Tell It On Tuesday

Stories

• Jeff Greenwald, excerpts from Strange Travel Suggestions
• Paul Sussman, The Boundary Lands
• Mark McGoldrick, excerpts from COUNTERCOUP
• Stefanie Goldstein, Blame it on the Bossa Nova (Part I)

Music

Jugology: A jug-style band featuring mandolin, ukulele, guitars and vocals. Christoper Richards, Michael Temerio, David Sullivan, Lindsay Dixon, Jeff Norman and Krishna Khalsa

Oakland-based Jeff Greenwald is the author of five travel books, including Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World, and an anthology called Scratching the Surface. Highlights of his 25-year travel career include creating the first international blog, celebrating Passover with Paul Bowles, and interviewing the Dalai Lama about Star Trek. Jeff serves as Executive Director of Ethical Traveler, a global alliance of travelers dedicated to human rights and environmental protection (www.ethicaltraveler.org). He launched his stage career in 2003 with a one-man show, Strange Travel Suggestions.

Paul Sussman developed his approach to melodrama and farce through many years of work in fianancial management with Bay Area nonprofit organizations. He has written and performed a series of solo pieces over the past 6 years, seeing the world through the eyes of road-ragers, insects, cooks, Anabaptists, and others who persist in the search for meaning in a puzzling world.

Mark McGoldrick is developing his new show, COUNTERCOUP, in which a head-strong youth with more energy than wisdom careens through life, crashing into other people, hard objects, and himself. Self destruction and rehabilitation ensue. Mark’s earlier full-length show, THE GOLDEN HAMMER, Wounds, Booze, and Forgotten Misconduct, ran at The Marsh in 2005 to critical acclaim. In THE GOLDEN HAMMER, Mark explored justice and truth in a dark and funny way through the stories of people enmeshed in the criminal justice system. He works as a public defender in the East Bay.

Stefanie Goldstein is a Bay Area actress, whose favorite appearances include Get it, Got it, Good in the SF Fringe Festival; John Fisher’s debut of Schonberg; and Mortified, the cult hit from L.A. She recently finished shooting the indie film The Snake and is involved in this year’s Bay Area One-Acts Festival. She began development of this piece under David Ford’s tutelage and hopes to find redemption (or vengeance) through its completion.

Stories

• Wayman Barnes, She Might Be Egyptian
• Maryclare McCauley, Where Yer From (Part I)
• Carolyn Doyle, A Gal’s Guide to Grief
• David Ponkey, Oscar and Etain

Music

The Simple Things, featuring Kaitlin McGaw & Ray Ruiz, vocals, bass & keyboard

Wayman Barnes has been published in The Funny Times, Comic Relief, Vox Populi, Digress Magazine, Ad Infinitum, and Fetus Noise. He also owns a cat that he is very allergic to.

Maryclare McCauley has worked professionally in many aspects of the theater during the past thirty years. She has been as an actress, director, props master, costumer, improviser and teacher. She began practicing the art of storytelling a year ago, under the direction of David Ford. Her hope tonight is for you to enjoy her piece and look forward to part II.

Carolyn Doyle is a member of the Z Space Writer’s Lab, Alternative Theatre Ensemble’s Work-Out series and a company member of PlayGround and Rough & Tumble Theatre Company. As a writer/performer she has been seen at The Marsh, the San Francisco Solo Festival and the San Francisco Theatre Festival. Additionally, she can be heard as a panel member on KZSU’s (90.1 FM) weekly radio program What Would Your Mother Say? airing on Thursdays from 5:00 – 6:00PM.

David Ponkey serves as a storytelling therapist for Sunny Hills/Children’s Garden group homes, and is a member of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum Storytelling Corps. David served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Storytelling Association of Alta California for six years, and is the recipient of three Marin Arts Council grants for storytelling with special needs students. His storytelling tape, Anything Can Happen, is the winner of a Parents Choice award.

Stories

• Brian M Rosen, Better Loving Through Chemistry
• Allison Landa, Andrea
• Erica Lann-Clark, Excerpts from Shopping for God
• Marijo, Fishtails: Mermaids Who Love too Much

Music

Rob Reich, Accordion

Brian M Rosen is a San Francisco based singer/actor/writer/composer looking for more hours in a day. He has performed with the Lamplighters, the San Francisco Symphony, 42nd Street Moon, the Punk Rock Orchestra, and Cinnabar Opera Theater. He runs an a cappella group called The Richter Scales. Please don’t hold that against him.

Allison Landa likes giving it up—she’s offered her body and soul at the Marsh Theater, Porchlight, and Inside StoryTime. She earned her MFA from St. Mary’s College of California and has just returned from a monthlong residency at the Julia and David White Artists’ Colony in Costa Rica. Allison lives on McGee’s Farm in Berkeley. www.allisonlanda.com.

Erica Lann-Clark who presents her Make It One for Baubo, is a former New Yorker, a storyteller, an actor, an award-winning playwright, a published poet and an alternative healer. She’d thought she’d stay in Greenwich Village forever, but then the ’60’s happened and Erica joined the migration of those who came west to find Paradise. She’s also a Viennese Jew whose family escaped to Brooklyn’s cultural hotbed where she grew up listening to the tales of a vanished world.

Marijo is an actor, storyteller, writer, director, and arts educator. She trained at A.C.T; has performed in theatre, stand-up comedy and storytelling. Marijo has toured her solo works throughout the U.S., Germany, London and Zimbabwe. Marijo is known as a Griot and Truth-Teller!

