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Our 20th Anniversary Celebration—June 24, 2025
Cake, specialty cocktails, and of course: stories!
Can you believe it? Twenty years of hosting solo performers and storytellers on the last Tuesday of (almost) every month!
Our 20th Anniversary Celebration not only included a night of live storytelling, we celebrated in the cabaret, with dessert and drinks. Family, friends, past performers, and diehard fans came out to be part of the fun!
Thanks to all of our audience members over the years, whether you were able to join us for our 20th anniversary or not. We couldn’t have done this without you!
Hosted by: Rebecca Fisher, Bridget Frederick, Wayne Harris, Tim Ereneta, Natacha Ruck, Mark McGoldrick
7:00 p.m. at The Marsh Berkeley
Music
Casey Armstrong, rapper, Doug Mckechnie, piano, and Randy Craig, accompanying.
Stories
Tony Cyprien, Jacky (excerpt)
Is it a comedy? A tragedy? You decide. These are stories about the humanity behind prison walls, in spite of everything.
Eleanor Clement Glass, The Maestro
Do you think you can control how your things are distributed after you die? Can you orchestrate how your children will behave and how they will treat one another? My mother’s answer was an emphatic YES, I can!
Charlie Varon, Charlie Varon’s Comic Bonbons
Help comedy heal our nation! Or at least give us a few laughs as we go down the tubes!
About the Performers
Eleanor Clement Glass delights children throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with folktales from around the world. She is a member of the Volunteer Storyteller Corps and a School Tour Docent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Eleanor also performs wonderful family stories from her Black and Filipina cultures. She serves on the Stagebridge Board and is proud to be a Stagebridge Storyteller and student of the performing arts classes that offers.
Tony Cyprien: Grew up in Watts. Raised in Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall, County Camps, California Youth Authority, and California prisons. Freedom at age 47 years, 10 months, and 16 days. Landed in Berkeley with best friend (wife) and improv, then launched.
The SF Chronicle has credited Charlie Varon with “redefining the medium” of solo performance. Charlie’s award-winning shows—all created in collaboration with David Ford—include Rush Limbaugh in Night School, The People’s Violin, Rabbi Sam, and Second Time Around. Charlie’s next solo performance class begins July 1, and he’ll be performing a full evening of bonbons on July 11 in SF. www.charlievaron.com
Casey Armstrong is a hybrid cross between Kendrick Lamar and Tiny Tim, bringing his socially conscious songs and raps to venues throughout the Bay Area, including La Peña and The Fireside Lounge. Casey is a familiar face at the Wednesday Night Cabaret with the Craig and McGregor Band as sometimes performer and most times door man.
Doug McKechnie has been an active participant in the Bay Area’s creative community for over four decades. A pioneer in live performance with the Moog synthesizer, McKechnie began creating scores for film, television and theater, creating soundtracks in 1974 with partner John A. Lewis. Also in the 1980s he created the San Francisco Synthesizer Ensemble creating the Golden Gate Bridge Anniversary Suite in 1987 for the bridge’s 50th Anniversary. Doug can be seen and heard often at the Wednesday Night Marsh Cabaret singing with the Craig and McGregor Band.