But will I? Why should I? What bad could possibly happen if I hold onto it for a little while? A lot.

When I Was a Puerto Rican Girl

Written & Performed by Keila Fontánez La Salle

Friday, November 6 @ 8:30pm $15

A multidisciplinary experience about womanhood, self-identity and perception in America. Follow three women as they experience the complex process of finding your true self while trying to be an active member of two different cultures.

Queer Memoir

Hosted by Kelli Dunham

Saturday, November 7 @ 2pm $15

Queer Memoir is New York's longest-running LGBT themed storytelling series. We're celebrating five years of giving voice to our collective queer experience and preserving and documenting our complex queer history. Every month, we host some of Queer New York's best known performers, and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives.

David Troisi Isn't Gay: Stories About My Father (Who Isn't Gay)

Written & Performed by Nate Charles Troisi, Directed by Bridget Balodis

Saturday, November 7 @ 7pm $15

David Troisi Isn't Gay is a show about a rivalry as old as time itself (28 years), the rivalry between Father and Son. From the depths of the human soul, to the depths of hell itself (Hawaii), Nate Charles Troisi recounts pranks, misunderstandings and coping mechanisms that make up his family. A show about growing up, letting go, getting on, forgetting the six, loving the four and arguing about the WiFi network name.

A Whole New Hour Without a Name Yet

Written & Performed by Peter Aguero, Directed by Sara Peters

Friday, November 6 @ 8:30pm $15

Peter Aguero (The Moth, Daddy Issues) presents a new hour of stories based in a small-town supermarket in 1994. A friendship is rekindled, objects are stolen, the friendship wanes.

Collecting stories from a small supermarket and the characters that inhabited the aisles, Peter tells of a longtime friendship that's rekindled while pushing carts in the parking lot. Two old friends learn how to make some bad choices together. In the end, one of them pays a harsh price.

Sikofitall Gudtyme Tour: A Spanking

Written & Directed by Ron Stroman

Sunday, November 8 @ 2pm $15

Step into the family Volkswagen. Ron "the bastard lovechild of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben" Stroman is going to show you an America that rotates on a different axis. He'll weave through schoolyard-debates over Beatlemania; he detours into the grind of working, as a child, in his father's McDonalds; brushes with stardom; and all the while the fuel gauge flashes "TIYUD." No need to pack for this trip. Ron already has a baggie.

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade is a theater development group with a focus on new work that produces a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater every season. FRIGID's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. FRIGID New York grew out of the annual FRIGID Festival, the first and only festival of its kind in New York City to offer artists 100% of their box office proceeds, and Horse Trade Theater Group, a self-sustaining theater development and management group.