Tell It On Tuesday

Stories

• Marissa Keltie in “Letters to Annie Ernaux” by Brenda Liebling-Goldberg
• Ryan O’Donnell in”Jock Stock”, by Danny Thanh Nguyen
• Jarrod Quon in “Thomas Killing His Brother” by David William Hill
• Casi Maggio in “The Auditorium” by diana senechal

Music

Tango No. 9
Classic tango standards, tango Nuevo, and contemporary compositions with a tango flavor.

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Marissa Keltie graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Theatre Arts-Acting Option from CSUH, where she performed internationally as Viola in Twelfth Night for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  She has worked in various Bay Area theatres including Impact Theatre, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Playhouse, Northbay Shakespeare, TheatreWorks, and Magic Theatre.  She can currently be seen as Helena in Impact Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Ryan O’Donnell is an actor who has performed in Chicago, New York, and all over the Bay Area.  He is a member of both Shotgun Players and foolsFury Theatre Company, and was seen at Shotgun most recently in Ubu for President.  He also teaches acting with Berkeley Rep, and holds an MFA from DePaul. He is currently performing in Rabbit Hole with Town Hall Theatre.

Jarrod Quon has worked around the bay area for the past three years. He has worked with the Berkeley Opera, Shotgun Players, and 42nd St Moon. Most recently he was seen as Donalbain and Young Siward in Shotgun Players’ Macbeth and will be performing in Porchlight Theater’s Three Sisters

Casi Maggio is pleased to be joining this production. Casi graduated from Cal State East Bay with a BA in Theatre Arts. After CSUEB, she completed the 2 year conservatory program with PCPA. She performed internationally with CSUEB as Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Casi has performed with, The Willows (Annie, Evil Dead the Musical), Impact Theatre (Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Shotgun Players (Princess Buggerlas, Ubu For President), 42nd Street Moon, Active Arts, Berkeley Playhouse, Ohlone Summerfest, PCPA Theatrefest, TheatreWorks and Theatre Rhino.

Tango No. 9 — Catharine Clune on violin, Isabel Douglass on accordion and bandoneon, and Joshua Raoul Brody on piano playing classic tango standards, tango Nuevo by Astor Piazzolla, and contemporary compositions with a tango flavor.

Stories

• Michael Brown, “A Tale From Another Time”
• Catherine Goerz, “The Light That Never Goes Out”
• Jeanne Haynes, “The Stove Is White – Part IV”
• Ruth Fraser, “The Finer Points of Needlework”

Music

Stuart Rosh, vocals, guitar and harmonica

Michael Brown has been creating and performing original theater since the mid-Sixties, first in street theater in New York, followed by The Moving Men Theater Company in Berkeley. In the last ten years he has written and produced several full-length plays, including his current solo show, Memories and Dreams of the Twentieth Century: stories and a couple of songs, which just received a CA$H Grant award from Theatre Bay Area for expanded performances.

Catherine Goerz is a San Francisco-based writer and solo performer.She has been dressing up in outlandish costumes, speaking in strange accents and conducting social experiments since she was a little girl in New Jersey. Catherine has studied with Christine McHugh and Ann Randolph and is currently developing a new show under the guidance of Charlie Varon. She has performed at the Marsh Theater, in the Thursday Night Combo at EXIT Theater, and at the Noh Space at Theater of Yugen.

Jeanne Haynes, inspired by a Stagebridge storytelling seminar 12 years ago, abandoned her media consulting career of 30+ years to become a full time storyteller, Bay Area schools artist in residence, and teacher of Stagebridge’s adult classes. Originally created with David Ford at The Marsh, “The Stove” is a personal story about crossing the racial divide.  Now in its 4th year in the making, Haynes says, “My motivation to further develop this piece increases with each performance.” 

Born into a household rich in language, literature and oral history is it any wonder Ruth Fraser became a storyteller! For 12 years, she has told stories of wit and wisdom from around the world and her own adventurous life, sharing them in gatherings large and small, including parties, conferences and the Asian Art Museum. Offering workshops and coaching she shows others that they too have stories to offer the world.

Stuart Rosh, tells stories and happens to set them to music.  Elements of blues, R&B, jazz, and swing provide the backdrop to tales of grown men and women grappling with love, children, politics, and a funny and tragic world that sometimes just plain doesn’t make sense.

