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Pretty Good Stories

  • The Sound Room 3022 Broadway Oakland, CA, 94611 United States (map)

In the mood for a good true story? How about five?

Our June Show features:

️ ️ Don Reed ️ ️  - NPR Snap Judgment Storyteller of the Year, Simon & Schuster author, creator of 7 award-winning solo shows, including The Never Too Late Show, lead actor in Bartlett TV series, alongside Lin Manuel-Miranda, and so much more, as well as the creator and host of Redwood Nights storytelling series in Fairfax and Carmel.

Eva Schlesinger - Moth Grand SLAM champion and multi-time Moth StorySLAM winner, award-winning writer, including Remembering the Walker & Wheelchair (Finishing Line Press) and contributor to several Chicken Soup for the Soul titles. She is working on a short fiction collection and YA novel.

Ben Bourdon - tearing it up in Petaluma, winner of Grand Slam at West Side Stories.

PLUS, the hard-to-define songs of Jon Smear. And stories from Beau and Tom.

About your hosts:

Beau Ryder Davis: Moth Grand Slam champ and winner of multiple Moth StorySLAMs. Featured at Redwood Nights, In A Nutshell, Simply Said, StorySlam Oakland, Alameda StorySlam and so many more. Comedian and seasoning-packet hawker.

Tom Darci: Moth StorySLAM winner. Featured at Simply Said, StorySlam Oakland, Conundrum Chronicles, Alameda StorySlam. Shakespeare lover, pickleballer.

They created Pretty Good Stories to give the room for experienced storytellers to showcase longer, more in-depth stories. Some are funny. Some are moving. All are pretty good. Join us.

Tickets at Pretty Good Stories

Earlier Event: June 13
Mark Hummel Band
Later Event: June 18
Guilhem Fourty Quartet