Tell It On Tuesday

Stories

• Ginger Parnes, Paris Faux Pas
• Jan Friedman, The Committee
• Phyllis Dantzler, Pretty Little White Girl
• Wayne Harris, In the Garden of Gethsemane

Music

Mimi Heft and Friends: folk, jazz, a capella, blues

When Ginger Parnes was 3 years old, her brothers sent her on stage to sing at a movie theater talent show. They wanted her to win them a bicycle… and she did! Since then, she has been singing  (including 10 years with Berkeley Broadway Singers) and performing with delight when opportunity presents itself.

Jan Friedman, formerly a designer and author of a series of books on American eccentrics, embraced her retirement by joyfully exploring her own eccentric potential through improv and storytelling.  Plunging into a new world of senior dating and previously repressed sexuality, she developed The Committee with Marsh director Charlie Varon, first performing it last year at SF’s Monday Night Marsh series.  

Phyllis Dantzler is a monologist, stand-up comedian, writer, filmmaker, artist, and slacker extraordinaire. She lived the first 30 years of her life within spitting distance of where the Civil War started. She defected from The South in 1982 when she moved to San Francisco. Phyllis currently lives in Oakland with her two dogs, cat and five chickens.

Wayne Harris is an award winning solo performer, writer, educator, curriculum innovator and musician. A gifted artist with wide ranging interests, he has accumulated an impressive body of work over the years that includes 5 full length plays, presentations for schools, directing and designing for pageantry groups as
well as various musical projects. Wayne is also the director of The Marsh Youth program.

Mimi Heft lends her melodious voice to a wide range of music, from jazz and blues to a capella and folk. Whether presenting originals or songs by others, Mimi makes each her own deeply personal and resonant story. In addition to performing with her own band, Five-Legged Mule, Mimi has shared the stage with Joshua Raoul Brody, Myles Boisen, Three Drink Circus, Miniwatt String Trio, Mark Growden, Thad Povey, Delco, and others.

Stories

• Shelley Campbell, The Center of the Labyrinth
• Harriet Patterson, Sail On! (an excerpt)
• David Jacobson, Dog’s Misery Swamp (an excerpt)
• Penelope Whitney, Revenge 

Music

Deborah “DJ” Hamouris, singer and songwriter

Shelley Campbell is a mother, grandmother, writer, storyteller and bookkeeper. 

Harriet Patterson grew up in Texas where she developed a lifelong love of breakfast tacos and walking barefoot. She studied and lived in New Zealand where she fell in love with nature. She moved to California and discovered a love of nonprofit management, which is her day job.  And nearing 40, she found The Marsh where she (re)discovered her love of writing and performing.  She lives in the East Bay with her husband and cat where you can find her most weekends making breakfast tacos and walking around barefoot.

David Jacobson is a writer/performer and home to 100 trillion bacteria that collectively weigh as much as his brain. These crucial cohabitants may have subliminally suggested their co-starring role in his new “solo” show, Dog’s Misery Swamp. David’s previous show, Theme Park, which failed to even mention his microbes, went to a bunch of Fringe Festivals.

Penelope Whitney is not as psycho as she sounds on stage. Catch more of her stories at That Really Happened in Berkeley and Fireside Storytelling in San Francisco. 

Stories

• Lisa Rothman, Trolls in Yoga Pants
• Claire Isaacs Wahrhaftig Selma, Selma
• Kirk Waller, Stagger Lee
• Steve Budd, What They Said About Love

Music

Laura Austin Wiley, solo flute

Lisa Rothman’s first solo show, Date Night at Pet Emergency, ran for six months at the Marsh Berkeley.  When she’s not performing, Lisa teaches people to make presentations.  She recently learned more than she ever wanted to know about sinkholes and scabies.

Claire Isaacs Wahrhaftig is a retired arts administrator. She ran children’s programs a SFMOMA, directed a young peole’s arts center in Los Angeles, and directed the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has returned to her early love of performance.

Kirk Waller uses movement, music, song and the spoken word to transport his audiences to places far away and long ago. He’s director of storytelling at Stagebridge, former chair of the Storytelling Association of California, and on the Tell It On Tuesday Advisory Board… but his most prized possession and biggest accomplishments??? Eric and Elijah, his two sons!

Steve Budd is an actor, storyteller, standup comic, and solo performer. He’s performed with lots of Bay Area theater companies, including the San Francisco Playhouse, Impact, Marin Shakespeare, and Custom Made. What They Said About Love won Best of the 2016 San Francisco Fringe Fest. He’ll be performing the show in June at the Hollywood Fringe Fest.

Laura Austin Wiley plays flutes and sings with the Resonance Jazz Ensemble, which recently performed at Yoshi’s. She also performs with her own ensemble, the Laura Wiley Quartet. She has just released a new CD called Waiting for Rain, which is available on CD Baby. www.lauraaustinwiley.com.

