February 27, 2024

Music

Duncan Carling, Instrumental Jazz and Blues

Stories

  • Bill Zarchy,  Ecstasy at the Altar
  • Natacha Ruck,  Surprise Movie Night
  • Brian Leonard,  Therapist Zero


About the Performers

Duncan Carling is a lawyer, guitarist, and exasperated parent of teenagers. In his spare time, he enjoys carbohydrates and looking at his phone. He lives in Oakland. 

Bill Zarchy circumnavigated the globe many times during his 40 years as a cinematographer, as captured in his memoir, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil.  Now he likes to write novels and tell tales about his work and travels across six continents. Bill’s debut novel is Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale. He is a graduate of the EPIC Storytelling Program at Stagebridge in Oakland.

Natacha Ruck‘s solo show, You’re good for nothing… I’ll milk the cow myself, was developed at the Marsh and StageWerx and is headed to Fresno and Montreal this Spring.  She’s developing a new hour-long show based on her experiences as an interpreter at international film festivals.

Brian Leonard is an actor, writer, and director who lives in Oakland with his much more talented wife and much, much smarter daughter. He’s written comedy for BBC Radio, was a story consultant for Pixar, and had a long career in stand-up, appearing on numerous brick-wall shows (the San Jose Mercury says that Brian is “… one of San Francisco’s most intelligent and funniest comedians.”) His stage work includes SF Shakespeare, Center Repertory, Theaterworks, and George Coates Performance Works, among others. You can see Brian in the films Bottle Shock, Bee Season, and The Bachelor.