Capital J Mainstage: Bess Kalb in conversation with Lauren Eskovitz
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Thursday, Jun 11, 2026 7pm - 8:30pm
Location
Edlavitch DCJCC 1529 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036
Details
Emmy-nominated comedy writer and bestselling author Bess Kalb joins us to discuss what it means to be a Jewish parent in America today.
Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and the New York Times bestselling author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the children’s book series Buffalo Fluffalo. She wrote for eight years for Jimmy Kimmel Live!; has written for the Emmy Awards, the Academy Awards, the Democratic National Convention; and has contributed to The New Yorker and This American Life. She is head writer and executive producer of the Writers Guild Award–nominated Yearly Departed, an Amazon comedy special, and is adapting Nobody Will Tell You This But Me into a feature film with Sight Unseen Pictures. She lives with her husband and two children in New York.
