Stories
- Abe Bernstein, The Lion and the Rabbit
- Ginger Murray, Queen of the Nerds
- Elaine Magree, The Relative Value of Lives (excerpt)
- Deanna Anderson, The Wreck (excerpt)
- David Nihill, A Mother, a Son, a City
Music
The Lazy Governors: gypsy jazz, old timey and assorted surprises
About the Performers
Abe Bernstein was once a scientist, professor, and researcher, but then a genie transformed him into an actor, inproviser, and storyteller. Now he enjoys telling tales about things that never really happened, and pretending to be people he could never be in real life.
Ginger Murray is the editor in chief of Whore! magazine, a journalist and performance storyteller. An avid lover of bad girls, thinkers and radical idiots, Ginger has appeared just about everywhere and done just about everything, including a stint as talking head on the History Channel and a strutter upon the stage with the likes of La Pocha Nostra and Red Hots Burlesque.
Elaine Magree has written, directed or performed new work at The Marsh, The Magic Theatre, Z Space, The Working Women’s Theatre Festival, Brava, Exit Theatre, as well as many Theatre and Fringe Festivals. She has taught theatre at Solano College, SF City College, East Bay Center for The Performing Arts and in homeless shelters, recovery centers, and the Sacramento county jail.
Deanna Anderson is the program developer and a teaching/performing artist with StoryTeller Project, where she has delivered health, educational and performance projects to diverse populations, including incarcerated women and youth, children with developmental disabilities and teen moms. Deanna teaches dance, theater and movement classes at Stanford U and currently studies the art of mask and physical theater with Leonard Pitt.
David Nihill left Dublin, Ireland at the age of 22, got drunk on travel and never quite hit sobriety of it. He strongly denies being a comedian and is well aware most people don’t understand his accent. David is the founder of Comedy for a Spinal Cause and FunnyBizz Conferences, and author of the book, Do You Talk Funny.
With the The Lazy Governors, you might hear a gorgeous mandolin composition from the 17th century or an instrumental version of the Bee Gees’ “More Than a Woman.” You’ll definitely hear a wide range of early jazz and western swing. Sam Barnum on lead guitar, Geoff Boushey on fiddle, Russ Keil on stand-up bass, and Julian Gross on rhythm guitar and occasional mandolin.