EST's "Truth Be Told"

From TRUTH BE TOLD's February 2nd, 2026 show ("The Moment I Knew") David Zellnik's "Backroom Blessings" is a story of gay life in the early 90s, gay sex in the old East Village, and a scared 20-something desperate to connect. David writes plays and musicals, and when he gets blue, likes to imagine it's 500 years from now and somehow humanity survived (along with...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's April 7th, 2026 show ("The Thee-uh-tuh") Eric Conger's “The Barn” is a memory piece about falling in love with theater in a converted barn, which brimmed with love and laughter for a few short years, then entered a long sad decline, never to be used again. In addition to playwriting and screenwriting, both original and adaptive stories, Eric Conger has narr...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's February 2nd, 2026 show ("The Moment I Knew") Susan Kim's "The Dance" is a story in which nothing​ can persuade a young woman to join in on a family celebration... except maybe an unexpected encounter? If there were pedigrees in writing, Susan Kim would be a stray cat: documentaries, plays, books, kids' TV, and even a Martha Stewart Christmas...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's April 7th, 2026 show ("The Thee-uh-tuh") Akyiaa Wilson's “Anything You Can Do” tells the story of a budding musical star who knows she SLAYED in her try out as Annie Oakley  – umm, so why don’t her classmates agree?  Akyiaa Wilson is an actor, writer, comprehensive personal aesthetics professional, and cardigan fetishist, born and raised in Brooklyn. Cute b...

