Stagebridge Partnership Performance
Stories
- Terry Stokes, “Spare the Rod”
- Susan Goldstein, “Women’s Studies”
- Al Paltin, “Dream Makers and Dream Breakers”
- Dana Chernack, “Sigor Ros in the House”
- Karin Werner, “A Day in a Life”
- Kirk Waller, “The Legend of John Henry”
Music
The 3-Sixties: Tommy Shea, Susan Liroff and David Sturdevant sing golden rock and doo-wop with great harmonies
About the Performers
Terry Stokes has been telling stories as a Film Editor in Hollywood until he retired a few years ago. Having been told that he was a natural, he’s been telling stories orally at swaps and workshops throughout the Bay area since moving to the bay area several years ago.
Susan Goldstein is an enthusiastic participant in Stagebridge classes and performing arts day camp. She is a retired college teacher of Psychology and Women’s Studies who discovered storytelling as a way to have listeners without having to grade papers. Last year she told the story of “Loving vs. Virginia” at TIOT.
Al Paltin has been involved with Stagebridge for nearly a decade. His is most interested in Vaudevilles, Musical Theater and Storytelling. Al has been in over 50 plays, musicals, and comedies. Al Paltin loves storytelling so much that if he’s not careful he becomes so immersed in the story that it takes him to another place and time… and if we’re lucky, we get to go too.
Dana Chernack has been a pirate and a poet, but never a pawn or a king. He claims to have an alien ancestor (on his father’s side). He has been married 40 years (to the same woman!). The Chernacks have two grown children, neither of whom has spent a day in jail! Mr. Chernack refuses to get a tattoo.
Karin Werner began a life long love affair of stories when she got her first library card in Cody, Wyoming. Many library cards and stories later, she reaches back into memory and myth to create her own personal style.
Kirk Waller, the Director of Storytelling Programs at Stagebridge, the nation’s oldest senior theater company, teaches storytelling classes and plans storytelling events and programs throughout the local community, in schools, senior facilities, conferences and public venues. Kirk’s passion is telling stories to anyone who will listen. He has appeared at storytelling festivals, schools, businesses and various venues in the bay area and beyond.