Hosted by Natacha Ruck
7:00 p.m. at The Marsh Berkeley
Music
Lou Pinn, songs
Stories
Annette Roman, Nature’s Miracle
It’s September 9th, 2020, in the Bay Area. “Orange Skies Day.” Covid lockdown. And there’s a strange smell in Annette’s living room… No, not smoke. Not despair. Something funky. Something mildewy. Something… festering. And she will stop at nothing to get it out of her home! It’s time for a miracle—Nature’sMiracle™!
Jaguar Bennett, I Was a Teenage Antichrist
As a teen, Jaguar was the only out atheist in his notch of the California Bible Belt. When every wannabe youth pastor in school tried to convert him, Jaguar declared, “God is dead—and I’m taking his job.”
Edna Mira Raia, Edna and company (excerpt)
Edna’s brain spills out more characters and as usual, she has a hard time containing them.
About the Performers
Annette Roman is the writer/performer of three solo shows—Hitler’s Li’l Abomination, Animal Love, and Inauguration Vacation—which have toured 16 fringe festivals worldwide. She is currently writing screenplays, including Traders (a supernatural, historical thriller about the Rhode Island slave trade) and Legacy (a limited series about family inheritance, corrupt caretakers, and neo-Nazis). She has returned to solo performance after a hiatus so she may once again hear people laugh at her jokes in real time.
Jaguar Bennett is a stand-up comedian, writer, PR huckster, idle government bureaucrat, and former producer of the Fresno Rogue Performance Festival.
Edna Mira Raia is an acclaimed comedic character performer who has toured internationally for years. She is a twenty year resident of San Francisco and graduate of Second City Chicago. Her first solo show, Altars for my Alters, won Best of SF Fringe. She trained in clowning and mime and is now a writer, producer, dramaturg, director and drag artist.
Lou Pinn is a Californian—at home in the hills and along the coast. He is inspired by the poetic in all its forms, from the sound of the sea all night to every honest soul.