6th Anniversary Performance
Stories
- Ron Jones, “3 short stories about a gift, a talking bra, and being a grandfather”
- Paul Sussman, “Shelfspace” (excerpt)
- Margery Kreitman, “Payday at Pukalani”
- Judi Le, “So, What Are You?” (excerpt)
Music
Perry Dexter and Richard Rosen, poems and songs from Alphabetizoo
About the Performers
Ron Jones tells stories about growing up in San Francisco. He enjoys gardening, paddling on the bay, and coaching his granddaughters basketball team. Ron is the author of award winning books and plays. ronjoneswriter.com
Paul Sussman developed his approach to melodrama and farce through years of work in financial management with Bay Area nonprofit organizations. He has written and performed a series of solo pieces through the eyes of road-ragers, insects, Anabaptists, cannibals, and others who persist in the search for meaning amidst the puzzling evidence.
Margery Kreitman is a playwright and solo performance artist. She has performed her work at many Bay Area venues, including The Marsh, The Magic, The Plush Room, Theater Rhino, Exit Theater, and Venue 9. Her full-length comedies, one acts, and sketch shows have been produced in SF, LA and New York. She has taught Theater Arts at ACT’s Young Conservatory, The Academy of Art, The New Conservatory Theater, and privately for adults
Judi Le set out to write a book about her family’s journey to America before the fall of Saigon. By a twist of fate, ended up writing her first one-woman show, So, What Are You?, which was performed at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood. She’s looking forward to sharing her story in San Francisco.
Perry Dexter spent 9 years playing clubs across the US and Canada. For three of those he made it home for only nine days! Now settled in CA, he chants and plays for yoga classes in the Bay Area. Perry is now transforming some of the incredibly wonderful poems of Richard Rosen’s book AlphabetiZoo into song.
Richard Rosen wrote the first AlphabetiZoo poem way back in 1979, but didn’t officially open the A-Zoo gates until 2010. He’s the director of the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, and has written three books on yoga, with a fourth one on the way.