Meet the Bloggers

Regular Bloggers

Meredith Maslich  is the Managing Editor of the SpeakeasyDC blog (aka Blog Bizatch), in addition to being a member of SpeakeasyDC’s board of directors, long time teacher, coach and performer. Her weekly column, Everyday Stories looks at the art of social storytelling.  If you have any questions, comments, or compliments about the blog, direct them at her in the comments.

Amy Saidman is the Artistic Executive  Director and founder of SpeakeasyDC.  Amy’s monthly column “Deep Thoughts From the Director”, will give you a view into the mind of our fearless leader.

Mike Kane writes the weekly column Open Mike. Mike started performing for SpeakeasyDC three years ago, and performed in the 2011 Top Shelf show. When he’s not working with SpeakeasyDC, he’s the executive producer for Hoarding: Buried Alive on TLC.

Stephanie Garibaldi is the Education Director for SpeakeasyDC and the open mic coach. She’s been performing, teaching and coaching storytellers since before blogs were a thing. You can find her words of wisdom in the Education Corner of this blog, where she’ll be writing about all thing related to the science and study of storytelling.

Contributors

John Tong jumped onto the SpeakeasyDC scene with a memorable open mic performance, and then moved quickly onto a command performance in the Sucker for Love 2012 ensemble show. His involvement with SpeakeasyDC so far as prompted him to become a self defined expert on performance anxiety.

Jessica Pisciteli Robinson is the CEO of the Virginia based storytelling organization, Better Said Than Done.  She performed her first story on the SpeakeasyDC stage in 2007 and has been performing stories for SpeakeasyDC, Fan-Freaking-Tastic, TEDx, SWAN Day, McLean Bible Church, and any venue or corporate event in need of a great story.  In her spare time, Jessica helps corporate clients tell their story through visual media as owner of Capture Video, Inc.

Cindy Kane is an experienced “Mommy Blogger“, a storyteller, and the director/producer of the 2012 SpeakeasyDC production of Bad Mommy Moments, A Play Date for Mom’s.