From intoxication to toxic fumes, join us for an evening of five true, personal stories about science and poison.
Hosted by Zack Stovall and Neeti Jain.
Each ticket includes two free drinks at the bar with valid photo ID.
Directions:
Hudson River Park’s Discovery Tank is an interactive technology-powered gallery and classroom at Pier 57. This new space invited visitors of all aged to explore the Hudson River environment virtually. The Discovery Tank is located at the end of Pier 57. Please enter through the south entrance glass doors and walk through the market to the end of the hall. The Discovery Tank will be on your right after the bathrooms.
Stories by:
Rima Parikh is a standup comic and writer in New York by way of Chicago. She has performed at festivals around the country. She is a former contributor to Cards Against Humanity and current headline contributor at The Onion. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Reductress, ClickHole and more.
Urvi Talaty is an environmental consultant and creates life cycle assessments and carbon footprints for clients. She is also a dancer, a poet and a self-proclaimed funny woman who likes to read and travel the world. Urvi holds a Master’s degree from Yale and a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and an MBA in technology management from NMIMS University in Mumbai, where she is from.
Andre D. Thompson was born and raised in New York City where he began stand up at 18. He’s performed at comedy clubs all over the city such The Comic Strip Live, New York Comedy Club and Carolines on Broadway. In 2020 Andre made his television debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. In 2021 Andre became a JFL New Face and started working as a staff writer on Comedy Central’s The God’s Honest Truth.
When she was sixteen, brooding alone in the graveyard of a Zen Buddhist monastery (as normal sixteen year olds are wont to do), Lillian Childress decided her greatest contribution to the earth would be to preserve its ecosystems for generations to come. Since then, Lillian has been been testing different ways to fulfill that commitment — through engineering, through entrepreneurship, through investing, and most recently (!) through storytelling.
Called “a natural raconteur” by the Washington Post, Jamie Brickhouse is the New York Times published author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother, and he’s appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage, The Moth Podcast, Risk! Podcast, Story Collider Podcast, and recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon Beavis and Butthead. He is a four-time Moth StorySLAM champion, National Storytelling Network Grand Slam winner, and Literary Death Match champ. Jamie tours two award-winning solo shows, Dangerous When Wet, based on his critically-acclaimed memoir, and I Favor My Daddy, based on his forthcoming memoir. A fixture on the New York storytelling circuit, he has appeared on stages across the country and in Mexico and Canada. Jamie’s personal essays have been published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Salon, Out, Huffington Post, and POZ. Friend him on Facebook, follow him on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube @jamiebrickhouse, and visit www.jamiebrickhouse.com.