Stories

• Julia Jackson, “Turbulence“
• Sandra Niman, “The Wife’s Story”
• Kikelomo Adedeji, “Tolula”
• Steve Budd, “Losing It”

Music

Vanessa Lowe, guitar and vocals
www.vanessalowe.com

Julia Jackson is a comedienne and solo artist known for her biting social commentary, as well as actually biting audience members from time to time. Her solo performance piece Turbulence was selected for the 2006 San Francisco Theatre Festival, and the 2006 San Francisco Solo Festival. Julia appeared in the film Some Prefer Cake, and has worked with Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, and Paul Mooney.

Sandra Niman is the director of an after school program for homeless and formerly homeless middle school students in San Francisco. She has taught storytelling at Dominican University and the UC Berkeley extension and appeared at many festivals and events including the last Bay Area Storytelling Festival.

Kikelomo Adedeji has appeared onstage in London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco performing in orignial musicals, plays and her own solo performance. Kike’s full-length solo play, Tolula, currently in development, is directed by David Ford. An excerpt was performed at The Marsh’s Festival of New Voices in June 2006.

Steve Budd recently relocated from Boston and hasn’t looked back. He’s an actor, improviser, standup comic and writer. He’s studied Solo Performance with David Ford at The Marsh. Locally he’s performed as Joey Bishop in The Tribute at the Post Street Theatre, at Spud’s and a number of other comedy clubs, and with Lila Theatre at the Off-Market.

Stories

• Sarah Abbey, “Cheating”
• Neshama Franklin, “The Hippie Dance of Love”
• Sharon Eberhardt, “Primitive Arts”
• Paul Sussman, “Tis A Gift”

Music

Ira Marlowe, guitar and vocals

Sarah Abbey. Cheating is a work in progress based on Sarah’s experience and fascination with the weight loss industry. Sarah began developing this piece in Charlie Varon’s Solo Performance Workshop at the Marsh Theater this past Spring. Sarah has a BA in Theater, acting from UC San Diego. After many years of performing other people’s work on stage, Sarah is finding the process of performing her own work to be exhilarating and terrifying.

Neshama Franklin is a storyteller at Fairfax Library and has her own radio show on Point Reyes Station’s KWMR. In her spare time, she dances, hikes, and hangs out with her three beloved grandchildren. Neshama shared a shorter story with us earlier in the year—during our post-intermission improv—and now she joins us, presenting a full work for Tell it on Tuesday.

Sharon Eberhardt’s full-length play, Becca and Heidi, had productions at The Exit theater in San Francisco, Alleyway Theater in Buffalo, NY, and a staged reading at New York Theatre Workshop. Her one-acts have been in BOA, Best of Playground, Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater, And How! Theater, won a Moving Arts contest and finalist for the National Ten-Minute Play Contest. Primitive Arts marks her first time performing her own work. It is based on a true story.

Paul Sussman developed his approach to melodrama and farce through many years of work in fianancial management with Bay Area nonprofit organizations. He has written and performed a series of solo pieces over the past 6 years, seeing the world through the eyes of road-ragers, insects, cooks, Anabaptists, and others who persist in the search for meaning in a puzzling world.

Stories

• Zoe Sheli Sameth, “Safe Place”
• Arnie Warshaw, “Hey Santa—Gimme a Smoke”
• Jo Nemoyten, “The Real Cycle of Life with Sophie RainbowVision”
• Robert Pina, “Shadowland”

Music

The Swing Monkeys: Jeff Terlinger, violin; Kevin Smith, guitar, Betsy Stern, upright bass and vocals

Zoe Sheli Sameth, performance artist, writer and educator, shares her insider experiences of living in a war zone. “Sri Lanka Trilogy: Safe Place” wanders the maze of politics, relationships, and spiritual awakening. Zoe is a recipient of the Truman Scholarship, that funded the graduate studies inspiring her solo performance and youth work. Her support of continuing education for at-risk youth was honored as San Francisco’s Channel 5 “Hometown Hero.” Her website is www.zoeplanet.com.

Arnie Warshaw been doing theater off and on for about 18 years. He received an MFA in dramatic writing from Humboldt State University in 1994, and has previously performed in two of his own works: XTRA LARGE: A Journey Through the Layers of Fat and Buddha’s Secret Guide to Lower Cholesterol. Hey Santa—Gimme a Smoke was first performed in San Francisco last month as part of The Marsh theater’s Festival of New Voices.

Jo Nemoyten has been many things in her life: a musician, poet, stand-up comic, computer geek, and basically a very silly, smart and attractive person. She has been transforming into Sophie RainbowVision for over 12 years at various family gatherings, performance venues and cult meetings around the Bay Area. And now, Jo is bringing Sophie’s unique brand of middle-New-Aged Jewish Lady spiritual mishigas to Tell it on Tuesdays. Be prepared to get your aura cleaned and fluffed and your funny-bone relentlessly tickled.

Robert Pina was born in Texas and raised in Dos Palos, California. Robert discovered his passion for live performance at Stockton Civic Theatre. He later moved to San Francisco where he studied at the Jean Shelton Actor’s Lab with Jean Shelton, Christian Phillips and Keith Phillips. Robert has previously been seen in several Bay Area venues including Actors Theatre of San Francisco and the Marsh. Robert received the 2006 Theatre Bay Area CA$H grant award.