Storytime! is a monthly reading series featuring New York's best up-and-coming writers.

Each show is bound together by a theme, and each writer creates a new story based on that theme, just for the show. So when you hear the story it's the first time it's been read, anywhere!

Stories can be personal, fantasies, science-fiction, sensual, or anything you can imagine. (Usually they're pretty funny, too!)

Storytime! Four writers, one theme, 40 minutes!

Produced and hosted by David Serchuk.

Sunday, APRIL 16 at 7pm

Straight up: You won’t want to miss Storytime this April 16. If you go to one Storytime all year, go to this one, because, seriously, we are flipping the script.

We took four excellent writers: Saara Dutton, Pete Olson, Ari Voukydis and David Silverman and–instead of giving them one theme to write on–we had them all collaborate on ONE LONG STORY. And yes I lied, a little, there is a theme: Hey, Mr. DJ!

But there’s a catch: The story is formatted like the old grade school game Telephone: So Saara wrote the first part of the story, then handed it to Pete. Pete wrote the second part and handed it to Ari ... but he didn’t hand Saara’s part over. Ari wrote his bit and handed it to David, you get the idea. What will the story become from start to finish? No one knows. And that’s the fun part.

The writers:

Saara Dutton’s work has appeared in Salon, Bust magazine, The St. Petersburg Times and her latest story about The Museum of Discarded Décor was recently published in The New York Times.

Peter Olson has written and performed and read at venues including Telephone Bar, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, the Irish Rep and the PIT. He serves as the coordinator for the Yankee Rep writing workshop.

Ari Voukydis is not only the host and producer for the beloved variety show The Shark Show, he is also a standup, writer and improviser. He teaches at the UCBT and can be frequently seen giving his informed opinions on the little screen for various VH1 shows.

David Silverman has written for Wired magazine and Publisher’s Weekly. He is the author of the upcoming book Typo: The Last American Typesetter, published by softskull Press, and also the co-producer of "Writer's Working" a monthly reading series for works-in-progress.