TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014.

Disaster! is the theme of the eleventh installment of TELL, featuring Michelle Brotman, Katina Douveas, Sabrina Chap, and Rachel Bookbinder.

$5-10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds

Drae Campbell is a writer, actor, director, story teller, dancer, and nightlife emcee. Besides winning the 2011 Miss LEZ title, Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland, NYC, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in fesivals globally. She just won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. Drae was dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell throws a monthly party in Brooklyn called PRIME. Check her out online (her reel and her website www.draecampbell.com) and around town.

Michelle Brotman is a radical social worker/community organizer, and a staffer at Bluestockings Bookstore. TELL will be her first official storytelling engagement; however, popular consensus holds that Michelle is a magnet for awkward coincidences and absurd encounters–which friends have begun referring to as “Mich-haps”–and she enjoys sharing the sagas of her tragicomedy existence with friends, the internet, and just about anyone who will listen. Michelle is also passionate about cats, knishes, and karaoke.

Katina Douveas has been scrawling writings to the world from pen and paper or napkin or the back of the hand since forever. born in detroit, the poet came to brooklyn to chase the embarkings of literal and literary adventure. katina has pounded pavement in new york city as a jack-of-many-trades for over a decade, and has kept afloat by kidsitting or working as a personal assistant to make free time for passion, spitting poetry, writing, protesting, loving, scheming and dreaming of new heights.

​Sabrina Chap is a beautiful disaster. She’s a cabaret artist and editor of Live Through This—On Creativity and Self-Destruction. sabrinachap.com

Rachel Bookbinder enjoys old records, feminism, Pomeranians, and carbs. She works in health education and is also a visual artist. Her creative work includes jewelry, millinery, photography, and more. For more information, please visit www.rachelbookbinderartist.com