Stories
- Elliott Gittelsohn, “All Summer In A Day”
- Summer Shapiro, “Phyliss and Demophon”
- Ajina, “Me Shaped”
- Ruth Halpern, “Do you feel lucky tonight?”
- Frank Turco, “Homo Sapiens TODAY”
Music
Pleiades, a woman’s neo-celtic harp trio
Mirabelle Korn, Portia Diwa, and Liza Wallace
About the Performers
Elliott Gittelsohn, a recent graduate of South Burlington High School in Vermont, also attends The Clown Conservatory in San Francisco, and teaches circus and aerial arts to children at Splash Circus in Emeryville.
Summer Shapiro recently graduated form UCLA’s School of Drama and now attends (you guessed it!) The Clown Conservatory in San Francisco while working with Rhodessa Jones on her next Medea Project.
After honing his physical skills for 15 years in the martial arts, Ajina turned to performance through storytelling, and enjoys sharing a good tale with a willing audience. He also can be found plying his skills at the San Francisco Circus Center’s Clown Conservatory.
Frank Turco’s Sir Kensington Longbottom, inspired by the Commedia dell’arte, has been in the works for about a year and a half. Homo Sapiens TODAY (in various stages of development) has played in venues such as The Marsh, Traveling Jewish Theatre (as part of the furyfest), San Francisco’s Dark Room, and other reputable anthropological locations.
Ruth Halpern performs and teaches storytelling and writing workshops for all ages in schools, libraries, storytelling festivals, and river rafts. The LA Times calls her “a spellbinding master storyteller” and her recording, She Set Out to Seek Her Fortune: Tales of Adventures Heroines, was voted one of the top 25 children’s recordings of the past 25 years by the Parents’ Choice Foundation.