Stories

• Carole Klyce, Life is a Riot
• Diane Barnes, My Stroke of Luck
• Hannah A. Taylor, Breed and Rescue: Part 1: A Child Needs A Home

Music

The BBQs: Henry’s Memphis Bluff Blues Quintet, featuring
Henry Klyce, Jim Semitekol, Joel Henner, Harold Shashi, John Eckstrom

Carole Klyce has stories that need to be told. With the help and encouragement of Ann Randolph, David Ford and Rebecca Fisher, she is going to tell them. This will be Carole’s first solo performance!

Diane Barnes is an actor, writer, storyteller and solo performer. Born and raised in New York city, she is a well-rooted San Francisco Bay Area 415 transplant. After a career as a physician specializing in diagnostic radiology, she discovered improvisation and the power of storytelling. My Stroke of Luck, developed at the Marsh with David Ford, and directed by Rebecca Fisher, has toured the US and Canadian Fringe circuit, and will be presented at the prestigious United Solo Festival at Theater Row in New York City in the fall. dianebarnes415.com

This is Hannah A. Taylor‘s first solo performance—something she thought she would happen decades ago, but she got caught up in “performing” her life’s work. Tonight, for the first time, she attempts her first solo, a work-in-progress. It’s a singing and performing outing… a solo performance musical. She has teamed up with David Ford (dramaturg/development), Ellen Hoffman (composer and pianist), and Marc Monserrat-Drukker (director).

Stories

• Karen S Ripley, On Line Funeral
• Ronen Sberlo, Get in the Elevator
• Daniel Ari, Scenes from The Trip
• Lisa Oglesby, The Smile

Music

Perry Dexter and Robert Riggle, acoustic blues and Americana music.

Karen Ripley has been performing for over 35 years as a comic and improviser. In 2005, she won the SF Fringe’s Best Musical Comedy with Annie Larson in the original play, Show Me where it Hurts. Her stand up is featured in Logo TV’s Wisecrack, episode 2. Her original show Oh No, There’s Men On The Land!, received Theatre Eddy’s Top 5 Solo Shows in 2015. 

Ronen Sberlo is a Bay Area native, and has been writing and performing for over 20 years. He is currently developing a solo show entitled Experts, Assholes and True Believers.

Mesmerized by language, Daniel Ari dives deeply into it through the craft of poetry. Besides reading his own works, he performs works by Millay, Yeats, Shakespeare, Boots Riley, and Cummings—and if the December is bleak enough, he does a mean Poe. He published two books last year, One Way to Ask and the Richmond Anthology of Poetry, both available from him, Amazon, and Norfolk Press.

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Lisa Oglesby now lives in Berkeley with her wonderful husband and two furry children. As a teacher, trainer and facilitator, Lisa has been telling stories for years. In the last year, she’s finally been able to tell stories just for the sheer joy of it and has started writing a collection of short stories.

Perry Dexter has sung and played guitar professionally all over the U.S. and Canada. He will be joined by Robert Riggle, an accomplished Bay Area musician, on vocals, guitar, slide guitar and harmonica.

Stories

• Mick Renner, Adapt
• Irma Herrera, Tell Me Your Name
• Toni Weingarten, Babe in the Hollywoods
• Bradley Paterson, Lack
• Pearl Louise, Shame the Devil and Pass the Nails

Music

Kadie Kelly (piano) Suzanne Yada (violin) and Ward Spangler (waterphone)

Mick Renner has been a professor of English, a technical writer, and an actor. In the Bay Area, he produced plays for Power Mad Productions; and he performed at the Berkeley Rep, Berkeley Shakes, and Eureka theatres. Adapt, which is set in the future, is the second full-length solo performance he has developed with David Ford. www.mickrenner.com.

Irma Herrera, a social justice activist, has spent three decades as a public interest lawyer, and a handful of years working as a journalist. A native of South Texas, she has resided in the Bay Area since 1980. She is now a playwright and solo performer of her one-woman show, Tell Me Your Name. www.irmaherrera.com

Toni Weingarten has written for TV news and magazine shows, documentaries, corporate videos, interactive CD-ROM, newspapers articles and essays. But these days she’s happiest when she delivers her words in person to real live people, like you!

Bradley Paterson is a writer and solo performer based in San Francisco. 

Pearl Louise: What can I say about me?… Well I like to perform and I found Mr. Ford, the best teacher ever, and he helped me with my plays and now I am here. YASSSSSS!

Kadie Kelly is a Bay Area pianist and teacher, inspired by storytellers and the piano music of Bach, Yann Tiersen, Helen Jane Long, Ludovico Einaudi, and Enya. Accompanied by Suzanne Yada (violin) and Ward Spangler (waterphone).

