Funny But True: An Evening with Shelley Berman, Sandra Tsing Loh, and MPW Student Storytellers

From August 10, 2010. Performances by comedian/actor Shelley Berman, writer/performer Sandra Tsing Loh, and students from USC's Master of Professional Writing Program.

Program:

Opening remarks by Brighde Mullins, Director of the Master of Professional Writing Program.

Introduction by Prince Gomolvilas, Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program.

Stories performed by students in MPW's comic storytelling workshop.

Shelley Berman's comedy albums earned him three gold records, and he won the first Grammy Award for a non-musical recording. He was the first stand-up comedian to play Carnegie Hall. Since 2002, Berman has appeared as Larry David's father on CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a role for which he received a 2008 Emmy Award nomination. He continues to do film and television work and make personal appearances across the country year-round. He has authored three books, two plays, several TV pilot scripts and numerous poems. For more than 20 years, Berman taught humor writing in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC, where he is now a lecturer emeritus.

Sandra Tsing Loh is a writer-performer whose books include MOTHER ON FIRE; A YEAR IN VAN NUYS; ALIENS IN AMERICA; DEPTH TAKES A HOLIDAY: ESSAYS FROM LESSER LOS ANGELES; and a novel, IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW, which the Los Angeles Times named as one of the 100 best fiction books of 1998. Currently, KPCC broadcasts her daily segment THE LOH DOWN ON SCIENCE and her weekly segment THE LOH LIFE. American Public Media's Marketplace broadcasts her monthly segment THE LOH DOWN. Loh is currently a contributing editor for The Atlantic Monthly. She teaches humor writing in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC.

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