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Kona on PBS!

“Getting Away With It”

(Season 8, Episode 5)

Stories From the Stage

Watch Kona’s Episode!

Premiered on PBS and the WORLD Channel on Monday, January 27, 2025.

Winner of a SIGNAL award for Best Driveway Moment Podcast Episode!

Upcoming Shows & Workshops

Thursday, January 29, 2026
8:00 - 10:00 pm

About Last Night: Dating Disaster Stories (NYC)

Littlefield, 635 Sackett St, Brooklyn, NY 11217

About Last Night is the live storytelling show where people get on stage and share their most unhinged dating and hookup stories. Since its conception in 2016, About Last Night has captivated thousands of audience members in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago. DOORS 7PM | SHOW 8PM

Friday, January 30, 2026
7:00 pm

TALE: NYC's Finest Storytelling

The Red Room at KGB, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

For the past 13 years, TALE brings you the best in NYC’s storytelling! Past storytellers include Roy Wood Jr (Daily Show), Jena Friedman (Borat), and Anthony Haden-Guest (Vanity Fair), with writers/performers from The Daily Show, HBO, Last Week Tonight, Conan—and beyond! Hosted by Harmon Leon (This American Life, 99% Invisible). Starring Kona Morris (Moth StorySLAM Winner), Drew Prochaska (The Artichoke Storytelling), Di Cai (Story Collider), Joey Novick (Comedy Central), with Music from Elana Low.

Monday and Wednesday, March 2 & 4, 2026
6:30-8:30 pm

Tell Your Story: A Storytelling Workshop

Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining, NY 10562

Storytelling encompasses every person on the planet, no matter your background, field of study, or walk of life. Join writer and storyteller Kona Morris (The Moth, PBS’s Stories From The Stage, RISK!) for a 2-day workshop that will guide you through the process of composing and structuring your stories for any audience. From job interviews to wedding speeches, it is important to feel confident to share your stories because YOUR STORY MATTERS. Learn how to craft your own life experiences into a polished, first-person narrative that you can share with family, friends, and at storytelling events. Open to all experience levels!

Friday, March 6, 2026
6:30 - 8:00 pm

Lower Eastside Stories

P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002

Lower East Stories, hosted by Matt Storrs, brings the best NYC creatives (and some surprise guests) together for an early evening storytelling salon. Each month, we’ll host a variety of experts, professionals, and ne’er-do-wells whose work has been featured on The Moth, Comedy Central, PBS, and at fringe festivals around the world.

Saturday, March 7, 2026
7:00 - 9:00 pm

Storytelling Showcase at Bethany Arts Community

Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY 10562

NYC’s best storytellers are coming to Ossining—from NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour, Story Collider, Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, PBS’s Stories from the Stage, the RISK! podcast, and more! Join us for an unforgettable evening of stories hosted by Kona Morris. Past storytellers include: Erin Barker, Gastor Almonte, Annie Tan, Ro Moran, Kelly Spillman, Andrew McGill, and Matt Storrs.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026
7:30 pm

The Grapevine Storytelling

BusBoys & Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012

The Grapevine is home to the best in modern storytelling, which means all kinds of storytelling: truth, fiction, heroes, villains, myths, and legends, in solemn, humorous, and other styles. All the varieties of story that people have told each other for thousands of years; told really, really, well by people who are at the top of their craft. Hosted by: Tim Livengood, and Renée Brachfeld.

Past Shows

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HOME

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Revealed March 3rd 2024 flyer

Lit-n-Laughs, The Lyric Hyperion, Los Angeles, CA - January 19, 2024

F-Bomb Reading Series, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO - February 10, 2024

How Was It? Storytelling, QED Astoria, New York City, NY - February 17, 2024

Listen To Your Skin Book Release, The Pairing, Kansas City, MO - February 9, 2024

Storytelling Night, ISM Brewing, Long Beach, CA - April 25, 2024

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LBS Poster Feb. 2024

LBSFGS Monday July 1

RISK

It's Funny Now!

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MAS

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The Power of Endings

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To Have & Have Not

Stories from stage

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StorySmash

Pressed Jokes

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Kona Pasadena Playhouse

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Bethany Showcase

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Pasadena Playhouse Workshop

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TALE

Tell Your Story

Lower East Side Stories

Grapevine

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