Bawdy's Cum Again? Stories of Near Misses and Second Chances!

November 6, 2026

at the Verdi Club

2424 Mariposa, San Francisco

Doors Open at 7, Stories at 8 PM

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"The Moth for Pervs"

- LA Weekly

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This Legendary Event features curated True - & NSFW! - Stories, Songs, Connections & Community

Get ready for:

❤ An Iconic Evening, Hosted by her Vajesty Dixie De La Tour

❤ NPR Snap Judgment Storyteller of the Year Don Reed 

❤ Award-winning filmmaker, author, & performance artist Madison Young

❤ Award-winning Cartoonist and Educator Justin Hall

❤ Professional and Llfestyle FemDom Bufy DaDick Slayr

❤ Music by Bawdy’s beloved singer-songwriter Jefferson Bergey

❤ Play Bang-O to make new Friends (& FWBs) 💋

❤ Make your own Magic with Magic Wand

❤ The coolest Prizes from SportSheets

❤ Gorgeously Goodies from Le Wand

❤ Cleverly Kinky tools from The Kink Store

❤ Prizes & Giveaways from our Favorite Lube, Uberlube

❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails, YUM

Performer Bios:

❤ Her Vajesty Dixie De La Tour is a Story, Communication and Performance Coach, a Podcaster, Impresario, an IRL Enthusiast, but most of all, a Community builder. She is also the Founder, Curator & Host of the Award-winning storytelling series, Bawdy Storytelling (called “The Moth for Pervs” by the LA Weekly, and “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” by Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational, relatable, and empowering performances.

This story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe, reduce social anxiety and build connection. She has performed and presented at Podcast Movement, SketchFest, the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, The Naked Truth, Porchlight, Muni Diaries, In A Nutshell, Memoir Spool, Fireside Storytelling and many other local storytelling shows. In addition to story coaching and public speaking coaching (for TEDx, Women in Technology, and her own Bawdy Storytelling & BawdySlam series), Dixie offers both one-on-one private story coaching (How to Be Bawdy and How to be Fascinating) and teaches ‘Storytelling for Job Seekers’ to help you ace that big job interview. Plus she’s been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame, and in her free time, she enjoys being a Muppet.

Her beloved live grassroots stage performance series, Bawdy Storytelling, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year!, and the top 2% Bawdy Storytelling podcast has hundreds of 5 star reviews, almost 300 episodes and millions of downloads - plus its won ‘Best Of’s from Oprah Magazine, Forbes, Mashable, Buzzfeed, GQ Magazine, Marie Claire, Uproxx, Women’s Health, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Esquire Magazine and more.

❤ Don Reed was born and raised in Oakland, CA with no intention of becoming a comedian and storyteller, but life had other ideas. Don is an NPR Snap Judgment Storyteller of the Year and a newly minted Simon & Schuster author. His 9 solo storytelling shows have won and been nominated for multiple Theatre Bay Area, Off Broadway, and San Francisco Theatre Critics Circle awards. He was triple nominated for the 2024 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Bay Area Awards for Best Solo Performance/Best Play/Best Director. Reed was also the longtime opening act/warm-up comedian for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He recently partnered with Johnny Carson's - Carson Entertainment Group for his multi-media one man show "The Never Too Late Show", sharing producing duties with Seinfeld writer Pat Hazell. Don is the host and creator of Marin’s Redwood Nights: Storytelling Under the Stars - sharing producing duties with friend and entertainment partner Mike Ghiringhelli. Be sure to check out Don Reed’s (usually sold out) storytelling show, Redwood Nights!

❤ Madison Young is an award-winning filmmaker, author, curator, and performance artist whose work dismantles boundaries between art, politics, and the body. Young creates and hosts the LGBTQ+ travel docuseries Submission Possible, streaming on Amazon Prime and Revry TV. Their feature film By the Roots, adapted from their memoir Daddy and starring Ally Sheedy and Margaret Cho, hits a theater near you in time for Valentine’s Day. Next up under their banner Empress in Lavender Media: a sci-fi time-travel feature shooting this summer and a very sexy queer thriller loosely based on the myth of Persephone and Hades. Young is a pioneer of the feminist porn movement and Artistic Director of the Alchemy Film Foundation. They just opened a new art space and indie film studio in Berkeley for badass artists, writers, filmmakers, and mischief makers. Visit BytheRootsFilm.com, EmpressInLavenderCoworking.com, and EmpressinLavenderMedia.com.

❤ Justin Hall is an award-winning cartoonist and educator. Hall created the comics True Travel Tales, Hard to Swallow, and Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers, and has work in publications such as the Houghton Mifflin Best American Comics, Best Erotic Comics, and the SF Weekly. He created the Lambda-Award-winning and Eisner-nominated collection No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics and was Producer on the feature-length documentary of the same name, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Best Documentary Award at Outfest in 2021. Hall is the Chair of the MFA in Comics at California College of the Arts, the first Fulbright Scholar of comics, has written about comics for various academic publicat ions, and has curated international exhibitions of comics art.

❤ Bufy DaDick Slayr is a San Francisco Bay Area professional and lifestyle FemDom dedicated to cultivating FemDom community. She is the creator and host of Commanding Grace, a FemDom Afternoon (FemDom Tea) where Dominant women gather to celebrate FemDom community and sisterhood over canapés and tea, while service submissives see to the Dommes' every desire. Her previous credits include performing at SF Sketchfest, the reenactment television series I Almost Got Away With It, the magazine Volup2.com, and her right titty head butted Danny DeVito on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. A showboat across multiple mediums, she is delighted to make her debut on the Bawdy Storytelling stage. Wanna know more? www.BufyDaDickSlayr.com

❤ Jefferson Bergey is musically promiscuous. The Oakland-based singer-songwriter, MC, game-show host, and professional vocalist at-large has been writing and performing for Bawdy Storytelling! for ten years. In the realm of comedy and variety shows he’s been seen at Punchline SF, San Jose Improv, SF Sketchfest, Ruckus and Rumpus Revival, and has written custom songs for San Francisco’s MUNI Diaries and Laughs For Life.

As a solo act Bergey has been “negotiating covers” for the past decade as a live-looping solo act at private parties, weddings, corporate events, and music venues all over the greater Bay Area. He’s the namesake of Chef Matt Woods’ Bergey Burger, voted three-times “Best of the Bay”, currently served at Scopo Divino in San Francisco where he recently completed a 250 show residency.

You can see him fronting the Allman Brothers Tribute: Freestone Peaches, Crosseyed & Painless: The Music of Talking Heads, as a virtual game show host for WEVE (The Go Game), and featuring with Jazz Mafia’s Grateful Brass and Fog City Swing. When he isn’t performing, he’s flying all over the west coast and Hawaii to give lively presentations on leading bands on high-pressure events based on a manual he wrote from his colorful experiences as a wedding singer over the last decade.

In 2024 he became obsessed with the music and story of Frank Sinatra and has sold-out multi-show runs in Sacramento, L.A., and Oakland for Pure Soul Presents, Concerts Under the Stars, and Candlelight Concerts. He produces and performs a quarterly song/storytelling show called Sinatra Saloon; A Tale & A Tune.

Thanks to his supporters on Patreon, Bergey is currently recording a sonic-graphic-novel set to songs and narration. His most recent single release, ‘W.Y.D.O.T.D. pt. 1’ (originally written for Bawdy Storytelling) is one of the songs from that gritty story and can be found on your favorite streaming service.. (Listener Discretion Advised!)

• No refunds, but tickets may be exchanged

• Lineup subject to change

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