Stories on the Lawn: Family Revisited
Moth-Style Storytelling at the Neill-Cochran House
May 5, 2022 | 7:30PM
Doors at 7:00, Performance at 7:30
Tickets
$15 General Admission
$5 Students
$0 NCHM Members
Join us on the front lawn for a night of Moth-style true personal stories.
The theme of this Stories on the Lawn is “family revisited.” Celebrated storytellers will share personal short stories of birth families, found families, fights, forgiveness, and finding the way home.
Looking for the bar? Our friends from Still Austin Whiskey Co will be on site serving their delicious cocktails. Coming by car? The Neill-Cochran House Museum features free parking behind the museum for attendees.
Cost: $15 for nonmembers, $5 for students. All proceeds support the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
This performance will be held primarily outside on the spacious front lawn with social distancing measures in place. Attendees are welcome to tour the Museum before the performance. For the safety of all guests, performers, and staff, we request that all visitors wear a mask while inside the Museum.
STORYTELLER BIOS
NELL CARROLL
Nell Seiler Carroll is more used to visual storytelling as a photojournalist. She is Director of Visuals at the American-Statesman. She lives on a farm east of Austin with her teenage son, horses, donkey, dogs, ducks, chickens, and cats. She is also the producer of USA Today's Austin Storytelling Project for 2022.
Nell will be telling a story about community in the June Austin Storytellers Project show. In her spare time, she is a mosaic artist. She is also still searching for an agent to help get her memoir, The Handyman Cure published.
KRISTEN DRENNING
Kristen Drenning is an Austin transplant, having grown up in Los Angeles. She hopes you won't hold that against her. Aside from storytelling, she spends most of her free time improvising.
You can catch her Sundays in June at Game On! ATX or everywhere Improv is done!
BILL FRISBIE
Bill Frisbie is co-host of Drinking With The Saints (a monthly-storytelling salon) and was lead writer for InsideTexas.com (2002-16).
Bill has presented several times at Testify Austin and, recently, participated in The Storytellers Project (a national showcase sponsored by USA Today and the Austin American-Statesman), He has two daughters and lives in a haunted house.
SARA LAAS
Sara Puig Laas grew up in Laredo, where she could see Mexico from the backyard of her Grandma's riverbank home. The adventures and misadventures available on both sides of the Rio Grande are an endless source of stories — even though people in other parts of the country sometimes find them hard to believe. Sara spent a career in journalism and human resources interviewing more than 1000 people about their stories. Now she shares her own onstage and is working on a book of memoir essays.
PAUL NORMANDIN
Paul Normandin is a large man with a big mouth who loves to tell stories to anyone who can’t outrun him. Paul learned to tell stories from the loving feedback of other people's children while teaching Sunday school for 13 years. Paul is an accomplished storyteller, improvisational comedian, actor, and Dean of the Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation.
CARLTON WILCOXSON
Carlton Wilcoxson is a stand-up comedian, actor, and aspiring playboy in Austin, Texas. Since he started comedy in 2016, he has regularly opened for headliners. He hosts multiple popular shows of his own: the long-running weekly show Buzzkill at the Buzz Mill, as well as the consistently sold-out monthly show Stoned vs. Drunk vs. Sober. You can catch him performing at this year’s SXSW, JFL Moontower Comedy Festival, or on the basketball courts, still trying to make his hoop dreams happen.
SUSAN MACK (EMCEE)
A regular on the Austin storytelling performance scene, Susan Mack has more than 20 years experience with corporate and personal storytelling. She's currently pursuing her MFA with Vermont College of Fine Arts.
