FIRST DRAFT INSTRUCTOR + HOST
Andrea Askowitz created Lip Service: True Stories Out Loud, a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge award-winning show. For nine years, Lip Service played to audiences 600 strong. Andrea has written for The New York Times, HuffPost, NBC NEWS, Salon, Glamour, The Rumpus, The Writer,PBS, NPR, and more. She's the author of My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy, editor of Badass, and creator of All Sides of the Story, a live storytelling series. She is also our teacher, producer, and host.
PRODUCER + HOST
Margery Berger has been writing with Writing Class Radio since we started in 2015. She’s come to every class and has become an avid writer and teacher. She’s now the host of First Draft every Monday at noon and teaches a Second Draft class.
Before learning to write personal stories, she wrote a blog, mostly about food and a little bit about shopping. She loves to bake and spends way too much time reading the Style Section of the NY Times.
She has been published in Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Home Miami Magazine, Next Tribe, and been on the Writing Class Radio podcast. She also participated in Lip Service, a live Miami storytelling event.
Past Team Members
PRODUCER + HOST
Allison Langer is a Miami native, University of Miami MBA, writer and a single mom to three children, ages 15, 18 and 20. She is a private writing coach and taught memoir writing in prison. Allison's stories have appeared in The Washington Post, Mutha Magazine, Scary Mommy, Ravishly, She'SAID' and 50GS Magazine, NextTribe, and Huff Post. She's our teacher, producer and host. Allison is currently querying her memoir with Clifton K. Jones, an inmate at Everglades Correctional.
PRODUCER
Matt Cundill started voicing radio ads in the 90’s. As his career progressed, he began to branch out into voice work for television, films, and working with e-learning companies and voice solutions groups. In 2015, he started working in voice full time and completed over 750 projects in 2018. Matt is now president of The Sound Off Media Company that offers audio solutions and podcast creation for entrepreneurs.