Venue/Location: Mission Theater, 1624 N.W. Glisan St., Phone: (503) 224-0166
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 6:30 PM
Back Fence PDX: HASHTAG NERD
Admission: $12.00 advance / $15.00 at the door
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21+ only
Join Back Fence PDX for live storytelling with the theme, HASHTAG NERD. No lies. No notes. No memorization. Just people telling true, 9-15 minute, unmemorized stories
Featuring:
Chelsea Cain (PDX)
Best selling Thriller Writer (Most recently: Kill You Twice, Minotaur Books, released Aug 7, 2012) + Parallel
Parker Extraordinaire + Dungeons and Dragons Player + Fish, Cheese and Chocolate Eating Vegan + Secret
Taxidermy Enthusiast + Internet Diagnostic Specialist/Hypochondriac + Claim to Fame: At Ten Years Old,
Touched Liza Minnelli's Elbow
Matt Fraction (PDX)
Eisner Award-winning Comic Book Writer, Written More Consecutive Issues of Iron Man Than Anyone Else
Has Ever + Wrote the Iron Man 2 Video Game That Tied into the Film Sequel + Does a Flawless Impression of
Ice T + Has a Dented Skull + Can Break Any Pair of Scissors Known to Man and Has Left More than a Dozen
in his Wake
Lindy West (SEA)
Staff Writer at Jezebel.com, Written for GQ and Cracked.com + Longtime Film Reviewer, Her
Scathing/Hilarious Sex and the City 2 Review Went Bonkers Viral + Has Spent Some Time Quality Time
Viewing Degrassi: The Next Generation
Kiala Kazebee (PDX)
Co-hosts a Web Series on the Geek & Sundry Channel with Felicia Day (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Guild)
+ Writes for Nerdist.com, io9.com + At 16 Met Her Idol Ray Bradbury + Would Someday Like to Write a Book
about Teen Space Dragons...with Kissing
Gabe Carleton-Barnes (PDX)
Fixes Computers Professionally + Captain High School Chess team, Champion Mathlete + Former MAC
Genius + Allergic to Sunlight + Plays Basketball in Those Old John Stockton Era Shorts
Bruce Oberg (SEA)
Co-Founder of Sucker Punch, makers of the Infamous+ Sly Cooper Playstation Games + Can Solve the Last
Bit of the Rubik's Cube Behind His Back + Owner of Numerous Pinball Machines (Including Adams Family,
Twilghlight Zone) + Greatest Lifetime Accomplishment: Teaching a Friend to Tie a Bow Tie Over the Phone
AND THIS...The return of our super exciting Audience Lightning Round! FIVE randomly drawn audience members will have a chance to strut their narrative stuff by doing their best to tell an entire HASHTAG NERD story in just ONE MINUTE!