Stories
- Joe Cole, The Train Outta ICU
- Tim Ereneta, Tales from the Urban Campfire
- Scott Ullman, A Walk to Remember
- Sally Holzman, Dunkirk Challenge
- Tina D’Elia, The Breakup. There’s a Show for That?
Music
Duncan Carling, instrumental jazz and blues
About the Performers
Joe Cole began his acting career in 1980, after moving to the Bay Area from his native Atlanta. Joe has performed in film and network TV and has bagged a few radio and TV commercials along the way, but theatre is his first love. He will always have a special fondness for his role as Ollie Olson in Eugene O’Neill’s Four Plays of the Sea.
Tim Ereneta does not make films, manage corporate brands, design video games, photograph weddings, parse data, write marketing copy, or investigate news stories. What he does do is tell folktales, fairy tales, and the occasional shaggy dog story to audiences. Live. Without notes. Apparently there is not a word for this.
Scott Ullman is currently an adult librarian at Berkeley Public Library, but he’s worked in libraries for over 30 years. A life-time political activist, Scott spent 13 years organizing in the nonviolent social change movement as a paid organizer. A member of Stagebridge, Mr. Ullman is doing storytelling in the Oakland Unified School district for second graders, and he’s also active with Books for Wider Horizons providing weekly book reading, storytelling, puppetry, etc. with preschoolers in Oakland.
The past of radio, books and stories offers storyteller Sally Holzman grist for stories for today. Mining her childhood, this time boarding schools, she finds little gems to share, with the hope that they brighten the listeners day.
Tina D’Elia, owner/founder of Tina D’Elia Consulting is a Performance Coach, Casting Director, Workshop Facilitator, and Actor. About her piece tonight: Where does our protagonist Me go when faced with heartache from a recent breakup? As memories, music, and familiar places come raining down… Me finds herself running right into the Recent Breakup Support Group. Here is the place where despair and hope dance between the habitual questions of “What Happened?” “What Now?” “How long will this last?” and “Where is my time-machine?”