A Halloween 2026 treat! From TRUTH BE TOLD's September 25th, 2025 show ("Scary Monsters!") Kevin Fisher's "Monsters Always Want to Party" is a story about rabitting, which was a lifelong tool for evading monsters and bullies,... until it perhaps met its match.  Kevin Fisher is a playwright and a trained epidemiologist who worked globally in HIV prevention advocacy for...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's April 7th, 2026 show ("The Thee-uh-tuh") David Zellnik's "Playacting" is a story about three kids in a suburb making theatre for their parents, and a suburban mom making up songs to beat back the demons.  David Zellnik is the author of a lot of plays and musicals, including one called LOVEVILLE that will open in New York in March 2026 with the TOS...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's February 2nd, 2026 show ("The Moment I Knew") Helen Coxe's "The Affair" is a story about life being exhilarating—and messy—after a happenstance meeting... Helen Coxe lives in NYC is an actress & sometimes writer. TRUTH BE TOLD was created by Susan Kim and David Zellnik and each episode was produced and scored by Eric Svejcar. Logo designed by...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's April 7th, 2026 show ("The Thee-uh-tuh") Susan Kim's "Face" is a story that asks how low would you go to break into show business? A story about dreams, hopes... and low-budget reality. Susan Kim writes plays, documentaries, novels, nonfiction, and kids' TV. She wonders if it's because no one form can truly contain her wild soul... or th...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's February 2nd, 2026 show ("The Moment I Knew") John Augustine's "Inside Norman's Bathroom" is a story about 1969, visiting grandma’s house, a lava lamp. the Virgin Mary...  and whatever the secret is “Inside Norman’s Bathroom." JOHN AUGUSTINE’S plays have been produced in NYC at The Zipper, HERE, Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mir...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's April 7th, 2026 show ("The Thee-uh-tuh") Jenna Jackson's "Whoopi & Me" tells the story of a little girl who learns everything she knows about what's funny by watching the hilarious Black comics of the 80s and 90s. Then she stumbles on a totally different kind of comedy role model.... Jenna Jackson is a storyteller, screenwriter/playwright...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's February 2nd, 2026 show ("The Moment I Knew") Cecilia deWolf's "Far Side of Despair" is a story set in 1970, about a young woman who has just traveled west to attend university. On her first night at a college party, she steps into another realm... Cecilia deWolf is an actor, writer, coach/consultant, and traveler on life’s adventurous path. TRUTH...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's April 7th, 2026 show ("The Thee-uh-tuh") Andrew Gerle's "Beaver Creek" describes his brush with a theater legend and a trip to Canadian jail. A classical pianist by training, musical director and composer Andrew Gerle somehow found himself early in his career working with musical theater legends like Hal Prince, Kitty Carlisle Hart, John Raitt, Le...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's February 2nd, 2026 show ("The Moment I Knew") Laura Maria Censabella's "My Rumspringa Year"  is a story about what happens when you fall in love with a god... and do exactly what you want to do when you want to do it... for an entire year. Is it heaven—or hell? Laura Maria Censabella has received three grants from the New York Foundation for the A...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's September 25th, 2025 show ("Scary Monsters!") Akyiaa Wilson's "Peace of Mind" tells the story of a terrifying inheritance possibly being passed down along generations of a Caribbean-American family…. Akyiaa Wilson is an actor, writer, comprehensive personal aesthetics professional, andcardigan fetishist, born and raised in Brooklyn. Cute baby pics...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's June 10th, 2025 show ("First Love/First Lust") Maggie Bofill's "The Tumor Speaks" is a story about one human, against all odds, came to be born—after the Cuban revolution, and with the help of her gay uncle... Maggie is an actor and writer. Her play Drawn and Quartered was a New York Times critics pick. Other productions of plays she’s written hav...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's September 25th, 2025 show ("Scary Monsters!") David Zellnik's "The Dodger" tells the story of an overweight kid, and a monster lurking in the dark of a high school theatre... David is a writer in New York who loves telling stories, making old-fashions, drinking old-fashions, and showing you pictures of his cat Jupiter. For more on the writing part...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's June 10th, 2025 show ("First Love/First Lust") Susan Kim's "Meat" is a story of how a little girl glimpses her future in a bag that contains a terrible secret... Susan writes plays, books, documentaries, and quite a bit of kids' TV. A flaneuse who fortunately lives in Manhattan, the best city for that kind of thing, she loves animals and funn...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's September 25th, 2025 show ("Scary Monsters!") Christine Farrell's "The Monster and the Choice"  tells tha story about a Pirate Dream that haunted a child's love of her sister... Christine is a versatile New York theater veteran, playwright, and dedicated educator. Her performance background ranges from classical stage roles inUncle Vanya to i...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's June 10th, 2025 show ("First Love/First Lust") Holli Harms' "Life" is a story about the giving of a young woman's virginity and how the memory of that magical day comes back years later at her father's wake. Holli is a writer of plays, screenplays, short stories and is a writing instructor with Writopia Lab, and a reviewer for Front Row...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's September 25th, 2025 show ("Scary Monsters!") Fernando Buzhar Segall's "That Time Hannibal Lecter Ruined My Dad's Filmmaking Dream" tells the story of the collapse of one movie director's ambitions after an on set encounter with a genuine monster... Fernando is a Brazilian born writer based in NYC for 10 years. He is a recent recipient o...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's June 10th, 2025 show ("First Love/First Lust") Michael Walek's "Brian Kinney" tells how a secret late-night TV show changed one boy's life.   Michael Walek is a director, producer, and writer based in New York City.  TRUTH BE TOLD was created by Susan Kim and David Zellnik and each episode was produced and scored by Eric Svejcar. Logo designe...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's September 25th, 2025 show ("Scary Monsters!") Laura Maria Censabella's "Count Yorga, Vampire" tells the story of a  campy movie monster who teaches a child her first lessons in human betrayal. Laura has received three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts in Playwriting and Screenwriting, and her play Carla Cooks The War won the Saroyan...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's June 10th, 2025 show ("First Love/First Lust") David Zellik's  "Untitled Typewriter Story" tells of what happens when David's mom discovers a porn he has written on her hand-me-down typewriter. He is 12 years old.  DAVID ZELLNIK is a playwright, lyricist, and monologist based in NYC and Vienna. Also he was once a nerdy gay kid in 1980’s South...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's September 25th, 2025 show ("Scary Monsters!") Chris Gonzalez's "Evan; or, The Witch King of Belmont" tells the story of a very damaged, very human monster stalking Portland, Oregon. Chris Gonzalez is a playwright based in Brooklyn, NY, and Portland, OR. He is the playwright for the Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble. Last year, with PETE, he w...

From TRUTH BE TOLD's June 10th, 2025 show ("First Love/First Lust") Akyiaa Wilson's "Storytime" tells of what happens when a potentially clueless girl finds herself alone with the cutest boy in class... who also happens to be the school's drug dealer.  Akyiaa Wilson is an actor, writer, comprehensive personal aesthetics professional and cardigan fetishist born an...