San Francisco Theatre Festival Performance
Stories
- Sigal Shoham, “Dr.Amelia’s Medicine Show”
- Neshama Franklin, “The Hippy Dance of Love”
- Dave Pokorny, “Based On A True Story”
- Jeanne Haynes, “New York! New York!” excerpt from The Stove Is White
- Carolyn Doyle, “Good Grief: Confessions of a Peanuts Junkie”
About the Performers
Sigal Shoham has been a performer and theater-maker for over 10 years. This is her first solo creation. Recent works include two original ensemble pieces with A Traveling Jewish Theater, one that toured nationally. Sigal is also a mediator and teaches conflict resolution with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication.
Neshama Franklin, a young mother, dancer, and quasi-hippie signed up during the Summer of Love to help show tourists real hippies in full flower. As she lived to tell the tale, she’s been telling stories for two decades, still dance, work in a library and read omnivorously, and has a radio show in West Marin.
Dave Pokorny made his living as a stand-up comic for over a decade, traveling all over the country opening up for such talents as Ellen DeGeneres and Jim Carrey. After his first daughter was born he decided that life on the road was no way to raise a family, so he left the business. Thirteen macaroni & cheese-filled years later he’s back to tell his story.
Teller and teacher Jeanne Haynes’ venues include The Marsh, ODC Theater and Noh Space at Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco; Julia Morgan Theatre and Ashby Stage in Berkeley, Bay Area Storytelling Festival, regional Telebrations, KPFA-FM Berkeley Public Radio and schools throughout the Bay Area. She teaches weekly adult storytelling classes at Stagebridge, Oakland, and conducts senior workshops. As an artist in residence she has taught the art of storytelling to some 2000 students in 17+ Bay Area schools.
As a writer / solo performer, Carolyn Doyle has performed at The Marsh with the Marsh Rising series, CounterPULSE’s Words First series, the SF Solo Festival, Thursday Night Combo at EXIT Theatre, the SF Theatre Festival and with Tell It on Tuesday! Carolyn is a member of the Artists Development Lab at Z Space and is slated for a three-week run at The Marsh with her full length piece, Confessions of a Refrigerator Mother.