Our Eyes Are Fixed On: Cindy Sherman at the DMA
Oral History: Season 2 Finale-Old School
8 show in 8 months and every single one sold out! Dallas, we hear you. You want to share in the very best in true, personal storytelling and Oral Fixation is here to provide the platform.
Here’s a recap of how we brought it all home “Old School” style:
Take a Walk Down Memory Lane for our Final Show of Season 2: Old School!
It’s here folks: the end of the second season of Oral Fixation! We are capping it all off with a night of throwbacks; that’s right, we’re going Old School!
Here’s what you have to look forward to story-wise:
Our Eyes Are Fixed On: Jonathan Schlesinger
The jovial Mr. Jonathan Schlesinger will be unraveling a tale about growing up at a prep school in England for our last show of Season 2!
Jonathan was born in New York City. He spent the first seven years of his life in South Africa. He went to school in England and attended College in the USA. He lives near White Rock Lake in Dallas with his wife, 2 dogs, 3 cats and 5 chickens. Read more
Our Eyes Are Fixed On: Darek Tatum
The hilarious Darek Tatum hits the Oral Fixation stage to tell us about a special church visit in college that has stayed with him ever since!
By day Darek Tatum is a web designer for Half Price Books and a father of identical twin girls. By not day, he’s doing improv at Dallas Comedy House, being generally annoying on Twitter, and still a father to identical twin girls.
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Our Eyes Are Fixed On: Shama Shams
The beautiful, Bangladeshi-born Shama Shams will be taking us back to her first moments in America for Old School!
Shama Shams is a mother of two girls, wife, and a writer of nonfiction. She was born and lived in Bangladesh until she was ten. She has a master’s degree in Women in Islam from Florida State University. She works as a Development Director for a nonprofit in McKinney.
Fixated Facts:
Name of your autobiography (if you had one)- I am currently working on a memoir titled “Throw Away Girl.”
If you could meet anyone dead or alive, who? My father because I never really got to know him.
Favorite Dallas hangout-at my home with my husband and our girls.
What do you miss about being a kid?- Climbing coconut trees.
Sneak Peek: “Sometimes the kids left a note on top of my desk for me. I didn’t know what it said but I looked at their drawings. I would draw a smiley face and place it back on top. I attempted to communicate with the outside world without leaving my safe haven.”
Our Eyes Are Fixed On: George Palmer
The well-mannered Mr. George Palmer is set to take the Oral Fixation stage for the final show of Season 2!
George Palmer grew up in south Florida and lives in Dallas. For a living he writes on-line Help for telecommunication networking software. His dreams are to write good fiction and play a set of tennis at Wimbledon. George and his wife Wendy have a son, Noah, 23. Read more
Our Eyes Are Fixed On: Renee Rossi
The bold and brave Detroit native is set to take us back to her Michigan school days, and we are excited!
Renée Rossi is forever grateful to America’s third world city, Detroit, for making every other place in the world seem appealing. She writes poetry, creates visual art and is a student of Ayurveda. She is trained as an ENT doctor and holds an MFA in creative writing. Read more
Our Eyes Are Fixed On: Ken Bethea
Your eyes did not deceive you! The Old 97′s own Ken Bethea is moseying on down to the Oral Fixation Stage!
Raised in a forest in East Texas, Ken fled the Piney Woods for the Dallas in 1988. He started the Old 97′s in 1993 and has spent the last 20 years driving around the country bending guitar strings and looking for the perfect breakfast. He lives in Lake Highlands and is married with two kids. Read more
Story from “Have A Field Day” featuring Monty Daniels
Theme: “Have A Field Day”
Storyteller: Monty Daniels
Monty Daniels paints the picture of a young soldier’s passion for Kitchen Patrol.
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