Photos: Lisa Lewis For 1001 Nights At The Creek Lounge

1001 Nights opened in April of 2009 and runs on the Friday of the third full week of the month from 7pm to 8pm at The Creek Lounge, a theater and performance space located at 1093 Jackson Avenue, between 49th and 50th Avenues, in Long Island City, Queens, one stop from Manhattan. Admission is free and general seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information visit http://www.thecreekandthecave.com.

Set beneath the glittering disco ball of The Creek Lounge, 1001 Nights brings together New York's rising voices in the world of literature, comedy, and theater to tell shocking, hilarious, and intimate true tales. Each month's show centers around a unique theme, with a selection of stories on that theme (including "Travel," "Replacements," or "First Times"). Chill out as two groovy raconteurs, hosts Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez and Ted McAdams, take over the lounge and set the mood. You wait a 1001 Nights for stories like these.

Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez is a writer, comedian, and monologist based in New York City. He has produced, directed, and hosted 1001 Nights since April 2009 and has performed autobiographical monologues at numerous storytelling events across New York. He has studied at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater and currently performs with his improv troupe Froduce at The Creek Theater in Long Island City. NY and regional credits include The Cat & The Moon (13th St. Repertory), W.H.E.E.L. (Yale), and a glam-rock musical adaptation of The Tempest (Yale). Eugene graduated in 2007 from Yale, where he was a founding member of Yale's Red Hot Poker sketch comedy troupe.

Lisa Lewis is an essayist, playwright, and monologist whose essays have appeared in ELLE Magazine, New York Press, Kirkus Reviews, Biography Magazine, and UR Chicago Magazine. During her six-year tenure as a reader and story analyst with New Line Cinema and Tribeca Productions, Lisa helped develop numerous niche films and Hollywood blockbusters and read too many spy novels to count. Her short play Kiss and Makeup will appear as part of Manhattan Theatre Source's Estrogenius Festival Readings in July 2010. Lisa has been a featured speaker in Susan Shapiro's famed Instant Gratification courses. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (2004).

The Creek and The Cave is a bar, restaurant, lounge and performance space one stop from Manhattan in the heart of Long Island City.