This Friday at 7 pm ET, join us for our seventh weekly online live show! Three storytellers from the Story Collider team and beyond will be sharing their stories on the theme "Social Skills," and we'll invite our audience to share their ten-word stories as well!
This event is free, or you may pay up to $25 on a sliding scale if you wish to donate to The Story Collider. Reserve your spot and watch here or on the page below!
Stories by:
Sean Bearden is a Ph. D. candidate in Physics at UC San Diego, researching the application and development of memcomputing systems, a novel computing paradigm. Identifying as a nontraditional student, Sean went from dropping out of high school to receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship in the Minority Ph. D. Program. To alleviate the stress that is inevitably coupled with graduate research, he enjoys training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the P5 Academy in San Diego. Visit seanbearden.com to learn more.
Mark Pagán is an award-winning filmmaker, podcast producer, performer, and educator. His work and performances have been shown at festivals and shows worldwide including Slamdance Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, Family Ghosts, PRX, WNYC's Nancy, Colorado Public Radio's On Something, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Charleston Comedy Festival, RISK!, The Moth, and Story Collider. Mark is currently piloting a new daily show as well as producing the third season of the award-winning podcast, Other Men Need Help, a playful docu-essay show dissecting masculine insecurities.
Angel Yau is a comedic storyteller, sketch performer and filmmaker based out of Queens, New York. She studied film, creative writing and the ability to laugh at herself at Ithaca College. After college, she joined the Upright Citizens Brigade theater diving into improv, sketch, storytelling and videos. Her closest opportunity to fame was being picked to almost be on a reality TV show, called “Comic Genius” produced by Happy Madison because of her “non-traditional comic persona.” The show is no longer (was never) in production. The proudest art she made was a stop-motion animation called “The Artist Inside Me.” It made its way onto a few blogs. Neatorama was the first to pick it up stating, “As Picasso once supposedly said, ‘All children are born artists. The problem is to remain artist as we grow up.’ Storyteller Angel Yau created this touching and funny animation about her journey of not becoming an artist. Well, sort of. She’s still an artist in all of our hearts.” Hopefully she will always be an artist in everyone’s hearts always.