This is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm Jay Allison, producer of this radio show, and in this episode, we're bringing

you stories from a live show at the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights, New York City.

It was produced with the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Partnership, and the theme was When You're Home.

This, by the way, was the first audience of any size to be at a moth performance

since the beginning of the pandemic. Here's your host of the evening, comedy writer and performer,

C.J. Hunt. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the moth. You like that? I start real hunger gamesy. Welcome back to the mall!

We are here at United Palace and I say welcome back because it really does feel like that.

I have not been able to see a moth audience like this, even though this is

just a fraction of that audience. It is beautiful to be able to be with you and see you and to know

that there are thousands at home who are tuning in with us to experience this night. So the moth

is dedicated to true stories told before

a live and partially digital audience. All of these stories are told no notes, no net. What I love

about the craft is it's just a storyteller, their own courage, and you, and your waiting ears

and excited eyes.

The theme, the theme is when you're home.

You are home with us, and from the bottom of my heart, on behalf of the moth, we just want to say, welcome home.

So for each of these storytellers, instead of reading their illustrious bios, we like to introduce them by a question.

And the question is, what are three things that make you feel at home?

And this first storyteller, he said, my wife, my kid, and my other kid.

We are excited to have him here.

Please put all your hands together for Lynn Manuel Miranda.

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