The Moth – 8th Annual

The Moth
Center Presents
The Center Theater
March 3 | 7:00 PM

Theme: Great Expectations

The Moth – hailed as “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket” by The Wall Street Journal – is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. In its twenty-five-year history, The Moth has presented more than 45,000 stories, told live without notes, by people from all walks of life to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth Podcast is downloaded more than 90 million times a year, and The Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, airs weekly on more than 570 public radio stations nationwide. Each Moth Mainstage features simple, old-fashioned storytelling, by five wildly divergent raconteurs who develop and shape their stories with The Moth’s artistic team.

Our Host:
JON GOODE is an Emmy nominated author, poet, and playwright currently residing in Atlanta, Ga. He has been a featured performer on HBO’s Def Poetry, TVOne’s Verses & Flow, and BET’s Lyric Café. Jon’s debut collection of poems and short stories, Conduit, has received to date 54 five star reviews, spent 16 weeks as a #1 title on Amazon and is the best reviewed book of poetry on Amazon for 2015/16. Jon has released his first novel, Mydas, which also debuted as a #1 title on Amazon. He is the regular host of The Moth StorySLAM in Atlanta, GA. IG: @jon_goode

Our Storytellers:
Alistair Bane is a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. He is a storyteller, writer, and visual artist. His writings have been published in Readers Digest and the award-winning anthology Alone Together: Stories of Love, Comfort and Grief in the times of Covid 19. In his free time, he volunteers at a sliding scale veterinary clinic and has fostered over 300 dogs. His favorite dogs to foster are feral dogs. He says it’s a very rewarding way to spend time, if you don’t mind a tiny bit of growling.

Tiq Milan is a thought leader, storyteller and media maker whose work on equity and inclusion has had an impact in the U.S and abroad for over a decade. He travels throughout North America leading discussions on healthy modes of masculinity, intersectional leadership and engineering environment of inclusion. He has lectured at several universities including Harvard, Stanford, and Brown on the importance of inclusion as a tool of innovation and outlines concrete strategies for productive engagement. Tiq is a sought-after host having moderated conversation on intersectional inclusion and human rights at HBO’s Newfest Film Festival and The Tribeca Film Festival. His 2016 TED Talk has been viewed over 3 million times and continues to inform and inspire people all over the world. His memoir, Man Of My Design: A Self-Determined Life is slated to be published Fall of 2023.

Miranda de Moraes’s dad immigrated to the U.S. from Brazil when he was 16, with no money, or plan. Years of unflagging, hard work landed him where he is now: A prominent architect in Los Angeles and husband to Miranda’s lovely, Jewish-Swedish mom. The American Dream worked for him. Fascinated by the immigrant experience, Miranda studied sociology and Spanish in Cape Town, Santa Barbara and Barcelona. It was through her studies that she grew eager to amplify marginalized voices and hold power to account, which prompted a career in journalism. After earning a master’s at Columbia Journalism School in New York, Miranda scored what’s felt like a dream job ” covering health and the Latino community for the Jackson Hole News&Guide, in Wyoming. Contact her at [email protected]

Widely recognized for her role, over six seasons, on Bravo’s popular reality series, The Real Housewives of New York City, Carole Radziwill started her career as a journalist with ABC News. While working for the documentary unit, Peter Jennings Reporting, she reported on foreign stories in Cambodia, Haiti, and India. During the 1990 Gulf War Carole was stationed in Israel and in 2001, she spent six weeks in Afghanistan embedded with the 101st Airborne Division at the U.S. military base in Kandahar.

Carole went on to produce stories for several magazine shows including 20/20, Primetime Live, and DayOne. Her story on Vietnam Veteran Bobby Muller’s anti-landmine campaign in Cambodia would earn Radziwill the first of three EMMY Awards. With a career that spanned nearly fifteen years, her additional accolades include an RFK Humanitarian Award, a GLAAD Award and numerous others. Carole left ABC News in 2003 to write her first book, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love. Published in 2005, What Remains spent twenty weeks on The New York Times Best-Sellers list. She signed with Glamour magazine to write a monthly column in which she interviewed celebrated people from the worlds of politics, popular culture, media and fashion. Her first novel, The Widow’s Guide to Sex & Dating, was published in February 2014.

George Sumner lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Tina Hose. One of six siblings, George was raised in rural Utah, but says he grew up in Vietnam, where he served as a helicopter pilot. George enjoyed a firefighter career in Salt Lake City and a second career as fire chief in suburban Bountiful, Utah.. George took job-related college classes all during his career, getting Associate Degrees in Fire Science and Paramedic, Bachelors in Social Studies and a Masters of Public Administration. In retirement, George and Tina are active in community and political affairs, serving on community councils and non-profit boards. They enjoy travel, especially visiting their friends and family scattered throughout America.