January 30, 2018

Stories

  • Annette Roman, Inauguration Vacation
  • Tony Cyprien, Work in Progress
  • Theresa Donahoe, Confessions of a White Mexican
  • Geoff Hoyle, Fake: (based on a true story)

Music

Stuart Rosh, guitar and vocals


About the Performers

Annette Roman is the creator/performer of 3 solo shows—Hitler’s Li’l AbominationAnimal Love, and Inauguration Vacation—performed at 15 theater festivals to date in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. She is a member of the Berkeley Monday Night Playground writer’s pool and her short plays have been performed at SF Olympians, PianoFight, and at the Playwrights Center of San Francisco’s PlayOffs. 

Tony Cyprien was born and raised in Watts, California, but now lives in Berkeley, where he discovered improv. Since stepping out on stage, he has won a Moth StorySlam, performed at two Moth MainStage events, and has been broadcast on National Public Radio. Tony has also performed for Marin Shakespeare’s Social Justice Troupe and the Marsh’s Monday Night Marsh. Tonight he is sharing new material. 

Theresa Donahoe is an actress who recently started performing solo pieces. Her first full length solo show, Late Bloomer, made its debut at the Rogue Fringe Festival in March 2017. Confessions of a White Mexican is her latest solo piece and is currently being developed into her next full length show.

Geoff Hoyle, maybe best known as Zazu in the original Broadway cast of The Lion King, has been an actor and clown (Pickle Family Circus, Cirque du Soleil) for more than 50 years, appearing nationally and internationally and in many plays and solo performances in the Bay Area at ACT, Berkeley Rep and The Marsh where he collaborated with David Ford on Geezer and Lear’s Shadow.

Stuart Rosh has made four albums with national distribution, one of which hit the Top 40 on the Americana Music Association chart back in the day. Stuart Rojstaczer is a geophysicist (who was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator back in the day) and has written a SF Chronicle and American Booksellers Association bestselling novel. Rosh and Rojstaczer are the same person. He is currently trying to get decent at bocce and his next novel will be out in 2018.