Stories
- Jeremy Greco, Keeping Up With the Jorgensons
- Mark McGoldrick, The Golden Hammer, Wounds, Booze, Forgotten Misconduct
- Patricia Farrell, Hostage
- Ruth Halpern, Grandma Elsie Loves Lists
Music
Boundless Gratitude: guitar and vocals, musical storytelling
About the Performers
Jeremy Greco’s first solo show, With Held, played at the the SF Fringe Festival, as part of the Marsh Rising Series, and at the Marin Fringe Festival, where Greco won a Best Actor award for his portrayal of mail artist John Held, Jr.
For a day job, Mark McGoldrick has worked as a Public Defender in Alameda County for over 20 years, representing poor people enmeshed in the criminal justice system. He has staged two full-length performance pieces at The Marsh: Countercoup (2007) and The Golden Hammer (2005). He is currently re-mounting The Golden Hammer. On the side, he likes to go places and do stuff, eat dinner with his wife and watch his kids grow.
Patricia Farrell is creating a solo musical play called Hostage. She has performed as a clown, singer/songwriter and gamelan musician. She used to create animated musical stories for children. In 2013, she released an album of songs entitled Yes and No.
Ruth Halpern has been a professional spoken word performer for over 20 years. In addition to personal stories, she tells traditional folktales, and improvised stories made up on the spot. She hopes that at the end of her story, you’ll say, “Oh, Ruthie dear, that was so stimulating!”
Boundless Gratitude is a grandfather who used to entertain his children with homespun musical stories. When his children grew up and moved out, he had to learn to tune his guitar so that he could play for other people, which he has been doing for about seventeen years now. He has written about a hundred original pieces and about the same number of interpretations of various standards, mostly ballads, and continues to study music. He is just completing a major creative project that has kept him away from performing for the last three years, and is also in the process of re-interpreting, re-recording and re-issuing a number of his earlier works.