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A person on stage with a microphone.

Esteban Touma hosting a Moth Madison event.

media release: Saturday, September 30, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.

The Moth presents the Madison GrandSLAM Championship live! Experience a battle of wits and words - fierce, hilarious, heartbreaking, and all points between. On this night, using words as weapons, they compete to determine The Moth's GrandSLAM Story Champion.

The evening's theme is MAKING WAVES: Listen as ten StorySLAM champs tell tales of unexpected fortune. The miracle in the morbid, the journey to the destination, or the door that opens when another shuts. Silver-linings and the best of a bad thing. When it rains it pours, but you know there’s a rainbow after the storm.

Featuring stories by Takeyla Benton, Veronica Corcoran, Mark Espanol, Nestor Gomez, Ryan Mulrooney, Gerry Nasi, Charles Payne, Morgan Pfaff, Gregg Potter and Wilson Seeley

Music by East High School students Naiya Dupaty and Trayvon Leal

Hosted by Esteban Touma.

Tickets: $36.00 Advance. This is a General Admission – All Seated Show.

The host: A part Palestinian/part Latino immigrant from Ecuador, Esteban Touma is a teacher, writer and comedian adjusting to life in the US. Besides being an educator and content producer for the language-learning platform Babbel, his comedy has been featured on Comedy Central, NPR, and Sirius XM. He has been a contributor to Wisconsin Public Radio and PBS, and as a Babbel spokesperson, he has been featured in The Guardian, the BBC, Newsweek, and many other publications. The U.S. Government officially declared him an “authorized legal alien with a reentry permit.”