Jay Michaelson, Wayne Hoffman, Felice Shays, Lisa Beth Kovitz,
Phil S. Stein, Ronnie Koenig
Date: Mar 22 2007
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St., NYC
Jay Michaelson is an award-winning writer, educator, and student ofcontemplative practice. He is a columnist for The Forward,the chief editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture,and the author of God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (2006). Jay is both a Ph.D candidate in Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,and a devoted student of Kabbalah, meditation, and contemplative practice.
Wayne Hoffman is author of a novel, Hard.He has published stories in several anthologies: about phone sex and Hebrew school (in “Generation Q”), Princess Diana and leather bars (in “BarStories”), coming out and Passover Seders (in “Mama’s Boy”), and others. By day, he is The Forward’s managing editor.
Felice Shays fists watermelons. Her shows: Felice Brutality, Jew, Hungry?, and PsychoSemitic have been produced at Dixon Place, WOW Café Theater, The National Queer Arts Festival (San Francisco), etc. A NYC-based sex and BDSM advisor/educator and sex party producer, Felice travels the country encouraging people to do all sorts of breathtaking sexual feats.
Lisa Beth Kovetz is an award winning writer and producer. Her novel TheTuesday Erotica Club has been translated into 14 languages. With her company Flying South Productions, Kovetz created the Jazz Baby CDs, featuring Poncho Sanchez, Taj Mahal, Billy Preston, Cybill Shepherd, Jim Belushi, and more. Kovetz’ plays are produced around the world. She will be reading “Naked on the Rabbi’s Toilet Bowl”.
Phil S. Stein has worked the halls of power – including the board rooms of several of the world’s top media and Wall Street firms, the film and TV business, US presidential campaigns, and most recently educational institutions and political parties in Israel – applying his anthropologicaland literary gimlet eyes for global institutions as a marketing expert. From his days as a campus gay leader in the early 90s, Phil has written onissues of gay rights, AIDS, and the fetish world. He’s also one of thefounders and creators of the international men’s foot fetish organization and site FootFriends.com, and published kinky erotica. Phil recently returned from two years in Israel, where he explored his Jewish heritage, the ultra-orthodox world, yeshivas, Israeli politics, and various communities (gay, straight, and otherwise), about which he’s begun to write.
Ronnie Koenig earned her BA in theater at Barnard College and her MFA inplaywriting at Ohio University. She is a freelance writer for magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Penthouse and was the editor-in-chief of Playgirl magazine. Her play, Dirty Girl, which is based on her experiences at Playgirl, was at The Kraine Theater.
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