Event

Coming Of Age (An Open Mic + Reading)

Whats your coming of age story? Is it celebrating your sweet sixteen sitting on the fire escape stairs with your friend who is also a stranger? Is it realizing that your life is a performance you didnt sign up for? Or is it being terrified but comforted that you dont belong no where and everywhere? Join us on Monday the 16th at 6:30pm to cry, chuckle, and celebrate the intricacies of character development.

Hosted by Daniel Slade Rosen

About the host:
Daniel Slade Rosen is a music director, who recently completed his senior year at Vassar College, majoring in both Music and Economics. He spent his time since graduating in his hometown of Rochester, NY, working on shows such as Newsies, Altar Boyz, and Peter and the Starcatcher, along with teaching various bootcamps and master classes. In the new year, he has since moved to the city to further pursue that career.

About the features:

Benita Rosalind is a writer of poetry, fiction, scripts, and songs. She published her first collection of poetry, Fragmented Bliss, in 2016 and since then, her work has been featured in publications such as Anak Sastra, Entropy Mag, and The Onism Journal. After directing PAC Life (2019) and helping produce an off-Broadway run of Legally Blonde (2019), shes currently working on her second book and doing writing challenges on her YouTube channel (benita rosalind) or instagram (benitarosalind) while completing her degree at NYU. www.benitajrosalind.com

AYESHA RAEES identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. She was a 2018-2019 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop where she also now serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor. Her work has appeared in The Margins, Apogee, Cagibi, Wilderness, Cherry Tree, and elsewhere. Raees was shortlisted for the Judith Akbar Poetry Prize and won the University of Findlays Deanna Tully Contest. Her work has further been supported by the Millay Colony For the Arts, Brooklyn Poets, and AAWW. Raees is a graduate of Bennington College, and currently lives in New York City. Her website is: www.ayesharaees.com