Stories
- Beth McLaughlin, Cocky
- Liz Macera, I’ve Accepted Everyone’s Death but My Own
- Andre LeMont Wilson, The Black Dude Dies First
- Scott Sanders, Apophenia, The Donner Party & Me
- Leslie Scatchard, Leap
Music
Captain Heat and the Nightshades: instrumental blend of jazzy blues and country funk
About the Performers
Beth McLaughlin is a writer and performer of two original full-length works, and several smaller pieces, with a background in theater and improvisation.
Liz Macera, drawing on over 40 years of experience as a nurse, explores the heartbreaks, antics, and taboos surrounding the one event waiting for us all. Liz currently works as a palliative care nurse practitioner. With this piece she hopes to open discussion about death and dying.
Andre Le Mont Wilson performs stories at festivals, story swaps, and open mics throughout the Bay Area. In The Black Dude Dies First, Wilson recounts his first performance on stage in a grammar school’s Bicentennial production in which, you know.… He is honored to perform at Tell It On Tuesday.
Scott Sanders is an ex-actor / ex-New Yorker who moved to the left coast 15 years ago and is still wrestling with cross-cultural challenges. Scott introduced graffiti / urban tagging to the Inner Mongolian territories. He’s scored multiple StorySLAM wins at The Moth and told tales for NPR’s Snap Judgement, Fireside, Porchlight, BustingOut Storytelling and LitQuake and multiple Moth Mainstage events.
Leslie Scatchard grew up in a family where the ability to tell a funny story about your day was a valued asset at the dinner table. She went on to spend twenty years acting on stage, and found a perfect marriage of these two talents in creating and performing solo shows. Leslie is a regular at West Side Stories, a storytelling venue in Petaluma.