12th Anniversary Celebration
Stories
- Ellen Kaufman, Wake-Up Call
- Ron Jones, Naked Zombie
- Neshama Franklin, happy birthday from yelapa
- Houston Robertson, Victory for the Recycled Virgin (excerpt)
- Joshua Raoul Brody, Ruminations about a work-in-progress
Music
Sandy Noltimier (vocals, ukulele) accompanied by Joshua Raoul Brody (piano, vocals): standards, familiar and not so much.
About the Performers
Ellen Kaufman, after following a 40 year career in the health care industry, is now happily “rewired”. Although she’s been telling stories for years, she discovered storytelling as an art form in 2014 and finds it thrilling to explore her past through this creative lens.
Ron Jones grew up in San Francisco where he currently lives with Deanna, his wife of 50 some years, children, grandchildren, and a peaceful garden. He is the author of award-winning books and plays. Ron has trouble fixing things around the house and dreams of playing basketball. He shares a dark secret that explains the appeal of Donald Trump. www.ronjoneswriter.com
Neshama Franklin lives to tell and does so whenever she can: at the Moth (a grand slam winner), the Naked Truth, Fireside Storytelling, and Tell in on Tuesday—her 12th appearance. She works at the Fairfax Library, posts a biweekly blog of book recommendations and hosts a poetry show (both on the Marin County Free Library website), and has a biweekly radio show on KWMR’s “Turning Pages.” Check out her out on YouTube.
Houston Robertson calls herself an Octobabe. She’s a post-corporate, post PTA, and post-spousal woman who’s always wanted to be on stage. And now she is. Houston had a run of shows at the Marsh Berkeley in October 2016.
Joshua Raoul Brody is better known as an accompanist—for improv, tango, singers and comedians—than as a sole practitioner, but this is his second appearance on the TIOT storytelling stage. (Third, if you count a piece he did with Merle “Ian Shoales” Kessler many years ago.)