July 26, 2005

Stories

  • Seth Leonard, “North American Rail Pass”
  • Sameer Siruguri, “What Am I Doing Here?”
  • Gillian Summers, “Crush-ed”
  • Terri Tate, “Shopping as a Spiritual Path”

Music

Esther Shubinski, solo classical guitar


About the Performers

Seth Leonard likes to have many irons in the fire. In addition to his recent venture into theatre, he is a screenwriter, traveller, poet, model train enthusiast, a computer programmer, and the creator of MatchFlick.com, an online film community. He resides in San Francisco, where he was born.

Sameer Siruguri is a computer scientist by training, who stumbled upon the world of acting while wandering about Silicon Valley in a confused and disillusioned way. He has been in a couple of musicals and a serious play, and has written two solo pieces. While his primary creative focus is on writing, he finds the performance aspect to be pretty exhilarating too.

Gillian Summers grew up in Liverpool in UK. She lived in Australia for 13 years, where she studied writing for performance at the University of Technology, Sydney.  She has lived in the bay area for three years and has recently been studying solo performance with David Ford at the Marsh, where this current piece was born.

Terri Tate is a down-to-earth inspirational comedienne. Her unique brand of humor shines hilarious light into the darkest corners of the human experience. She has visited those dark places, most notably during two near-fatal bouts of disfiguring oral cancer. Terri has re-emerged, committed to illuminating the way for others as they find their way to aliveness, laughter and passion. Terri shops for healing, husbands and happiness and discovers the life-giving power of discount shopping!

June 28, 2005

Stories

  • Randy Rutherford, “One Frigid Shiny Knight”
  • Todd Lejeune, “6th Grade Angel”
  • Dan McHale, “Will Draw For Food”
  • Erica Lann-Clark, “Shopping For God”

About the Performers

Randy Rutherford is a musician, humorist, writer, and an award-winning solo performer who has been performing and teaching for over 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked extensively with Goldie Award-winning playwright David Ford at The Marsh, Nina Wise and Cory Fischer at A Travelling Jewish Theater, Ruth Zaporah of Action Theater, and Arina Issacson at the San Francisco Clown School.

Todd LeJeune was born and raised in New Iberia. He moved to S.F. in 1995 with 500 bucks and a beat up truck in search of… well… he’s still trying to figure that out. Currently he is working on a one man show under the direction of David Ford at The Marsh. What influences his work? Making lemonade out of lemons.

Dan McHale is a Berkeley native who has worked in animation in San Francisco, Paris and Trivandrum (India!)  He also does illustration and song writing. His solo play, Meet John W.T.O., made best of Fringe in San Francisco 2001.

Erica Lann-Clark 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.