Stories
- Jeanne Haynes, A House Under Water
- Kari Kiernan, Mud Slinging
- David Caggiano, Jurassic Ark
- Evan Karp, Other People (excerpt)
Music
Kaitlin McGaw and the Mr. Right Nows:
Bluesy, Soulful Singer-Songwriter, Vocals, Piano, Bass, Drums, Violin/Saxophone
About the Performers
With her TIOT December performance, Jeanne Haynes celebrated her 15th anniversary of saying “bye bye” to her public relations consulting business to become a full time storytelling performer and teacher. Other venues include the Bay Area Storytelling Festival and in San Francisco: The Marsh, Brava!, City Solo and SF Theater Festival. She has taught some 300 adults in ongoing Stagebridge classes and more than 3,000 students as a schools artist in residence.
Kari Kiernan is a San Francisco writer and storyteller whose work has appeared in Skirt! Magazine and The Morning News, as well as onstage in various places including Porchlight, Previously Secret Information, and Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match. You’ll find her sporadically maintained blog at: http://withraisins.blogspot.com
David Caggiano toured with the Celebration Theatre, led by the late Tony Montanaro. As a playwright, his full length original play Walk Like A Man was produced at the Noh Space and his series of one acts: The Arrival, The Tinker, and The Prophet at the Soma Theatre. Jurassic Ark is David’s first solo play.
Evan Karp is working on Other People, a sprawling and sometimes stalling meditation on consciousness, creation, self, friendship, and society. One of his poems was just turned into an original composition by New York based quartet Rose & the Nightingale. He writes for the San Francisco Chronicle, organizes the nonprofit submission-based reading series/press Quiet Lightning, and edits Litseen.com, a daily calendar and video archive of Bay Area readings. http://evankarp.com
Jazz, Hip Hop, Blues, Pop Rock, Children’s music; stalwart fans of these genres would have trouble finding much crossover or similarities between them, but Oakland-based singer songwriter Kaitlin McGaw does them all. Receiving comparisons to Sara Bareilles, Carole King, and Liz Phair, McGaw has a gift for finding herself in prestigious company and collaborations. Her newest project, Kaitlin McGaw and the Mr. Right Nows, is showcasing her vocal and piano abilities in a bluesy pop rock outfit all over the Bay Area. www.kaitlinmcgaw.com