Stories

• David Pokorny, “Based On a True Story”  
• Jennifer Jajeh, “I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You” 
• Lee Granas, Japanese Music Ensemble 
• Carolyn Doyle, “Good Grief; Confessions of a Peanuts junkie”

Music

Hobohemians Boxcar Band
Hank – Guitar, Bass & Vocals 
Two-Ply – Guitar, Bass & Vocals 
LuLu Haiku – Vocals, Bass & Mandin
Ms. Ruby Von Kirsch Saenger – Vocals

Dave Pokorny was able to quit his day job, and make his living as a stand-up comic. He toured the western half of the U.S. for nearly ten years, opening up for such talents as Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Bob Saget, to name a few. After becoming the house emcee at San Francisco’s #1 comedy club and a regular at the Riveria in Las Vegas, he gave it all up to pursue a lucrative career as a stay-at-home dad.  Seven macaroni & cheese filled years later he returns to the stage performing excerpts of his autobiographical solo piece, “Based on a True Story.”

Jennifer Jajeh is a San Francisco based actor who has appeared in numerous film and theatre productions on both coasts. This August she debuted her solo show,  I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You, at the New York International Fringe Festival. The show is currently being redeveloped for a full run; and Jennifer is grateful to Tell It On Tuesday for this workshopping opportunity. 

Lee Granas is excited to perform with Tell it on Tuesday. After returning from watching Equus on Broadway and studying the great Daniel Radcliffe, she is now ready to make her Bay Area debut. Lee has previously performed in such locations as her friends’ kitchen, the office water cooler, and BART. Lee is grateful for everyone at the Laguna Writers Workshop who encouraged her to bring her stories to a wider audience.

Carolyn Doyle has performed as a writer / solo performer at The Marsh with the Marsh Rising series, CounterPULSE’s Words First series, the SF Solo Festival, Thursday Night Combo at EXIT Theatre, the SF Theatre Festival and with Tell It on Tuesday! Carolyn is a member of the Artists Development Lab at Z Space and is slated for a three-week run at The Marsh with her full length piece, Confessions of a Refrigerator Mother.

Stories

• Elana Isaacs, “Sweet Honey, Pdx”
• Howard Petrick, “Harold” – excerpt
• Jean Ellisen, “Fiji or Bust!”
• Nato Green, “Low-wage work and my ego”

Music

Vanessa Lowe, singer/songwriter/guitarist

Since Elana Isaacs’ former life as a theater major at Syracuse University and graduate of Tamalpa Institute for Expressive Arts Education, she has been focusing on solo performance and art that sparks dialogue, and delighting in her work with youth, creativity, and social justice. Two of her favorite roles are Buddha’s mom, Lisa, in a rock-musical-modern-retelling of Siddartha, and “The Fun Crazy Aunt” to 3-year old Lucian. Please sign Elana’s mailing list to stay tuned about the temporarily titled Whiteness: Unplugged of which “Sweet Honey Pdx” is an excerpt. Big thanks to Kamau, his classes, and the support of my anti-racist artists/friends!

Howard Petrick has performed at The Marsh and the San Francisco Theater Festival. He has studied with David Ford and Ann Randolph. This piece, a work-in-progress about a small-town kid with an accordion, was created with Ann Randolph at The Marsh. He is grateful to Tell It On Tuesday for providing a stage to bring this story to you.

Jean Ellisen has been telling stories all her life, but doing so on purpose for the last 17 years since her Certification In Storytelling from Dominican University in San Rafael.  She has long standing tenure with the corps of storytellers at Asian Art Museum in San Francisco where she tells myths, legends and folk tales. She also draws from her life experiences (and calamities) for stories of a personal nature.  She is a teller, a teacher, and mentor, who finds great delight in helping others find their voice through storytelling. 

San Francisco native stand-up comedian Nato Green was featured in SF Sketchfest 2008, has been heard on KALW 91.7FM, KSRO 1350AM and Green960AM, and as the Official Comedian of Stephen Elliott’s Progressive Reading Series. Nato has established an SF comedy institution in Iron Comic®, his Iron Chef-spoofing game show, profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle. He also produces Laughing Liberally Local 415, an ongoing political comedy showcase, Laugh Out the Vote, and the New Jew Revue.