Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about roots of all kinds in science, from finding long-lost family to finding ourselves, at Caveat, NYC!
Hosted by Diana Li and Paula Croxson at Caveat NYC. Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm.
In person and livestreamed. Early bird tickets available until until January 6, 7:00pm.
Stories by:
Josh Barber is the Assistant Director of Aquatic Life at Columbia University where he oversees the well-being of various aquatic species in biomedical research. He's cohost of the Podcast "Gettin' Fishy With it" a podcast about fish in the wild, the hobby and the laboratory. His hobbies include improv comedy, ruining conversation flow with terrible puns, fishing, and fishing in his favorite videogame, World of Warcraft.
Rhonda Hansome can be found frequently telling stories on Tale: NY's Finest Storytelling, Bady House Storyelling Concert & Rose Valley Storytelling House Concerts.
David Quang Pham is a science communicator and composer-playwright in Washington Heights. As a Midwestern child of Vietnamese immigrants, they are drawn to stories about where life can go if you let curiosity take you. They earned an astrophysics degree and theatre minor at Michigan State University and studied playwriting as a Working Title Playwrights apprentice in Atlanta and Playwrights Foundation fellow in San Francisco. This composer’s best-known science musicals include Ellipses, a universal musical starring the Galaxy family and their dog Gravity during the Big Bang, and Turnover: A New Leaf, a plant-based musical about green cards. Turnover was nominated for Best Musical and won Best Book and Director (Aliyah Curry) in Philadelphia's New Musicals Festival. Queer Theatre Kalamazoo is producing Turnover at Jolliffe Theatre in May 2025. Their musicals have been produced in Atlanta; Boulder, Colorado; Manhattan; Philadelphia; and Coimbra, Portugal. Composers Janelle Lawrence and Gonzalo Valencia-Peña mentor them, helping forge their musical styles from pop, punk, to Cai Luong. When not writing songs full of science puns, they play trombone in the Queer Big Apples Corps and study Vietnamese zithers. They plan to stage shows in outer space. Be up to lightspeed at sciencetheatre.us and @sciencetheatre.
Rita Rigano is a NYC-based storyteller, educator, and improviser, appearing locally and online - Generation Woman, New Tricks, (mostly) True Things, The Moth, The Once Upon a Time Show. Rita started storytelling with her children, presenting fairy tales with a twist. The Rigano Family Storytellers performed at Westchester libraries and schools. As an educator she taught presentation skills to undergraduate business students at Yeshiva University and software skills to corporate employees. She is still the go to resource for friends and family struggling with a Word, Excel or PowerPoint issue. Rita is currently teaching herself Italian and brushing up her French. She loves live theatre, live music, and swing dancing with her husband.
Rollie Williams is a Brooklyn-based comedian, video editor, and guy with both student debt and a Climate Science & Policy degree from Columbia University. He is the creator and host of the digital comedy series Climate Town which has amassed 550,000 subscribers, several millions views, a handful of awards, and has spawned an engaged Discord community of fun climate people. Rollie is also the co-creator and co-host of The Climate Denier's Playbook alongside Nicole Conlan from The Daily Show. When he's not doing climate stuff, Rollie plays an unhealthy amount of billiards. If you're in the mood for non-climate videos from Rollie, check out his series 'Your Average Pool Player' and the followup series 'From Average To Good.' I can't promise you'll like them because I'm not sure who you are, but they are definitely distinct.