Stories

• David Caggiano, Gangsters in Freaky Land
• Eliza Gibson, Bravo 25
• Jeanne Haynes, My Mrs. Witte
• Doug Cordell, The Accidental Cop (Part 1)

Music

Randy Craig (Piano) and Wayne Harris (Vocals)

David Caggiano is a playwright and solo performer. David’s plays include: Walk Like A Man (Noh Space) and one-acts: The Arrival, The Tinker, and The Prophet (Soma Theatre). David’s solo show, Jurassic Ark, won Best of San Francisco Fringe 2012, ran for 5 weeks at the EXIT Theater, and sold out shows at the Edmonton Fringe.

Eliza Gibson is a writer and solo performer based in San Francisco. 

Jeanne Haynes celebrates her 20th anniversary as a storyteller with tonight’s performance. Impassioned by a Stagebridge storytelling seminar in November 1996, she abandoned her media relations business for performance venues ranging from Children’s Fairyland to Bay Area and SF Theater Festivals, and SF Brava. A schools resident artist, she has taught some 3,500 youth.  Her adult students number 400+ thru ongoing Stagebridge classes, plus private performance coaching. jeannehaynes.com

Doug Cordell is an Emmy-nominated writer, solo performer and public radio storyteller on Snap Judgment and Marketplace. 

Randy Craig has been around too long and written far too many scores for theater and film, but he still does it despite better judgment. Come see his band at The Marsh Cabaret in Berkeley on Wednesday nights. Randy always finds it a pleasure to work and hang with Wayne Harris, a musician, singer, solo performer and teacher who graces the TIOT stage regularly with stories and music.

Stories

• Albertina Padilla, Me and the Robin
• Sally Holzman, Grandma’s Golem
• Kiran Rana, Early Stories of Krishna, the God Made of Love
• Jeff Byers, Viskovitz, Dung Beetle
• Linda Wright, The Man on Liberty Street
• Harry Santi, Songs Have Been an Important Part of my Life

Music

Karin Sellinger, acoustic guitar

Albertina Padilla hails from the Central Coast of California. She loves long walks and hearing stories. Lots and lots of stories.

A newspaper ad brought Sally Holzman to the Stagebridge storytelling program. The experience of creating personal stories and the challenge of recreating the stories of others has enriched her retirement and hopefully brought joy to a wide range of listeners. 

Kiran Rana is a Sufi teacher and musician who, in the last year, has found great joy in telling stories that bring different parts of the world together.

Jeff Byers tells stories at the Asian Art Museum, on various Bay Area stages, and in classrooms, kindergarten through college. He’s appeared numerous times at Tell It On Tuesday and is happy to be back with colleagues from Stagebridge.

Linda Wright is a passionate and talented storyteller. She tells mesmerizing tales from around the world at museums, libraries, schools and daycare centers. lindadwright.com

Harry Santi has always loved entertaining and telling stories.

Karen Sellinger to is a local classical guitarist who loves to offer her music to add a touch of warmth and elegance to any gathering.
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Stories

• Sheila Stanfield, Connective Tissue
• Kurt Bodden, Craigslist Diaries
• Jan Goodman, The Kiss
• Jill Vice, A Fatal Step

Music

Vanessa Lowe, singer/songwriter/guitarist

Sheila Stanfield is a vocalist, voice teacher, writer and performer living the life of an intrepid optimist in the small town of Sonoma, where many know her name, her singing through life, her disappointments, her hopes and her dreams coming true. She loves to explore the clarity of her voice writing and performing her one-woman shows.

Kurt Bodden’s last solo show, a self-help satire called Steve Seabrook: Better Than You ran for six months at the Marsh. He has performed improv, standup, sketch comedy, and storytelling from the Edinburgh Fringe to the motel bars of Montana. Formerly an industrial designer, he’s now branching into User Experience Design (it’s a thing).

Jan M Goodman retired a year ago after 41 years of service in public education. Finally, she had time to more deeply pursue her interests in the performing arts, particularly storytelling, improvisation, and singing. The Kiss is a tale of obstacles faced on her path to love and romance during the Sixties.

Jill Vice is not only an actress, but a director and acting coach for many new and unusual solo shows (Elaine Magree’s Holding the Edge, Rebecca Fisher’s The Magnificence of the Disaster, Lisa Rothman’s Date Night at Pet Emergency and Marga Gomez’s Pound to name a few). Her previous one-woman show, Tipped & Tipsy was praised by critics and audiences for its performances at the 2013 San Francisco Fringe Festival where it won Best of Fest. Tipped & Tipsy went on to have an extended run at the Marsh in San Francisco and has been touring the United States and Canada ever since. JillVice.com

Vanessa Lowe has released 5 CDs of original music. Aside from being a performing singer/songwriter/guitarist, Lowe is an independent radio producer and mother to Finn, her own personal tree sprite. The East Bay Express pegged Lowe’s music as “dream-pop-meets-indie-folk”, and she doesn’t object to that description. www.vanessalowe.com