SHRAKE: PERFORMER
Shrake has done comedy, storytelling, and other performing arts in cities nationwide including San Francisco, Detroit, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston/Cambridge.
Shrake performing in Brandon Wetherbee's YMTE "Top 5" at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. You haven't lived till you've been on the Jumbotron over by the snack bar in the Hall of Flags at the KC.
Shrake performing Gnomes at Artisphere in Arlington, VA.
Shrake: Purveyor of stand-up comedy, storytelling, singing (!)
Saturday Night Standup Comedy Showcase at the Comedy Studio in Cambridge, MA.
The night I won The Moth in Detroit, at Cliff Bell's.
Shrake at The Moth StorySlam at The Bitter End in NYC.
Competing in the First Person Arts storytelling GrandSlam at the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
My name up in chalk in Brooklyn at Union Hall
Streisand-orama for Mortified at The Make Out Room, San Francisco
World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
Shrake far left as winner (not Shrake) announced at The Moth GrandSlam Detroit (1st one) at Gem Theater, Detroit, MI
Gnomes for Mortified at 92YTribeca, New York, NY
My face on the wall and me doing something over to the right before performing at Thirst in Washington, DC
First time I performed at DC Improv, in the Lounge, before Story League started putting on shows in the main showroom
Shrake (far right) with Adam Ruben, Cathy Alter, and others in Mortified at the Phillips Collection museum in Washington, DC.
Good old Wonderland Ballroom in Washington, DC!
Shrake with back to camera, with Elahe Izadi, Haywood Turnipseed, Christian Hunt and others at Capital Fringe Festival, Washington, DC
In The Soundtrack Series at (le) poisson rouge, New York, NY (Photo: Spencer Ritenour)
Stoop Storytelling at National Craft Festival at Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Encyclopedia Show, The Dunes, Washington, DC
Judging the District Karaoke Citywide Finals, Penn Social, Washington, DC
The night I won First Person Arts' Intercity Storyslam (Philly vs. Detroit) at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Backstage at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
OK, you get the idea. Other venues Shrake's played (not pictured) include, in DC: Town Danceboutique, Yards Park, Black Fox Lounge, Arts Club of Washington, DC Arts Center, Science Club, Chief Ike’s, Bier Baron Tavern, U Street Music Hall, Looking Glass Lounge, Smithsonian; in Philly: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dive Bar, L'etage, The Shubin Theatre, Underground Arts; in NYC: PIANOS, UCB East, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, littlefield; in Baltimore: Centerstage; in Cambridge, MA: Oberon.
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