Stories
- Gwen Carmen, 4215 Winrose Way
- Bill Zarchy, The Elevator in Rome
- Sarah Matsui, Hello, Boar– You Must Be Hungry
- Tony Cyprien, The Bus Ride
Music
Doris Moskowitz: early jazz standards
About the Performers
Gwen Carmen is an activist, actress, educator and writer whose work has appeared in Essence, PLEXUS West Coast Women’s Press, and the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal during the ’80’s and ’90’s. She was editor/publisher of La Morena Women of Color bilingual newspaper, and she will appear in a showcase for new performers at The Marsh in May.
Bill Zarchy worked all over the globe during his 40 years as a cinematographer, as captured in his memoir, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil. Now he writes novels and tells stories. He is a graduate of the EPIC Storytelling Program at Stagebridge in Oakland. billzarchy.com
Sarah Matsui is a Taiwanese and Japanese American writer who grew up in Honolulu and has since been based in Philadelphia, Oakland, and now San Francisco. Her work has been featured in NPR’s Code Switch, Jacobin, and Rethinking School‘s “Our 2016 Picks for Books for Social Justice Teaching: Policy.”
Tony Cyprien was born and raised in Watts, California. Seven years ago, he moved to Berkeley where he discovered improv. He proceeded to step out on stage, ultimately performing at a Moth GrandSlam, two Moth Mainstage events, and being broadcast on National Public Radio. He has also performed with Marin Shakespeare’s Returned Citizen’s Troupe, and at Monday Night Marsh, Tell It on Tuesday, Solo Sundays, and BATS Improv as an invited storyteller for The Gather.
Doris Moskowitz is the youngest daughter of Moe Moskowitz, the original owner of Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue. After graduating from Mills College, she began working with her dad, and now it is Doris who owns and operates Moe’s Books, keeping her father’s legacy alive. With a love of words, stories and old movies she sings and plays songs from before 1940.