Anna Sale, Anthony DeVito and More Set for HOW I LEARNED THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM Tonight

The How I Learned Series will present HOW I LEARNED THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM tonight, February 25th, 2015 at 8PM (doors at 7:30PM) at Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn (Between 5th and 6th Aves).

Featuring:
- ANNA SALE (Journalist; Host, Death, Sex & Money)
- JOSH GONDELMAN (Comedian; Producer, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
- MICAELA BLEI (Educator; Storyteller, The Moth GrandSLAM)
- PHOEBE ROBINSON (Writer; Comedian, Blaria LIVE!)
- ANTHONY DEVITO (Actor; Comedian, Comedy Central)
- Hosted by Blaise Allysen Kearsley

Tickets: $6 in advance / $10 at the door. On sale soon at UNIONHALLNY.COM. Buy advance tickets HERE. To learn more, visit www.HowILearnedSeries.com.

BIOS:

ANNA SALE is a veteran media reporter and the host and managing editor of Death, Sex & Money, a biweekly interview podcast on WNYC in which Anna gets celebrities and regular folks to open up about the three touchiest subjects. She is a frequent fill-in host for The Brian Lehrer Show and The Leonard Lopate Show, and has contributed to This American Life, Studio 360, Slate, BBC, MSNBC, and PBS Newshour.

JOSH GONDELMAN is a writer and comedian, as well as a producer at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. His writing has appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, and McSweeney's and he's the co-creator of @SeinfeldToday, named one of Paste Magazine's must-follows. He has written for Funny Or Die's Billy On The Street and has performed standup at Rooftop Comedy, The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, and SF Sketchfest.

PHOEBE ROBINSON is a standup comedian, a writer for Fuse's White Guy Talk Show, and creator of the Blaria podcast, webseries, and live show with The Daily Show's Jessica Williams. Phoebe has appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Broad City, Last Comic Standing, HuffPoLive, and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. As a writer, she has contributed to Glamour, xoJane, the New York Times, Bitch, and Vanity Fair.

MICAELA BLEI is a storyteller, Education Program Manager for The Moth, and co-creator of The Moth High School StorySLAM Program. She is a Moth GrandSLAM champion and The Daily Dish called her "hilarious and heartrending" which was pretty exciting because she'd never had a press quote before and isn't sure where else she'd use it except in this bio.

ANTHONY DEVITO is a SAG-AFTRA actor, a comedian, a storyteller, and a native New Yorker who appears in the TV pilot for the storytelling podcast RISK! and stars in the independent film A Box Comes to Brooklyn, which he co-wrote, and the award-winning indie feature, The Apostles of Park Slope. His other appearances include Boardwalk Empire, Rescue Me, Conan, Best Week Ever, A&E, VH1, Discovery Channel, and Comedy Central.

HOW I LEARNED features writers, storytellers, comics, and other raconteurs holding forth on a rotating theme. It's the best thing for you right now. The series has been featured in the New York Times, New York Observer, Electric Literature, Splitsider, The L Magazine, The Rumpus, Flavorpill, and elsewhere. It has been named Best NYC Storytelling and Reading Series, and is a multiple-time Critic's Pick in Time Out New York's Books, Comedy, and Own This City sections. How I Learned happens every last Wednesday of the month, and sometimes more than that, which basically means you'll have the best night of your life on those nights, repeatedly.

BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY is the creator, producer, and host of How I Learned and the creator/producer of Best in Show. She has told stories at The Moth, RISK!, The Rejection Show, Mortified, Cringe, Real Characters, and Literary Death Match, which she did not win. Her writing has been published in Midnight Breakfast, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, VICE, two anthologies, and several other places that are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. One time, she was awarded a month-long writing residency in Vermont where she got electrocuted and maybe almost killed a horse. Visit her at your own risk.