10th Anniversary Celebration!
Stories
- Jeanne Haynes, My Criminal and Me
- David Jacobson, Homecoming (excerpt from Dog’s Misery Swamp)
- Terri Tate, Tales of a Scintillating Sausalito Summertime Queen
- Wayne Harris, A Blues for Ruth
Music
Sandra Wieder with Richard Owen: singer/songwriter tunes, guitar, harmonica and vocals
About the Performers
Jeanne Haynes, a hybrid storyteller and solo performer, combines these two styles for telling and teaching. Venues for her original pieces exploring the serious side of life include SF Marsh, Brava! Theater, SF Theater Festival, Bay Area Storytelling Festival and her favorite: Tell It On Tuesday. Venues for tales on the lighter side are Bay Area schools, where she has taught this art to upwards of 3,000 students. Her students also include 300+ adults in ongoing Stagebridge classes. jeannehaynes.com
David Jacobson is more than 60 percent water and owes his life to the trillions of unsung bacteria that outnumber his own cells by 10 to 1. He performed his solo show Theme Park at the Toronto, Edmonton, and San Francisco Fringe Festivals. This piece is an excerpt from Dog’s Misery Swamp, being developed with The Marsh’s Charlie Varon and The High Dive’s Mark Kenward. David first performed at TIOT in 2008.
Terri Tate’s life and voice were threatened by two bouts of oral cancer from which she had a 2% chance of survival, but her sense of humor was never in danger. Terri’s hilarious solo show, Shopping as a Spiritual Path, has moved audiences across the country to laughter, tears and standing ovations. Terri teaches personal storytelling and solo performance in the Bay Area. Her memoir, A Crooked Smile, with an introduction by Anne Lamott, is due out in the fall of 2016.
Wayne Harris (storyteller) and Randy Craig (pianist) have been working on some new stuff; and now David Ford (director) is getting involved. Add John Mcardle (bassist) and you have an evening of soulful stories set on a pallet of blues and gospel music.
Sandra Wieder is a prolific writer and performer of original and unique songs that delight and touch audiences with beautiful melodies and heartfelt, poetic lyrics. With Sandra on guitar plus vocals and Richard Owen on harmonica.