Stories
- Karen Ripley, On Line Funeral
- Maryclare McCauley, The Road to Revenge
- Bill Zarchy, The Battle of the Bay
About the Performers
Karen Ripley has been performing for over 35 years as a comic and improviser. She came on to the gay comedy scene in 1977 in San Francisco. She was featured on the cover of the East Bay Express with Whoopi Goldberg in the mid-80’s. She won 2005 SF Fringe Best Musical Comedy with Annie Larson, in the original play Show Me where it Hurts. Featured in 2007 Logo TV’s Wisecrack, episode 2. Ripley’s original show Oh No, There’s Men On The Land!, received Theatre Eddy’s Top 5 Solo Shows in 2015.
Maryclare McCauley has been writing and telling stories for the past 15 years. She has a theater background that includes performing in contemporary, classical and science plays, circus work, improvisation and dance. Presently she is learning to play the ukulele and read with a kindle rather than a paper book! Practicing the ukulele is easier! (I know…it’s complicated)
Bill Zarchy circumnavigated the globe many times during his 40 years as a cinematographer, as chronicled in his memoir, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil. Now he likes to write novels and tell tales about his work and travels across six continents. His latest book is Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale.