Stories
- Diane Barnes, My Stroke of Luck
- Tiffany Doesken, Just Like A Woman
- Elaine Magree, Holding the Edge
- Terry Stokes, Bump in the Night
Music
A Few Guys Playing Music: acoustic blues, bluegrass, and Americana
About the Performers
Diane Barnes is an actor and performer of solo work. Meisner trained, she also completed ACT Summer Training Congress, and studied with Anna Deveare Smith. In her first incarnation, she was a physician specializing in diagnostic radiology.
Tiffany Doesken was born and raised in San Francisco into a “non-traditional family”, which taught her to have an acceptance of the unusual. She received an MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her films have screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival, New York Anthology Film Archives, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and many more both in the US and Internationally. She is currently working on a stop-motion animation film and writing solo-performance work.
Elaine Magree’s work has been seen at The Marsh, The Magic Theatre, The Working Women’s Theatre Festival, Brava, The People’s Theatre Festival, The National Women’s Theatre Festival and the 54th St Theatre in New York. She has taught theatre at community colleges, The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and in homeless shelters, recovery programs, and women’s prison.
Terry Stokes began storytelling when he told his first alibi. He grew up listening to his father telling stories, and eventually turned in a 30 year career as an Editor in Hollywood—refining the art of cinematic storytelling by splicing bits of film together. He retired, moved to El Cerrito in 2006, and his wife encouraged him to switch to the other side of the lens, get up on his feet, and start telling stories to live audiences. Once again, he’s very pleased and honored to be back at T.I.O.T. in front of one of the best audiences in the Bay Area.
A Few Guys Playing Music is made up of Jared Karol, Sean Dougan, and Scott Underwood. Jared is a fingerstyle blues and bluegrass guitarist, and more recently a bass player in, of all things, a reggae band. He used to play in Sound of Sirens, a Marin-based Americana band, where he met Scott, an outstanding bass player who has been playing in the Bay Area for decades. Sean is a mandolin and guitar player who used to play regularly in the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe music scenes. Jared and Sean have played far and wide together, most notably in Jared’s basement and Sean’s living room.