What?

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7 Deadly Sins Show has built a reputation as one of the most innovative live storytelling shows in the country. Each of our shows blend comedy, tragedy, inspiration, and redemption into riveting stories from real people that show us all what it means to be human. We do this featuring wickedly true tales from artists, comedians, authors, celebrities, religious leaders, and every other kind of sinner imaginable.

A quick review of featured stories for 7DS’s past shows prove truth is indeed far stranger than fiction:

  • The nurse who faced down a professional hitman with her bare hands.

  • The father who lost the ability to see colors after his daughter’s tragic death at Sandy Hook.

  • The junior high student who became the Stolen Hamster Kingpin of Idaho.

  • The young Irani girl who, years after she immigrated to the United States, found herself dining with the men who had bombed her village.

  • The not-yet-out-of-the-closet country-western singer who found herself stranded at a KKK rally.

  • The young comedian who finally got his big break, only to discover it was doing a standup routine in the middle of nowhere for a religious cult.

There is also music. Each 7 Deadly Sins:MainStage show features original music, scored and arranged to match the evening’s stories by some of the Northwest’s premiere indie artist. Past shows have included original music by Lenore’s Joy Pearson and Rebecca Miller, singer/songwriter and Pink Martini collaborator Edna Vasquez, Zola Jesus violist and L.A. Movie Awards Best Score winner Louise Woodward, and of course 7 Deadly Sins’ original house band, Skamokawa Swamp Opera, featuring Giants In The Trees’ Jillian Raye.

You can find out about our current collection of live shows here, which includes 7 Deadly Sins: MainStage, 7DS: Pants On Fire, 7DS: ROUGH DRAFT, 7 Deadly Sins: Voices, 7 Deadly Sins: Saturnalia, and Daria’s Confessional Cabaret with Daria Eliuk.

Who?

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Alina Aliyar - Executive Producer

Alina is one of  Portland’s most respected storytellers. She has told stories for the Moth, Backfence PDX, Roar, Pickathon, Portland Winter Lights Festival, FreeSpeech, Planned Parenthood’s Bad Dates, and It's Not Me, It's You.  She produced 7 Deadly Sins: PRIDE!, our all-LGBTQA storytelling show, and stories for Back Fence PDX.  Alina co-hosts our MainStage show in addition to other shows around Portland.  Alina is also a trained pastry chef, chocolatier, and all-round gluttony enabler.

R. Tod Kelly - Artistic Director/Executive Producer

Tod is a story coach and producer from Portland Oregon, and the creator of 7 Deadly Sins. He is also a freelance writer/journalist. He is currently a contributing editor to marie claire magazine, as well as contributor for the Daily Beast and Ordinary Times. His live stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour, NPR, Dan Savage's Hot Mic, Kevin Allison's RISK!, PRI, the Pickathon Festival, and the Mystery Box Show.

Kahlie Towle - Executive Producer, 7DS: ROUGH DRAFT

Kahlie Towle is an award winning and nationally recognized storyteller. She has toured with The Moth: Main Stage, and her piece “The Real Story” was chosen for the 2016 compilation Best of RISK! In addition, she has told stories at Back Fence PDX, Russian Roulette, Roar, and Wildfang. Kahlie is also a veterinarian technician with an animal-whispering skill that we can only describe as both wondrous and eerie.