Stories
- Lauren Crux, “THREE”, an excerpt
- Kate Frankel, “The Learning Curve”
- Audrey Dundee Hannah, “Workhorse”
- Tim Ereneta, “Happy Endings are Overrated”
Music
Paul Bregman, piano
About the Performers
Lauren Crux was a late bloomer in the performance world. She started her performing career seven years ago, and gone on to write and perform four solo shows, which have been produced at various venues in northern and southern California. She received a Bay Areas Theatres CA$H grant for help in the development of her new solo show, THREE, a risky, irreverent, and curious look at the things that keep us awake at night. Her work is political, poetic, and abundant.
Kate Frankel has been storytelling all her life, and recently began work to recreate her gradual awareness of the social problems that led to the Civil Rights movement. Her story, “The Learning Curve,” draws on a San Francisco childhood with no awareness of discrimination, working in Harlem, a short trip to the South, and back to Berkeley in the ’50s before Berkeley was BERKELEY.
Audrey Dundee Hannah is an actor, writer, and teacher with a passion for Karl Marx and sock puppets. Luckily, that hasn’t stopped directors from casting her in film, on stage, for print modeling, and for voiceovers. She is a graduate of Stanford University’s Department of Drama.
Tim Ereneta’s varied performing career includes a stint as a singing dinosaur at Lawrence Hall of Science and originating roles in new works by MacArthur fellow Mary Zimmerman. For 10 years he was in the mainstage company of San Francisco’s BATS Improv troupe, making up stories spontaneously. Currently developing a repertoire of traditional tales to tell to adults, Tim is the recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Award for 2006, given to an outstanding performer in the early stages of a storytelling career.